I've been writing an Evil Coffee Shop story about a blind date and feeling less than thrilled with it.  Afraid it's boring, not funny, etc.  So I show up Thursday at the coffee shop (not evil) and N.  says to me, "I loved that story you started last week.  It gave me the courage to go out on a blind date -- which turned out to be an awkward ( Read more... )

 Here I am in the hospital, waiting (and waiting) for treatment.  But good news!  The trial protocol has changed, because apparently everyone on it feels like a zombie, and they are now allowed to lower my dose -- yay!  Hoping this will alleviate some of the deadly fatigue and other, lesser annoyances.  Also the doc gave me a prescription for ( Read more... )

A short post to say I now fully get why it is a good thing to get your book signed by the author.  Sometimes I think, meh, who cares, I want the contents of the book, not an autograph.  This week, I was looking for the next likely read and turned up Forest Born, the the last Bayern book which I haven't read yet.  Flipped it open and there on the ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to Whole Foods and parked next to a car with a dog in it.  In the summer.  85 degrees out.  Window was half-open, but seriously, who still does this, after all the info.  out there about dogs in cars in the summer?  I didn't know what to do.  Poor golden retriever type doggie was panting like crazy.  Should I go into Whole Foods, ( Read more... )

I think my usual August reading slump shifted to July.  Not sure why.  Maybe because I finished a reread of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight in June, and sometimes when I read a really, really excellent book it's hard to find the next thing without it being a disappointment.  All I know is that I have a stack of books by my bedside, and I've read ( Read more... )

Woohoo!  Came back from seeing "Midnight in Paris" (which you should see, if for nothing else, for Hemingway, who is hilarious -- also I want Gertrude Stein to read my novel) to a rubber-banded stack of mail.  Included one of my sister's packages, with the obligatory origami and handwritten letter that makes me laugh out loud.  Also included -- and ( Read more... )

This morning I saw a guy in Harvard Square --middle-aged, gray-haired, with a bit of a beer gut, plaid shorts, polo shirt, and shiny things in his ears which made me say, oh wow, he has earrings!  Which I thought was totally cool, because I just love it when people behave against type (sometime I'll tell you about my wonderful tattooed nurse at the ( Read more... )

for about a week.  Thus not posting much.  It was a most pleasant week.  I spent one entire day pretty much sleeping (okay, there was a walk early on).  There was some looking at colleges, including my own alma mater, with prospective student niece.  It was fun to be back on campus.  The information session was interesting, but I got bored on the ( Read more... )

 
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- Second blood transfusion this week.   Sadly, it really doesn't make me feel better instantly.  Very gradual.  But today I feel it's finally kicked in.  My nurse was a total sweetie ("Can I get you something?  Please?  I love to fuss.").  Since the move to the new building, all the nurses have been stellar (no cranky ones).  Yay nurses!

- Dr. C. ( Read more... )