Still alive

So I think I've developed an intolerance for nuts...which is brand new and highly unpleasant. Had some cashews on Sunday and Monday I paid for it, oh how I paid. Had my beloved Rama Thai with peanut sauce last night, and I got little sleep and woke up in serious pain. I called in, dropped the sisters at the train station and curled up fetal in bed until about 11. That seemed to help (though I suspect the not eating was what helped the most), and today it's all Gatorade all the time and a lot of doing nothing at all.

My digestive tract has become my worst enemy, this sucks so very, very much.

Well that's...convenient

odogoddess just sent me this:

Enron founder Ken Lay dead of heart attack

By Matt Daily

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay died of a heart attack on Wednesday, six weeks after being found guilty of fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

Lay, 64, was awaiting sentencing later this year and was expected to face decades in prison for his fraud and conspiracy convictions in the Enron collapse.

"Ken Lay passed away early this morning," Lay family spokeswoman Kelly Kimberly said in a statement.

Lay and another former Enron CEO, Jeffrey Skilling, were found guilty of hiding the financial ruin at Enron, the company they built into the seventh largest in the United States. Enron plunged into bankruptcy in December 2001.

Lay, once a confidant of former President George H.W. Bush and dubbed "Kenny boy" by President George W. Bush, often appeared fatigued during the four-month trial, but there was no indication that he had suffered any adverse health effects.

Given the number of lives he gleefully ruined with his avarice and general lack of human decency I can't say I'll be shedding any tears.