A Small Collection of Unrelated Things

[rsadelle]

New Email
I've joined the gmail revolution. You can now reach me at rsadelle at gmail. I think I lose cool points for still using my email client (SeaMonkey) and IMAP instead of the web, but it's a step toward being cool.

Two Decades Is A Long And Wonderful Time
This fall is my and allegram's twentieth friendiversary. I don't know the exact date we became friends, but I do remember the day. Allow me to quote from the speech I gave at her wedding:

The year is 1989. Our fourth-grade class goes outside for dramatic play, where we act out what we've been learning. We've been studying the Maidu, Chico's local Native American tribe, and today's exercise is hunting, which is mostly just a way to put an academic guise on a game of tag. Four girls stay behind in the village. We're stairstepped in age - I'm six months older than Laura, who's six months older than Erin, who's six months older than Karen. We create our own backstory where we're four orphaned sisters living alone.

Erin and I chose to be sisters from the very first day of our friendship. Our group of four expanded and contracted over the years as we met new people and went to new schools, but through it all, Erin and I have continued to choose to be sisters.

Happy friendiversary, chosen sister!

How To Stop Eating Chocolate In One Easy Step
My dermatologist is treating my acne as acne-rosacea, and since caffeine can be a rosacea trigger, I thought about giving up caffeine. For the most part, that wouldn't be an issue - I don't drink coffee, tea, or caffeinated soda. However, I was eating a lot of chocolate, and seriously craving it.

Then I got a migraine. I don't get the headache part, but I do get the weird visual aura thing. This only happens every once in a while (maybe a dozen times over the last ten years or so), so it's mostly not a problem. The last one, though, annoyed me because I was trying to read a story before I went to bed. So instead I read up about migraines and found something that suggested lack of magnesium might contribute to migraines.

I know you're wondering what migraines have to do with chocolate. Here's the connection: it clicked in my head that I'd read something before that suggested chocolate cravings during PMS are really the body wanting magnesium. So next time I was at the drugstore, I picked up some magnesium and started taking it with lunch every day.

It's been about two months or so, and I haven't had chocolate since. It doesn't even look particularly appealing. Amazing.