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I went to the doctor yesterday, and had my ear flushed the fuck out with pressurized water and peroxide. It was every bit as unpleasant as my traumatic childhood memories would indicate, except I didn't scream, I'm a big boy now so I just tensed and shook and groaned as silently as I could manage and told the nurse to keep going when she wanted to ( Read more... ) -
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I do believe I'll be going back to school soon, everything is going amazingly well, and that makes me nervous. I think I shall call this "other-shoe-syndrome" the inability to maintain optimism in the face of all positive evidence. -
Hell's Autumn
Taking a walk outside, what's most striking, aside the heat, is the vegetation. It may feel like summer, but it looks like autumn. The grass is an amber hue, and crunches underfoot like fall leaves, of which there are more than a few, many of the trees have begun to turn brilliant yellows, reds and browns, not only the deciduous trees but the firs ( Read more... ) -
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Dear God, it's 108 degrees. 1-0-8 Fahrenheit, and dry as a tender box. I hear about the fires out west, and it wouldnt surprise me in the least if we got one of our own, I've heard rumors of people setting their grass alight trying to mow it, blade hits stone, spark, grass-fire ( Read more... ) -
29
My 29th birthday is today, mostly uneventful. I have an amazingly tenacious ear infection, I haven't been able to hear out of my left ear in a couple weeks. -
Requiem
How close can you be with someone you've never met "in the flesh?" I've heard it said more than once that a relationship maintained online "doesn't count" I can't remember for sure when my correspondence with Katherine began, sometime in my early college years. For years she was a ubiquitous presence in my life, we conversed daily, shared a ( Read more... ) -
Book Fair!
The weekend before last was the giant book fair in St Louis, always a highlight of the early-summer/late-spring period. I meant to write about it with more immediacy, but, borrowed Internet being my only Internet means I must conform to the whims of availability. (isn't technology supposed to tailor itself to the whims of man? ISN'T THAT THE WHOLE ( Read more... ) -
Still alive
I wanted to check in here and announce to the world that I am still alive ( Read more... )