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[dragonlady7]

start finding problems, fingers crossed this time i don't fucking. forget how to start it., about the author

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just ate the whole post i’d written.

well, tl;dr i am driving out to rochester tonight to meet friends so i can’t leave the farm too learly or too late so instead of doing something useful i’m wasting time, and apparently completely wasting time because tumblr likes to eat posts. thanks.

i have a horrible upset stomach, i somehow ate several meals in a row of entirely familiar foods in normal amounts and have wound up just in cramping agonies of nonsense, so making a long drive may prove to be more fraught than normal. can’t wait, so great. i actually felt poorly enough that i did not help with flower harvest yesterday morning. also i broke out in a rash on the undersides of my forearms. so it really seems like i ate something i’m allergic to but i have no known food allergies and if anything have had a more restricted diet than normal, since the one Greek Orthodox crew member is on a two-week fast in honor of the Virgin Mary so we’re all eating vegan at lunch because we like him and see no reason not to.

I’d suspect something like giardia or cryptosporidium but I ate alongside everyone, I do most of the least-filthy work on this farm, I do not tend to taste food as I prepare it so it’s not like I’d’ve eaten something less-cooked than anyone else, and nobody else is sick.

(I’m actually slightly self-conscious as a cook; I realized I often make things without a recipe and then don’t even taste it prior to serving it, and then I put it on the table and I’m like “this might need salt or pepper or an entirely other suite of seasonings, I have no idea whatsoever” but like. i feel like i’m constantly cooking for this farm crew that just puts hot sauce on everything and never cooks anything for me in return so i am having motivation issues. Friday when I was sick I just drove to the store and got a couple loaves of cheap sandwich bread and some potato chips and we had tomato-and-cheese sandwiches, and the vegan guy had peanut butter. But hey I do a mean “legumes plus as many types of vegetables as I can physically cram into it” Random Vegan Mush dish at this point.)

(Thursday’s fatal lunch was red lentil daal with coconut milk… and beets and beet greens and swiss chard and green beans. served over mashed potatoes made without dairy and with olive oil instead. i cannot imagine what of this could possibly have set me off.)

oh also i have an infected salivary duct? did you know this could happen? i have had them be blocked before, decades ago, so I do know for sure what that weird lil bit of oral anatomy is, but this one is like– swollen and hurts and feels raw and looks grody. so who knows! that’s miserable! i dont’t even know what you do for that? mouthwash? don’t say doctor, i have no idea how to even go about attempting that. argh. (which doctor? i know, i know, you go to like five and they all take your copay and say “oh you gotta go to a specialist for that” and it’s more phone calls than anyone can manage and in the end the problem goes away on its own. that’s been my medical history, anyway.)

so generally this week has been a tiring one, but this is fully typical of august, and i feel like i’m spending a lot of my real life being The Cheerful Or At Least Philosophical One, so I’m just being a complainy bitch on here, thanks y’all for your patience. (Your picture was not posted)

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[harpers_child]

A salt water rinse twice a day is my dentist's general advice for mouth infections. I'd take something anti-inflammatory as well.