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From last week...

Yesterday I got hooked up with an Event Monitor. I have an undiagnosed condition that can causes me to 'drop'. I just pass out mid-conversation. It's very exciting. It's happened to me at least 10 times in the past 15 years. I haven't had an episode in 10 years so I just thought it was due to puberty or something.

Last month I dropped at the Hideout. I'm very angry that I passed out during a show at one of my favorite places.

I've been cleared neurologically and gynecologically. My cardiac workup doesn't look so good. My dad has a condition that required him to get a pacemaker. It looks that I might have something similar. I am currently the youngest person in the the waiting room @ the Northwestern Cardiovascular Clinic - trust me. I wear a monitor the size of an iPod during all waking hours. I'm supposed to push a button when my heart feels 'weird'.

Friday I have to go to have 2 echocardiograms. This involves me not drinking caffeine for 12 hours. I don't think I've lived w/o morning coffee in 16 years.

Then I get the big stuff. Tilt tables and an EP test (basically a cardiac cath w/ shocking your heart to make sure it beats right).

My favorite part - I'm 31 years old. I am single for the first time in 10 years. My marriage ended last September and I've spent the last 10 months taking care of ill family members and trying to rebuild my life. I have a great new job, a new cute boy that I see once a week and my first apartment of my very own.

A 31 y.o. indie rock girl w/ a pacemaker isn't very sexy, is it?

Listening To Arthur Lee Records...

RIP.

Thank god CL isn't letting me post right now.

Lets Get Out of This Country

So much to say - however I want to link to a really good story.

2 Missing in Heat Wave

This is good journalism. 2 people who need help made it to the first links of the Trib this afternoon. I hope they're found. We always need to look out for our cool old ladies and disabled kids. I like that their names are 'Britt' and 'Mee Chee'.

Oy - need to post a Pitchfork review - later. Work is killing me. It was Eh.

Camera Obscura got postponed to Monday b/c the Logan Square electrical transformer blew up...whoops. However went on Monday and it was fabulous. Partied like I was 23. Lotsa beer, Horchata (?), tromping around the city in my heels, doing dirty things with the cute boy...a really good night.

What else? Sis & her boy couldn't make it on Sunday b/c he got food poisoning. OK. Haven't heard from her all week either...I don't get it. She is so not cool to me anymore. She tried to tell me stuff about the ex again. I had to shoot her down with a 'I saw him on Sunday' I think I know about this shit. New boy actually has a control freak theory about her. Might be right.

Have plans for the next 6 days and work is getting crazy outta control. Need to stop blogging, start working - right?

Things to play with - Carl Monday, Top Gear, Deadspin in General, etc...