So, get this, I am sick again. I had a sore throat for over a month -- it began toward the end of January, and I went to the doctor some time around the beginning of February to get antibiotics. The first course of antibiotics did nothing, so after a couple of weeks during which I was hardly at home and began to develop a cough and fever, I went back to the doctor (who diagnosed sinusitis, tonsillitis, and bronchitis) and got some really fancy antibiotics. On the night of February 26, during a Trivial Pursuit game in which I went from being dead last with no pie pieces to WINNING, YES, all my usual energy and charm and sparkling vivacity come back after having been in exile for a fortnight. And on Friday, I realized that, for the first time since at least January 25, my throat did not hurt. In your face, bacteria! And then what happens? Saturday night, just hours after I tell my brother on the phone that I am finally, finally well and he offers to send me Tom Waits' latest album as a reward, I start coughing. And coughing. By the way, this is on the 9th day of the 10-day course of heavy antibiotics. The past three nights, I have not slept for the coughing and the wheezing and the rattling and the fear that my TB-positive roommate has infected me, despite *his* antibiotics. But today I got prescription cough medicine with codeine, and I can't wait to take it before going to bed. Bliss. I'm also daring my infection to turn into pneumonia. Go ahead, I dare you. And I'm also, in keeping with the old Sorabji covenant, putting off writing my application essays to post here. God bless this site.

And, um, I want to report that when I looked at the title of this thread after I searched for new posts, it first looked like "10 cocks in 6 months."

Those were the days:)

I would say that ten cocks in six months is Much better than ten colds. Perhaps I am going out on a limb here.

Depends on the cocks.

Damn Spider, that sucks. It was weird -- Monday here was a really warm day out, really beautiful, and I was outside a lot. The next day, the temp dropped from like 60 to 20, and snowed like crazy, and I started feeling a little run down, scratchy throat etc. It seems like every time the weather changes from hot to cold or vice versa, I get sick. Don't know why that is.

LOL spider, you probably have a dkylseia? huh ? hahahahahahaha.It too often I had one, At first, it looks like but it do not exist,something painted on mind before I comes to a full conclusion.

Bummer, Spider. Get well soon. I was sick a while back, and now I've been coughing up lung butter for weeks. My coworkers must be ready to strangle me. Hot drinks seems to help. The rattling breath and itchy lungs are getting old. In recent evenings I've been ensconcing myself on the couch and watching episode after episode of downloaded Star Trek, both the original series and The Next Generation. The old ones are a hoot.

Speaking of Star Trek, I thought this was pretty funny, translating the Bible into Klingon: http://klv.mrklingon.org/

i don't know from treklingcons. i just hope everyone gets rid of their respective dkylseias and comes to a full conclusion before something painted on mind appears to take over with 10 cold-cocks within 6 months. that sounds like dragsville, man.

same thing happened once we put the lil monkey in daycare spider. she's had a runny nose for 6 months now. just use your sleeve. the others wont care.

Blessed cough medicine with codeine. I slept well last night, but sadly, I have to take the medicine during the day, too, and now I'm zombie-like. Good thing the kids have music class now and I can rest and visit here. I am so, so excited because I won an ebay auction for the entire Twin Peaks series on VHS, plus the pilot episode and "Fire Walk With Me," and it arrived at my house yesterday. I have to wait until tomorrow to start watching it because some of my roommates want to see it, too, and the anticipation is killing me. But one of my roommate has, like, 20 VHS tapes of Simpsons episodes and today on my lunchbreak I got to watch my beloved "Mr. Sparkle" episode, and that has made my day.

Patrick, daycare sucks, and that is one big reason why. For some reason those daycare centers tend to pass illnesses from one person to the next and it is a constant battle. I went through it with Hayley. I stayed home with Micki, but that was necessity, though given a choice I would have stayed home anyways. Just keep your eyes open for when it changes from needing to wipe her nose or take her in for a bacterial infection. Sometimes they are sick so long it is hard to tell the difference. I'd watch her for you so you wouldn't have to worry about that, but I'm too far away.......I really need my baby fix, I'm going to go mad!

well. at the same time, being exposed to these otherwise mild semi-constant colds is good for her immune system. i think even if we could afford personal daycare, she gets tremendous socialization skills by being with peers her age. a runny nose is one thing, we can usually tell when she's not feeling well because of an infection.

