I checked my archive last night and I've posted about seven times this year. I've been reading my flist only a couple of times a week. It's been Carnival season for weeks now, and I didn't pull the Mardi Gras icon out until this weekend. Ummmm, hi guys, how are you? What is the BEST THING you have seen on the Internet recently? <333

I'm no longer sick, since I managed to fight off another relapse of Return of the Son of Death Flu with Zicam and ecchinacea, but I still made a doctor's appointment in the next couple weeks because even if I'm not currently sick, I've been sick four times in three months and I've done something unpleasant and painful to my lower back and idk, I'm a mess and it needs to stop.

However, other than that things are okay and it's getting warmer and it's almost Mardi Gras, and so I'm feeling all festive even if I am far away. Last night was Krewe du Vieux, marking the beginning of the Mardi Gras Uptown parades. My roommate and I celebrated this morning with Mardi Gras Brunch (and $1 blood orange mimosas) at the New Orleans themed restaurant near our apartment. 12 days until I go to New Orleans! I would like to be there now, but I'm comforting myself with the knowledge that by the time my favorite parade rolls Friday March 4, I'll be on the parade route.

I'm having a really good weekend that has involved midnight cult movies (this week's was a 70's 3D porn called Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy 3D, which...was an experience) and a Drive-By Truckers concert with inlovewithnight, sionnain and likeaduece that was AMAZING (&fangirls;) as well as Mardi Gras Brunch, and in a couple of hours it's going to involve showtunes karoake because three-day weekend!! It has also involved an awful lot of drinking. I've been calling it my Mardi Gras Dry-Run weekend. It hasn't been that intense at all, but I have been attempting to answer the all-important question of "Do I still have sufficient stamina to get me through Mardi Gras weekend?" The unfortunate answer seems to be, "lolno, probably not." :( So next weekend is Detox to Retox weekend, which will kick off Detox to Retox week, during which I plan to spend the entire time sleeping (when not at work, anyway), drinking things filled with electrolytes, and physically and psychologically preparing myself. I'm out of practice, obviously, and Mardi Gras is a marathon, not a sprint.

Otherwise...I'm still watching all of the television and enjoying most of it, though the closest I get to any real fannish feeling is still probably Pretty Little Liars. I would make a list of everything I watch, but then I might feel a little pathetic. There is also dramatic and hilarious work stuff happening, I just can't think about work right now.

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