Comments | universaldonor: Turn off that smokestack and that goddamn radio

universaldonor

Turn off that smokestack and that goddamn radio

Sep 04, 2003 17:03

As noted previously, my back is fucked. My scoliosis wasn't detected in high school because Stuyvesant had a relaxed attitude towards gym class. Well, I had a relaxed attitude toward gym class, anyway. I was either sick, cutting, or out with a forged doctor's note on the days they were supposed to test us for spinal twistery. So my curvature ( Read more... )

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Colin? Colin, are you there? claudelemonde September 4 2003, 15:05:15 UTC

You've read The Secret Garden, yes? (The Frances Hodgson Burnett children's book, not the porny one.)

WOOO! claudelemonde September 4 2003, 15:43:49 UTC

Is that the book they made the movie of? I think I went to see that with my grandma. I remember it involving a brit kid that was crippled. He feared that 'the spores' would infect and kill him. Sounds like an exaggerated Jeremy, maybe.

- C.Dubble.Yoo

Hah, 'the spores'. nuncstans September 4 2003, 16:24:03 UTC

This post made my back feel even worse, because I started thinking about how I never even once in the repressed back of my mind went to anything like sports camp and then... and then I remembered: Summer of 1986, CAU, gorge-hiking, swimming, diving... and then: nothing! Nothing but a lifetime of lower back agony to show for it!

Re: WOOO! claudelemonde September 5 2003, 08:23:11 UTC

I didn't see the movie, but in the book, yeah, there's this invalid kid, Colin, who has to stay indoors and in bed all day because he's been told he has a weak back, and he's totally this petulant sickly thing, and then in the end Mary (our erstwhile heroine) convinces him, by dint of stamping, taunts and verbal abuse, to try walking in the garden, and (music swell) he DOES, and he does exercises and shit and then he's just like a normal boy!

I don't know where i'm going with this, not really. It was one of those free-association things.

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claudelemonde September 5 2003, 08:26:16 UTC

I only exercise when the mood strikes me, and only then because it increases my endurance for the things i'd rather be doing: smoking and drinking and dancing like a marionette whose strings are tied to an eggbeater. Plus, i enjoy executing intermittent series (serieses? serieii? serae? Jer, help) of high kicks.

totalvirility September 5 2003, 08:01:15 UTC

Wow, UD, ur Mom sounds a lot like you. I don't remember her being half so snippy in real life.

By the by, thank you, lo, for pointing out what I was gonna say yesterday, namely: were you, like, 13 when that picture was taken?

J.Ro totalvirility September 5 2003, 17:30:53 UTC

That picture is quite that old. I actually took it, reasons why he is wearing my nightgown are too complicated to describe, but I should point out, as usual, I was drunk.

i don't like being labeled "anonymous" anonymous September 5 2003, 08:31:14 UTC

I guess that juvenile photo is supposed to illustrate what UD's mom would have been faced with had she tried to make any suggestions to an adolescent UD about the formation of healthy habits. Yikes. That look would stop a freight train. (And it makes me feel like a pedophile.)

Now I am going on reader strike. LiveJournal is too ugly!

lo

But, Lo... nuncstans September 5 2003, 14:09:27 UTC

didn't you notice that they changed the whole layout today, just for you?

(Wendy: are you out there? Testing, testing... How about tomorrow?)

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Re: But, lo... anonymous September 5 2003, 15:05:18 UTC

well, now i'm a total scab... but yeah, i noticed this site looked a bit better. and it certainly is faster. but i still think it suxxxxx. now i am striking for real.

the upside of the other site being fucked is, according to yaccs, that the server performance will be
much better when it is finally fully restored. i can't believe i had to go so far as to hack into and infect their whole system for them to finally do something about the slowness. i mean, uh....

lo