personal political

post-op

• About 600ml of fluid (" a kind of dirty colour", said the doc) was drained from the cyst on Friday.

plan c (aka plan a)

Um, there is no clot. It was an artifact.

the good the bad and the complicated

The bad - co-parent's coat was stolen from her car today, with her wallet, digital camera and iPod Touch in it. 

present tense

I seem to have something wrong with my ovary.

circs

There's just been a huge HIV/AIDS conference in Mexico, which I didn't see any mention of in the media here (though that might indicate more about my non-reading of the Australian media than about what they publish.) A friend of mine attended from England, though as she's not back home yet I haven't heard her account. But I came across this discussion of the anti-circumcision booth at the conference - there's been a move (largely from the US) in recent years for male circumcision as a counter to HIV transmission in Africa. This discussion neatly summarises the phallacies in that position and there's a link to a webcast of the anti-circumcision session at the conference.

crowned

After the root canal, comes the crown.

lost and not found

A few weeks ago I lost my reading glasses.

I'm still not entirely convinced that they are irretrievably lost. I wore them last thing on a Sunday night when I was on the computer. I then walked the dog down the street to the nearest tree for his bedtime toilet (about 20 seconds walk), walked back and went to bed. I think I had the glasses on my head for that walk. In the morning, they were gone. I usually have them on my bedside table but they weren't there. It was a public holiday so no one was around when, at 9.30am, I retraced my steps to the tree to see if they were lying on the ground. They weren't. I think the chances of them having been taken by a passer-by are very remote, as it was a very quiet public holiday morning (and besides, who would take such a pair of glasses? If I came across an obviously lost pair, I'd leave them, thinking the owner would come looking for them.)

mind body

I continue to watch my menopause process with interest.

Every woman will know that cycles are affected by both conscious and unconscious events/incidents/processes. But as my cycles wind down, I've been losing that sense of connection.

exercising while the world burns

I did three yoga classes this week and yesterday I finally made it to the outdoor heated pool which goes with my new borrowed free gym membership and swam a kilometre in 30 minutes and got out and felt absolutely fine - not even tired. So I'm feeling pleased with myself.

I realise I haven't kept to my post-every-day-in-June intention and I realise there's a lot of serious stuff I should be blogging about, but I have an exam on Monday so won't be posting much before then.

yoga

I went to a new yoga class yesterday. Today I'm very sore, but in a good way.