August 2009

Anniversary

Today, from the first time I mentioned my sore throat on the internets, I have been sick a month. You may imagine I’m a bit frustrated. My brain isn’t what it should be, my energy isn’t nearly what I need, and this cough just won’t go away. I’m trying to edit Joss. I’m trying to […]

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Way to Bow to the Morons, Guys

A plan to provide hospice counseling and other end-of-life advice to patients and their families is being dropped by US Senate health care negotiators after critics charged that it would lead to the formation of federal โ€œdeath panels,โ€™โ€™ a key GOP senator said yesterday. via Senators eliminate end-of-life provision – The Boston Globe. I guess

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Pity-Party

I’d love one, but I don’t have time. How does the third week of September work for you? A friend once told me (stop me if you’ve heard this before) that he didn’t know how I did it. Every time Life knocked me down, I got right back up. I stared at him and laughed,

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Of Course It’s Not for the Money

Duh. No one but an idiot writes for the money. An agent on Twitter threw out the idea that the publishing model needs to change–specifically, that advances should be smaller or occur not at all. Discussion, naturally, ensued. Some of the responders had my fingers itching to grab a salmon and introduce them to some

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On Drowning

I keep jerking awake. Flailing, usually. Once I fell off the bed. It’s a twin, very narrow, and there was a cat…anyway. Jerk awake. Flailing. Drowning. Can’t breathe. We all know life is fragile. Know it in our heads, anyway. But when you wake six times in one night, drowning in the immune response of

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Sorry to be MIA

The Cold of DOOM is/was pneumonia. And/or bronchitis. I’ve got meds like you wouldn’t believe and I’m finally starting to get some energy, but I’m having to expend that at work. So this is just an “I’m alive” post. More soon, since tonight is (yay!) the weekend.

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