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If we did look like our inner visions... I wonder who would recognize friends, family, anyone. Would the selves be cookie-cutter? all looking like airbrushed Photoshopped nonentities? Or would they be distinct enough, and would you know enough of the person, to smile and say, "There you are! I knew it was you."
Very odd.
(No, I didn't forget the Pumpkin Chutney. It happened. But I need to take a photo, for better illustrating the point there.)
Friday the 13th, but at least it's a Friday. This weekend is for pumpkin chutney and clay figures. I should do these, and if I promise recipe and photos to you then it should happen. Right?
My therapist says there are too many "should"s in how I talk about myself. Feh.
Not even a first draft, just words thrown down like a handful of dice, the ones that didn't roll off the table...
I want to go someplace else
be somewhere else
be someone else
it doesn't matter where
it doesn't matter whom
Just
not here
not me.
The dishes didn't all fit in the dishwasher.
I have failed.
Someone said there's a poem he reads every year
and that makes me want to read it
but it's not online
not all of it
the little I saw is good
why can't I write like that?
There's too much spice on the sweet potatoes.
I must remember to get the car inspected.
There's a message on the answering machine
from Tuesday.
It's all hallow's eve and the weather is warm
and the wind is blowing all the leaves off the trees
and I want to be out there and I want to be blown
away
away
away.
When I came back from Richmond, I was developing a sore back molar that got worse over the weekend (naturally). So on Monday, I called the dentist office and on Tuesday I saw the dentist and he said the tooth had split and it ought to come out. Do it now, or wait? Now, said I, and he did. And he asked what painkilers I'd been taking and I said I had some leftover meds from knee pain, and so he didn't give me a prescription for more, or any prescription for anything else, just some gauze and a sheet of "what to do now." I went to work and read the sheet and it said "do this" and "do that" and "keep taking the antibiotics" and I said, er, huh? I called the dentist office and said "antibiotics?" and they said "let us check" and then they said "oh that sheet is for general dental surgery, just do the gauze and the rinsing and whatever else he told you." The sheet says "Instructions Following Your Tooth Extraction." Hmmm. But I did the gauze and the rinsing and took more pain meds when I needed to sleep. And the space kept hurting and it started to get worse, and frankly it didn't look so great either. So today I called and said "it's nearly the weekend, can someone look at it before then?" and they gave me an appointment with another dentist. He looked at the space. He said, "well, yes, there is a little swelling..." in the tone of voice that really says "uhoh" especially with only about 2 seconds of observation. He went off to check on something, or talk to someone. He came back. He said, "I've called the pharmacy downstairs. Take two of the antibiotics right away and one at dinner and one at bedtime, then three times a day." He also gave me prescriptions for large-dose ibuprofen for daytime and a different pain med for nighttime. Also instructions for additional salt-water rinsing and for hot moist compresses. Also instructions on how to contact the dentist-on-call if things got worse over the weekend, and "please do call if needed!"
I support doctors who try not to use antibiotics as an automatic response to anything and everything. Drug-resistance in disease-causing organisms is a big, big problem. But in this case, 'twas not so good, and now we play catchup.
I've had other stuff on my mind than LJ. But catching up from when I last posted...
( ~ nine days of updates in one easy package ~ )And that's what's been happening.
The wireless is, I think, it seems, currently at least, working. It took a lot of fiddling with settings, of setting and resetting passwords and connection defaults (including going back to our original DSL password), and we still haven't seen if it'll stay working if we ever need to reboot the system.
Tomorrow: work. Yes, I know it's a holiday. But something needs to be done for Tuesday that didn't get done on Friday because I was getting my daughter back from college for the long weekend.
Tomorrow evening: Monster starts on SyFy, 11 pm Eastern US, English dubbed version. EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH. *cough* Seriously, it's only labelled anime because labelling it a psychological thriller dealing with medical ethics, genetics, sociopaths, behavioral conditioning, East German experiments, Czech fairy-tale writers, secret societies, and police procedurals and manhunts, would take too long. There are no super powers of a sort other than Dr. Tenma's tenacity, there are no demons except those that are inside... who? Everyone, possibly.
The Wikipedia page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(ma
Our land-line phone service is Verizon. We've been having trouble with static and on-and-off dial tone for a couple of years now, and sometimes they fiddle with the outside wires (and the service guy tells us the whole area needs replacement wires and boxes) but lately they're saying it must be inside and until we check every phone jack and circuit they're going to keep insisting it's inside. So our land-line is unuseable.