I’ve been feeling this weird sensation in my lower left abdomen lately. Always happy to substitute a web site for consultation with a trained professional, I described my symptoms to WebMD. The closest match seems to be “Irritable Bowel Syndrome.” While I’m not impressed by the lack of details of why or what the condition actually is, I suppose it was comforting at least to know that someone (drug companies, I suspect?) has given my mild discomfort a name. And at last I can stop fearing I have tapeworms.

Unfortunately, there is not much listed in the way of treatment for IBS, and the only real suggestions were to reduce stress and avoid caffeine. So it’s sad to hear there’s nothing I can do about it. Believe me, if I could just make stress go away, I would. All this evening I had a strange sensation in my forehead where all the muscles were sore from a combination of tension and lack of sleep. I’ve ground away one side of rear left molars. I’ve tried using a mouth guard, but that just gives me something to chomp down on, and I’ve nearly chewed through it after a week.

All of which is strange, because I’m remarkably unstressed. Though it hasn’t launched yet, BrevityTV is humming along, starting to resemble the idea I had in my head when I started it. And when you get pretty shots like the one below from our shoot this morning, what’s to stress about?

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