Birthday Portrait

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Health care at its finest

For months, my primary care physician has been nagging me to get an appointment with a urologist. I’ve had three kidney stones, and even though I haven’t had one in four years—four years!—she tells me I have to have a urologist in Chicago. They’re hard to get into, she says. You have to have one [...]

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Texas Roots

On the 22 Clark bus on my way home. Talking to my mom.
Me: Oh! Ohohoh! I just saw a coyote in the cemetery!
Mom: Your Uncle Tom caught one a couple days ago.
Me: I don’t think I want to hear about this.
Mom: He had a trap set up.
Me: I don’t think I want to hear about [...]

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Eeyore

It is 8F with a wind chill of -11F. The forecast calls for highs in the teens until Thursday, when it will climb to a whopping 26 degrees. And then it will snow. Again.
These are the forecasts that make me hate my life and swear I’ll never live another winter here. I’ve lived in cold [...]

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Pretty Much Sums Up My Day

As I was getting ready to get into the shower this evening, I opened up my medicine cabinet and something fell out. I bent over to pick it up, burning my bare ass on the radiator behind me, and then ramming the back of my head into the door of the medicine cabinet when I [...]

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Solipsistic Wonderland

I totally stole the subject of this post from the excellent Read Roger. It’s an oft-made point, though, that blogging is a self-serving exercise, especially for those of us who blog for such a small audience. I justify the solipsism because it’s a nice way for me to keep in touch with friends, and it’s [...]

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Wasted Saturday

I spent most of my Saturday moving from nap to nap, something that the kitties enjoy immensely. This makes me feel sort of less pathetic—like, I’m not napping! I’m spending quality snuggle time with my cats! My lazy Saturday means that I will now be getting up early to run eight miles tomorrow, which [...]

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Lab Rat

I had an early doctor’s appointment this morning, and my doctor wanted me to have some blood work done. As the technician was preparing everything, I asked her if she had any fun band-aids.
Tech: No, but we should, huh? For people with a sense of humor?
Me: Totally. You really need some Batman or Superman band-aids [...]

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It’s Almost Funny

Almost. In the ongoing saga of Things Going Wrong, and in the spirit of using my blog to bitch unreservedly about my personal life, I add the following complaints:

my management company has not returned any of my three phone calls about the “fix-it” list. On this list includes the fact that I have no [...]

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Moved!

I’ve been in my new apartment for three days now. Considering that just about everything leading up to this move went wrong, I’m just glad it’s over. I spent waaaaay more money than I’d wanted to; one bookshelf plunged to its death from the third floor balcony into the alley; the movers were an hour [...]

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