Good. I got one of those schools where every bacterial infection got passed around like 150 times. Not to mention my crappy ass Kaiser health care that kept feeding her antibiotics for ASHTMA for pete's sake. Private daycares vary. I would always make sure that Micki had other kids around close to her age, but that was just me. My nephew is in one with about 7 kids and he gets social interaction and all that, but I don't like the woman, a balding redhead missouri single mom named Zena....she just bugs me. Good luck.

To: Spider From: Gee for a moment I thought you said "...plus the pilot episode, 'Fire Walk With Me,'..." and I tsk tsk'd at the screen. then I read more clearly, saw the "and", and I was comforted. How could I ever have doubted you?

We've watched the pilot and the episodes up to #7. I'm so excited that I've gotten two of my roommates hooked! *squeal* We're going to watch episodes #8 (in which Ronette has a flashback of Laura's murder) and #9 (in which Maddy has a vision of BOB crawling over the couch) together tomorrow night, and I'm so happy that my roommates are writhing with anticipation after seeing the 1st season finale (#7) and are dying to know what happens to Cooper after he's been shot. This is so much fun.

*obligatory family plug* I think I've mentioned this before, but: Spider, my aunt, Charlotte Stewart, is in Twin Peaks. I forget who she was, but she was a relatively important character in the earlier part of the show, apparently. She's kinda blonde. And stuff. So look out for her. I keep meaning to re-watch the series, actually.

platy- Betty Briggs imdb.com says she's been in lots of things..... She was on Coach?!?! awesome.

what's so awsome about coach? except for Jerry Van Dyke, of course. I have finally completed viewing of the first season of Battlestar Galactica which kicks so much more ass than I had ever thought it would! Plus it features Callum Keith Rennie (who is hot, but not in this roll), and John Mann, of Spirit of the West!

I'm just happy because the new season of the Shield started last night. Woot!

I think watching all the old 60s episodes of Star Trek is starting to get to me. Last night I dreamt of having a romantic encounter with Leonard Nemoy. I'm just thankful it wasn't Shatner.

I Tivo'd the first 2 episodes of Deadwood on Monday night. Haven't watched them, but looking forward to it.

i've recently sloshed through almost all the episodes of the various seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm. dumping Direct TV was probably the best thing ive done related to entertainment in some time. i dont even have bunny ears to get basic local tv.

i've recently sloshed through almost all the episodes of the various seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm. dumping Direct TV was probably the best thing ive done related to entertainment in some time. i dont even have bunny ears to get basic local tv.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is good stuff. Except his wife is a total bitch.

the early seasons were really awkward to watch because of her. i couldnt figure out why the casted her. but her improvisation has gotten better and of her character has developed. in more recent seasons im ok with her. she plays a good role and has her moments, though she is generally annoying. my favorite character is the ex wife of larry's agent, the mega bitch. larry is like homer. he's constantly losing, but everyso often he comes out a winner.

i like that show because it's mostly about Larry trying to deal with customs and obligations that he is too casual to care about, and learning what happens when you don't do things just right. It would be a good show for immigrants to watch as they try to fit in to north american culture, so they can learn about every tiny little pointless bullshit custom we have regarding social interaction. One that sticks in my mind is in the 3rd season where he and the bitch are out to dinner with some friends and the other couple pays. Larry thanks the husband for paying. The wife asks why he didn't thank her too. Larry says it's because the guy paid for it on his card with his money, because he works and the wife doesn't. The woman demands that it's still "their money" and not just the husbands. Larry disagrees. All hell breaks loose. The show is a marvelous conversation starter. I love Larry.

right, thats a good one. doesnt he inadvertantly get his agents daughter drunk in that episode too when she drinks larry's wine nstead of the glass of grape and ultimately thats how he gets their dog, because the girl is drunk and then takes to the family he promised a dog to, the same wife he insulted, the one he refuses to apologize to for implying her money is her husbands? jesus, just typing that quick plot out you realize how god damn convuluted the shows are.

