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There’s nothing like a long to-do list for stirring up the ol’ busywork. So, I just went through my November 2006 archive and added the “Nablopomo” tag, just in case the cyber archaeologists of the future need help sorting out which months I blogged every day, and why. I don’t usually like reading through things [...]

I got my stitches out today, and made an appointment to get steroid injections which will hopefully minimize my scarring this time around (and maybe improve my baseball game!). The appointment is with a dermatologist, which got me thinking about the wide variety of doctors this lump (and this now post lump collarbone) has seen.
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Yesterday, I had this metal plate, which had been holding my collarbone in place since my surgery last May, taken out. This was the best operation I’ve had yet. First of all, since it was outpatient, I got to keep my underpants on, which adds enormously to one’s sense of dignity in those all-but-backless hospital [...]

The weird thing about having my mother here is that, like, 90% of this blog’s readers are spending all day, every day with me (how large are mom and Brian that they make up 90%? How small must my other reader(s) be to make up 10%? Oh, this is impossible, and strangely discomfiting).
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I don’t work on Fridays. I don’t have school, and I sit around the house and think of all the work I need to be doing… lecture notes for Wednesday, line-edits for workshop this Sunday, reading for my Keats class on Monday. Plus housework, and writing, and I should be going to the gym, too, [...]

This is totally a guilt post (oh, don’t you wish it were a gilt post, with pretty golden doodly bits all over?). Its late, I’ve been working on my lesson for class tomorrow, and suddenly, urgently, I decided that I Must Update My Blog Now. So, hi. Here I am.
Again, this is probably old news [...]