Archive for April, 2013
inert (caution: contains all manner of tv and film spoilers and ‘cancer’ and ‘AIDS’)
On the latest and varied, real and imaginary ATR progress widgets, I am:
- 3 weeks, 4 days post-op
- 4 weeks more in full NWB casts
- on episode 9 of Mad Men Season 3
- catching up on this season’s Grey’s Anatomy
- rapidly becoming adept at drawing creatures of the sea in various states of sartorial sophistication
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cast system
Under the sea
Under the sea
Nobody beat us
Fry us and eat
In fricasee
Not long ago I said to The DG, “If I ever get a tattoo, it will be of a fish with a monocle.” When we decided that a monocled fish was hilarious is a mystery to me, but that’s the brief and unsatisfying backstory.
The [...]
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under the knife. (i insist.)
The junior doctor said ‘conservative’. (I <3 the NHS.) I made a face like this :/ . He fled to fetch the consultant.
The consultant was a taller, blacker, orthopaedics-trained, version of Yoda. I asked all the usual questions that no one can really answer about one’s own treatment decision - they’re [...]
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the main event
If I try really hard I’m sure I can just about swim up from the haze and outline the details of The Incident. But it’s been 3+ weeks now and, right this moment, I’m laid up on the couch with a spectacular hangover. Having just broken from my lengthy captivity with The DG yesterday, (who, [...]
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