...which brings us right back to Twin Peaks. Convolution, thy name is David Lynch. Platy, I remembered your aunt played Bobby Briggs' mother....that is very cool. We get (for free) satellite TV, and I love it because I can watch all the excellent British crime dramas on BBC America, like Waking the Dead and Wire in the Blood. This new show, The Long Firm, about the British mob, has just started but I haven't been able to catch it yet. It looks real good, though.

My favorite episode of CYE is the Wagner one. That one is fantastic. "you want to see my penis?"

I'm still watching Star Treks. I made it through the original series and I just finished with season 4 of The Next Generation. The season finalie revealed the romulan played by woman who played Tasha Yar. Then, "To Be Continued". I tried to watch Star Trek the Motion Picture last night, but I lost consciousness during the tediously long approach to the mysterious cloud.

I could never get a grip on that whole Tasha Yar-Romulan thing. It makes my brain hurt. TNG is on twice a day, I'm really getting back into it. I have a new favorite character in Data. Originally i didn't notice how much of a bastard he is most of the time :) It scares me that i can identify most episodes just by the little intro before the title. Sure i watched the whole original run when it was on, but that was a long time ago. I can only imagine how much usefull info all this Star Trek knowledge is taking the place of in my head. And i hate to love the real cheesy episodes that are right out of a bad sitcom, but in the FUTURE! So it's different! Like the one where they have some transporter accident where Picard, Guinan and that bitch ensign Ro get turned into children. And their uniforms still fit. That's a big LOL. But you get to see lil'Picard throw that fit to see Riker- "I want to see my father! I want to see him now! NOW NOW NOW!!!" Ah, it was a good day in the living room when that episode came on. Oh and how Data's brother is named Lore. Get it? GET IT??

I have a friend who's studying physics, astronomy, cosmology, and that sort of thing. I love to tell him about the mysterious futuristic things and watch him twitch. When he comes over to watch with me, he keeps saying, "But..." I just watched the one where that Leutenant falls in love with Data, only to figure out that (gasp!) he can't love her back. She gives him this tearful goodby, and he sort of shrugs and pets his cat. I love it when Worf gives people romantic advice. The most painful episode so far was the Season two finale that's just a flashback montage of every major scene involving Riker up to that point. And ever since they killed off Yar, they keep dangling the possibility of some character leaving the Enterprise, but then they always change their minds. Oh no! Worf resigned his commission! Oh no! Riker has been offered a command... again! It's great. I sometimes watch as many as four episodes a night.

any episode written around deanna troi is the worst. does anyone really want someone around who can tell what you're feeling all the time? worst of the worst is the one where she falls in love with a scottish ghost or something. "dinna blow out the cahndle!" blech. every episode of tng was basically a featurette of why a particular character is cool. the deanna and beverly episodes are the worst. most of the geordi episodes were also lame.

Awww, god. I'm laughing and Rowlfe has no idea why. And it's too nerdy to say I'm giggling about Star Trek. Anytime something goes wrong outside the ship, i just assume they're going to shoot a tachion beam at it. And i'm usually right. Or a tachion field. Or a tachion pulse. I just start cheering for the tachions, and eventually there they are. I don't know what that stuff is, but it's mighty effective! It's a stupid fucking soap opera in space. And i LOVE it. Memories- the one where the other telepaths are on the ship and Troi gets mind-raped, over and over. that awful scary nasty one where Worf's kid runs off with Troi's mom to some "free spirit" colony on the holodeck and it's like a bad children's tv show with rainbow coloured jugglers. Then at the end they all learn a valuable lesson about responsibility and the importance of fun. Then they all have a mud bath together, and the camera pans around to show that even *SHOCK* Worf is in the mud! hahahaha!!! Zany!! the one where Famke Janssen (Jean Grey from XMen) is a space whore and falls in love with Picard accidentally. Oh, will he succumb to her space whore charms?? the one where they're stuck in a hotel/casino in the 1940's in period costumes. Holy shit. the one where Q is fucking around and they go through most of the episode in Robin Hood costumes. Jesus. Was there a western one? I don't want to think about it.

