Better living through pharmaceuticals

Before we get into the latest health debacle, here is a public service announcement: NPR is streaming the cast album of the new musical Hamilton for free before it's available to buy (Friday on iTunes). And you should totally go listen to it, because it's Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alexander Hamilton and hip-hop founding fathers, which totally should not work, but it's fantastic and frankly would have been worth puking my way through New York to go see it a few weeks ago (though fortunately I did not have to, because it was during my 10-day non-puking window, more on that later). 

Hamilton is the most talked-about musical of the year, and it's totally going to win all the Tonys, and it's sold out for months, so back in July when my theater buddy Christi suggested we get literally the last two available tickets for Labor Day weekend, I figured hey, why not? Maybe I'll be better by then. Which was foolishly optimistic, but again, no puking so it all worked out, I guess, and I'm really glad I got to see it.

So go listen and be jealous that I've seen it.

( And now the health )