Natale the green and red betta has finished his antibiotics. :)
His hospital tank no longer looks like an old-skool toilet filled with blue water (remember 2000 flushes?); the medicine looked like blue ink and it dyed the water the same color as the lid-- but it worked. I think the fin rot has stopped and he's perky and swimming around. Yay! That cheap weird stuff saved two out of my three fishies! Go toilet cleaner! ;)
Yesterday, IALI was concomitantly exhilarating and exhausting...but all amazing events are. The media panel I spoke on was lively and there were so many Qs waiting for our As, we ran out of time, which is always nicer than hearing crickets.
I got to meet Suja Lowenthal, who was my girl crush back in '01 when I was writing my thesis-- and I hung out with Manish "Vig's" college friend Mini Timmaraju...our table at the banquet at Indique Heights was hilarious and dravidian-- Andhra, Kerala and Half of TN reprazent (well, one of us was a Pallakad Iyer...whose family is split between both states). Anyway, it was a blast and the food was decent-- but it was hot. We were out on the terrace and it's August. That was...fun. ;)
I enjoyed myself so much, I started to wonder why I left politics...then I remembered how much I like being able to pay my rent and how I love my current job and I was all, "eh". Could've, would've, should've. :)
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