There was an old west one.... they were at an arechaology dig or something and discover Data in the dust. I don't remember the details.

it was his head, just his head. And Guinan knew it meant the end of the damn world or something but she wouldn't talk about it and she was being all vauge and pointless. It went on forever. I forget the point. It was great when they got rid of Guinan.

temba, his eyes open!

I met an astronaut and he told me that all the space boys watched Star Trek but he could have been just joking because he sure did like to joke more than most earthbound people.

Oh and Spider - drink gallons of green tea laced with ginger. Or not. But it makes you feel much less like your head is going to explode.

1. TNG is my favouritest of all the Star Treks. 2. I can usually tell what episode it is by the first five seconds alone. which is pretty interesting, considering the first three seconds are bound to be an exterior shot of the Enterprise. 3. It was Crusher who fell in love with the ghost, not Troi. 4. The old west episode you may or may not remember was where Worf and Alexander were on the holideck and something went wrong, resulting in numerous evil Data's. 5. I AM THE TNG QUEEN. I have no shame in this matter. 6. I saw Agatha use a list earlier, and I developed list envy. hence the list! 7. I am in love with the episode where Data builds a daughter. And the episodes were Picard gets tortured by the Cardassians. And the episode where the Borg first appear. And the episodes where Picard is made Borg (although I was always confused by the fact that he had an actual Name). And I love the one scene were Worf asks Riker's permission to date Troi. tee hee hee! Good times! 8. I am the proud owner of a t-shirt which reads "KHAAAAAAAAN" across the boob area in big bold letters. it came from Television Without Pity. Yes, I know it's TOS and not TNG, but it goes on the list notwithstanding. 9. Some prof. at York University has recently developed a rudimentary sort of holideck. We are on our way to the future, people!

oh, god, you're right. it was beverly. the women on that show were all shallow and vapid. except 7of9. i liked the data's daughter episode, too. and the torture one. i never liked ryker. i think it's because i never liked the actor. different actor, maybe i like him more.

I have a Starfleet uniform. You fucking heard me. (red first officer, just like Riker's) (nerd fight!!!)

Shaka, when the walls fell. The worst character, worse than Geordi or that other doctor lady who was only on for a season....Dr.Pulaski. anyway, the worst character is O'Brien. Maybe he was better on Deep Space Nine, I never got very far into it once he showed up. But it's like they just built up his character because every other major crewmember on the show was eternally single. So they needed a married guy in there somewhere to really tug at the heart strings and to do lame "family" plotlines. And fuck Keiko too. Every time something goes wrong she just happens to be there, and O'Brien would look up from his control panel and make sad eyes and say: "Keiko......!" That was his whole character- worried blue collar family man in space. Dude, fuck that. But the one where Worf had to deliver her baby is classic. CLASSIC WORF: "You must wait to have your baby at a more convenient time." I'd just like to mention the episode where the whole crew becomes addicted to that eye-mounted game, and Ashley Judd saves the day.

Worf was the best, period. now, back to work. but we need to see a photo of wisper in her starfleet uniform.

Starfleet! Starfleet! Starfleet! I always thought Deanna Troi was pretty and TNG was awesome. Then again, I was young enough to name a My Little Pony after her. At Christian Camp, the director's Starfleet shirt disappeared on the first day, only to reaapear on the flagpole on the last.

Heh. Make it sew

What the hell does O'Brian do in the transporter room all day? He doesn't even have a chair. Temba, his arms wide.

I also have a red starfleet uniform, although it no longer fits me. So I guess I could be the pudgier Riker for halloween. or the pudgier Wesley. I always find death on Star Trek to be so interesting, because when a major character is in Danger of dying it's such a huge tense deal. but when the actually do die it's so incidental. Both with Tasha and Dax - their deaths just seemed like a small part of their respective episodes, and only seemed to have more impact in later episodes. There was none of the usual death scene garglings you find in other dramas. poor O'Brian. I liked him.

