In the ongoing quest to find out why I have had a headache in one very specific place for over 4 years, I have a scan on June 9. I got the referral way back in April and never bothered calling, but for the past week the pain has gotten worse and started spreading to other parts of my head, which has never happened before. So I called. Yikes. With any luck my doctor will turn out to be right, and it’ll just be a pesky benign mass clogging up my sinus. Here’s hoping.

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I went to a reading by Kelly Link last night, which was part of the Bookslut reading series. She told us this ghost story, and said she has been trying to spread it around. So I thought I’d help her do that:

There was this girl (I think she might have been from Texas, but maybe she didn’t say that) and she kept having a dream that a man was walking towards her. She couldn’t see his face clearly, but she knew that when they met something terrible would happen. One night, she had the dream again, so she tried to talk to the man. “Hey! Who are you?” “I’m Sammy.” The girl woke up and was so scared she couldn’t go back to sleep. So she went into her sister’s room, and said, “I just had the scariest dream and I can’t go back to sleep. Can I sleep in here with you?” Her sister just said, “Sammy.” “How do you know Sammy???” “I don’t. You just brought him in here with you.” The girl turned on the lights and saw her sister, asleep. She shook her awake and asked again, “How do you know Sammy? Why did you just say that to me?” “I didn’t say anything to you. I’ve been asleep!”

The girl never had the dream again.

I must admit I don’t really get this story, but the way Kelly told it was kind of chilling. Plus after the reading my friend Amy turned her phone back on (she had turned it off for the reading). Her wallpaper and ringtones were different than before the reading. Now I call her phone Sammy.