So last night I took my new Giant Vitamin From Hell, the one I'm supposed to take at bedtime, but instead took it with dinner. I had taken it with dinner the night before and was affected by no side-affect, so I felt that it was safe enough to take it at that time again.

My doctor had said that it could make me flush, that's the term she used, flush. Now flush sounds like you get a bit hot and red-faced, doesn't it? She also said that the fairer you are, the worse the side-affect gets. Now, I'm pretty paper-white, but let me take this opportunity to advise Melissa never to come within ten feet of these pills, or she will burst into flame.

What I am leading up to is that my flush was no flush, it was a full-on hot flash. A real menopausal-type hot flash. I knew, of course, that it wasn't really that kind of hot-flash, that it was the flush that had been warned me, but boy o boy, it was something else.

Hot-flashes, by the way, are hideously mis-named. The word "flash" gives the impression of something very sudden that goes away just as quickly. Well, mine lasted two hours. Two hours!

It started in my face, traveling down my body for about forty minutes, it was at full strength for another forty minutes, then receding for the last forty. And that middle forty was something else, let me tell you. It was like being too close to the fire, but you can't get away, because the fire is inside of you. Cold packs didn't help much, either. Well, it'll be nice in the winter, if nothing else.

I call Mom, whose personal menopause hadn't a single hot-flash and made me think that I never would have one myself before being put on Niacin, absolutely a heater in a pill, and she told me that once she was put on vitamin B and the same thing happened to her, but it stopped once her body got used to it.

I sure hope that happens to me, because it's like having prickly heat, and frankly, I'd rather have the cholesterol. Tonight I'll take it right before bed and hopefully I'll be asleep before I turn into a kiln.

Yesterday the new show opened, and my God, it's long as the, um, day is long. Two and a half hours! The first act alone is an hour and twenty minutes!

Admittedly, I can leave after the intermission is over, which means that I can go home at 9.30p, and most of the time I can spend reading, but I cannot stand a show as long as all that.

In what universe should a first act be nearly an hour and a half long? Not mine, that's for sure.

I haven't watched any of it yet, but Wednesday may be the best night of TV, there being Lost, Veronica Mars, CSI: NY, Hawaii, and Law and Order. I'm almost afraid to watch them, in case something sucks. Hawaii sucks a little bit, but it's good enough, so if nothing else is worse, it'll still be the best night of TV.

Yesterday I caught up with AB, Julie, Elle, Nancy, and Diane.

It's actually a good thing that this week's show is so damn long, or I'd never read another library book again!

Today's horoscope:
An impulsive energy is currently in the building, capable of inspiring you to change your heart's direction in a moment's notice. Yes, this does mean that you might bump into someone who'll pull you off course. But how wonderful!

One year ago today:
Omar said to me, "No man is worth it," but what he didn't get is that it's not about him anymore. It's about me.

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