Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2025

  • Review: You, final season [No spoilers]

    Now that I’ve finished the final season of You on Netflix, I’ve been trolling YouTube for extra nuggets and I’ve found that theactor who plays the lead character is not fond of the lead character. I remembered my husband stopped watching early in because he was not fond of the lead character. Based on those…

  • Coffee Talk

    I saw something lovely at the Starbuck’s on Tuesday morning. There were ten men in the seating area, and two women. The men were all paired up, and every pair was deep in conversation. Like, really talking. Not just complaining about the Cardinals or rejoicing over the Blues. Pethaps I’m looking at it through a…

  • Walmart

    This sign was in the Walmart. Granted, it was a fancy West County Walmart. But I suppose it’s possible that they have this service available in all the Walmarts. A Walmart chiropractor seems oddly specific. Perhaps it would make sense in a highway town where the Walmart is the only business for miles. (When I…

  • TWIL: baby elephant snack foods

    Not just me … This past week St. Louis learned what baby elephants snack on. If you don’t want to click the listen button, I can just tell you. It’s poop. They snack on their mother’s poop. They aren’t born with gut bacteria, so they have to ingest it somehow. This seems like something i…

  • My brief time as a live figure drawing model

    A Facebook Cracked article made me remember how, in the 1940s, my father swam in the nude in his gym class at Normandy High. That was a thing public schools did, back in the day. Thankfully, girls didn’t have to do that, and they phased that out for boys before I got to high school.…

  • A day out on my own

    I have had enough of being home-bound, getting things for Gary, turning on fans, driving to appointments. So today I bolted. I said I was going to Walgreens to pick up a prescription for him, but I was going another place first, so it might take a few hours. I made it sound like an…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/24/2025

    This week the Art Book Cover went from this: … to this.

  • Blood draws

    This liver number kerfuffle is keeping me busy. The lab at the nearby hospital is remarkably quiet, and I’ve got the whole thing organized so it only takes 45 minutes from when I leave to when I return. At the end of the three blood draws in the last week, and one the week before,…

  • Appetite

    There is a show called Man vs Food, and it is devoted to following a host who signs up for eating challenges. Quite often those challenges follow the format of “Eat [X amount of food] in [Y amount of time] without [throwing up / leaving the table / dying].” The host would generally put an…

  • Medical updates

    Remember when I was in that Supernova clinical trial to help make the next generation of monoclonal Covid antibodies? It sounded good at first, but now this article in The Lancet suggests it’s going to fail just the same way as the previous generation failed: the virus is mutating faster than we can make antibodies.…