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Do you clean with your bare hands? Do you actually have contact with the traveling public? I'm willing to bet that you're in more danger going to Walmart than you are going to work at the moment.

Ghostie, at this moment, you're in more danger of dying from plain old seasonal flu, and that's not a joke, it's a fact. So take the standard precautions - get a flu shot, practice good handwashing, avoid crowded venues like malls or clubs whenever possible, and tell people who are sick to stay the fuck away and not touch your stuff.

November 2004

OK. I'm done.

You got your freebie. Now you can either consult a real life credentialed professional or Google it yourself.

You get one question; after that I'm on the clock.

Actually, it's 1000mg/day. Long term use can cause kidney damage and increase the likelihood of heart attack, stroke, or GI bleeding (it can also cause GI bleeding if taken on an empty stomach). You'd be better off getting clinical advice that doesn't come from an anonymous message board.

Pfui.

Make sure that your carbon monoxide detector is working.

Given the choice between a full-on chair and an icy sitz bath in the middle of the night, I'll take the chair every time.

Smile pretty, and remember to leave the seat down.

The Smurfs. When I was in nursing school.

What brought this on? I can barely find stuff now, and you want to go fucking with things?

RIP to the man who inspired my daughters to sprint in stilettos

Orgasm.

And I am Spartacus.

Hey, can I judge again? I promise to behave and not be snarky if somebody refers to 40 degrees as "frigid" again.

The Old Testament was a good read (minus Leviticus and Deuteronomy, of course, although even they have their interesting points). Lots of murder, pillage, politics, betrayal, and treachery presided over by a god with more than a touch of narcissism. You can keep the New Testament - bunch of spin built around a guy who, if he actually existed, was just another Jewish dissident in a time that was rife with dissidents and messiahs.

Oh, good - I re-read that and Claudius the God every winter. Kind of like a visit to and old friend; the really fun thing is that, in my head, Claudius' voice isn't Derek Jacobi, it's Terry Jones (or some years, Graham Chapman) in drag.

I'm in, and 100 sounds good. 1) I, Claudius by Robert Graves (annual re-read - do I get to count that?)

NextGen is probably the best place to start. DS9 and Voyager were spin-offs. (TOS is still a lot of fun, though, if only to see analog readouts on a ship that can go warp speed, and to see James T. Kirk bone half the galaxy without coming down with cosmic herpes.)

Get it checked out - it could be a hernia, it could be a cyst, it could be a lipoma, it could be an alien implant...

The voices always count.