Me & Gee, why red uniforms? because the yellow dudes work too hard, and the science officers are just boring. Another horrible character is Dr.Bashir. I think he was supposed to come off as a pretty boy, but he wasn't pretty enough. And like 3/4ths of the crew on Voyager. Does that go without saying? Is it as universally hated as i think it is? I almost feel dirty watching that show. It's quite weak, i think.

I've seen very little Voyager. The two or three episodes I've seen just didn't do anything for me. And I don't remember a thing about them. They left no imprint on my mind whatsoever.

I have a friend of mine from high school who was a HUGE trekkie. Well, he still is in many ways. He had just finished a course on womens studies at college when Voyager started. He kept saying (over and over and over and over) "The first time they have a female captain and they name the show after a minivan!" It really drove me nuts after a while. But he didn't watch the show, which suprised me. The one I really couldn't get into was Deep Space Nine. I just couldn't stay awake. It just bored me. But I watched Voyager a lot, though 7 of 9 really pissed me off. It was like watching that lame soap opera that you have watched your whole life and even when it sucks you are still stuck to the tv like glue.

I often end up watching Voyager because it's on Space right after TNG. I think it was either Space or Spike TV that used to have this awesome block of JUST star trek, they'd show an episode from each series back to back. Now it's just TNG and Voyager. I always end up watching Voyager because the little thing before the title, as Eri said, glues you and you need closure. But the ride to the closure sucks balls. It really is a shitty show. I don't care about a single one of the characters. The doctor guy is acting his ass off and they still manage to make him annoying. I feel bad for the guy. 7 of 9 is the only watchable thing.

i had the major hots for kes. she has a sexy voice.

next to Enterprise*, Voyager was the weakest of all the Star Treks. It was kind of sad and annoying to see them recycle stories from the previous Star Trek's over and over, and the cast - dear God, the cast. I didn't care about half of them. Paris? Whatever. Torres? meh. Kim? Just fucking die, already. The doctor was awsome, but I was sooo not a fan of what they ultimately did with him and the whole holigraphic life form storyline. *Enterprise should not be spoken of. in so many ways, it never ever ever even felt like Star Trek.

the Vulcan guy and Chakotay are so bad they're unwatchable. And don't even get me started on Neelix. The episode yesterday had him in a bridge crew meeting. Yes, let's hear what the cook has to say. oh my it's awful.

nerd fight? i'm pretty sure that this could up the nerd fight ante a notch

I like the big zit on data's cheek

i can't tell who the other two people are :(

Nor can I.

theoretically it is cmdr tucker and lt reed

you people fail as trekkers.

I'm only well-versed in Original Series and Next Generation. Does that make me old-school?

Troi. I call her Lt. Obvious. "Captain...I'm sensing higher stress levels than normal among the crew". Yes, Lt. Obvious, they are all about to die unless Data comes up with a solution in 5 seconds. Thank you.

Worst Star Trek actor ever: Kate Mulgrew. I would have watched Voyager but she's such an awful actor I couldn't. She was their second choice as captain, but still that's no excuse. I thought Enterprise was great compared to that. Marina Sirtis is a close second for worst ever, Lt. Obvious...and she's NOT pretty, give me a goddamm break, yeesh!

And let's not forget that Betazoids *conveniently* can't read the minds of most key species like Ferengi and Cardassians. And Troi is only HALF Betazoid, so she's even weaker. Useless. Which reminds me of the one where Troi, O'Brian and bitch ensign Roe are stuck on the bridge and have to keep the ship from being destroyed. So Roe is being in charge until O'Brian points out that Troi (the ship's guidance conselor!) technically outranks both of them for some god damn reason. And Roe looks like she's going to shoot Deanna at any moment. Had the saucer portion of the ship exploded at that moment, it would not have been a great loss to the crew. I'd like to add another shout-out to the doctor on Voyager, who was wasting his life in that roll. He was really talented.

Voyager doctor (actor name Picardo?) was great, but I couldn't stand the nausea from having to look at Mulgrew every few minutes. Seriously, if you were Picard how could you stand Lt. Useless-Obvious following you around all day, and sitting next to you on the bridge even! Go to your office and psychobabble somebody, you're not even hot so why am I talking to you!