aftermath

either the barium sulfate they made me drink or the contrast dye they injected via IV for my CT scan yesterday really did a number on my intestines. it could be that they use nutra sweet as part of the flavoring in the barium sulfate suspension. nutra sweet and i do not get along. or...my body is just getting rid of these foreign substances the best way it knows how. bleah. i feel completely emptied out, and abdominally uncomfortable--enough so, that i'm cancelling the run i had planned for this morning. hopefully i'll be back to normal tomorrow.

p.s. wiki says that an abdominal CT scan doses you with 5.3 mSv of radiation, versus 0.2mSv for a chest X-ray. that seems like a lot to me...

damn

i am obsessed with david bowie's "starman." i can't stop playing it, over and over. it is a work of pop music genius.

i have it on a greatest hits collection (best of david bowie, 1969-1974). glaucon tells me the rest of the ziggy stardust album is also that good. i know i like a bunch of the other songs, but i haven't heard the whole album. i'll be buying that this weekend, i think.