"Red Blood and Brown Medicine" ...sounds like a poem or something
It was while I was standing in front of the bathroom mirror at the office, watching the brown disinfectant/painkiller run together with the red blood, trying to mop up the latter but not the former while keeping as much of the issue as possible out of sight of the poor perfect stranger trying to wash her hands, that I finally felt saw where the whole bleeding-people-better obsession came from.
Sometimes it's a bit of a relief. Too much blood congregated in one place, just...stewing. Welling under the skin so that it makes the pain worse. Having that just sort of spill out, flowing away from the infected area, feels almost a little clensing, except for the whole face-and-hands-streaked with sickly orangeish rapidly turning to crusty black sort of thing. Inconvenient timing.
ETA: I'm fine. Blood was just from minor infections, not real injuries or anything like that. Should have been clearer.
And Now, because Katie J. said I had to. ...
1. You are in the Witness Protection Program and must invent a new first, last, and middle name.
Rachel Katherine ("R.K.") Sinclair
2. You are in a threesome with two famous people, alive or dead.
Johnny Depp and Kurt Wagner.
3. You are in charge of naming your new band. What's the name of the band?
Pennywhistle
4. You are going to get a free tattoo. What is it and where do you want it?
Asterisks on the earlobes.
5. You are being forced to listen to one song over and over, and [sic] infinitum, as a form of torture. What song is it?
The one I'd pick, right now? Levan Polkka. The worst torture... Jesse Kamp's single... the title escapes me.
6. You are leaving your state/province. What province/state do you move to?
Hmm...Staffs had its good points. But I guess stick to the states. Oregon.
7. You are leaving your country, where would you move to?
Belgium.
8. You get to choose one book as the best ever written. What book do you choose?
"Best" is hard. "Favorite" is easier. I just can't answer this.
9. You get to choose one movie as the best ever made. What movie do you choose?
Again, hard word. I'm tempted to say Lawrence of Arabia, for best screenplay, anyway.
10. You get to spend one day each as a bird, an insect, and a mammal. What bird would you be? What insect? What mammal?
Bird: kestrel
Insect: cricket
Mammal: cat
11. You must relive one year of your life. Which would you like to relive?
For doing it all over again about the same? Age 6. For doing it better? Age 19
12. Which would you least like to relive?
Age 23.
13. You have a time machine that will take you backwards anywhere from 1800 to the present. What decade do you most want to visit?
The Napoleonic War, sweetheart. Especially if I can be around those British naval uniforms.
14. You must choose to go skydiving or very-deep-sea diving.
Skydiving.
15. You get to return to the past and have a sexual encounter with a rock star who is no longer alive. Who do you pick?
George Harrison, because Freddie Mercury would be too much work.
16. You get to be a contestant on any game show, airing today or in the past. What show do you want to be on?
Jeopardy, despite husband's advocation of Press Your Luck
17. You are given $1 million but you must give it all to one charity. What charity do you choose?
Heifer International.
18. You must ban one word from the dictionary and all usage, to be no longer uttered or written. What word do you choose?
It would a name. A name of a very obscure person in the history books. I don't say the name, because I don't want to give the bastard the satisfaction. It would be nice to make that universal.
19. You can have 100 million dollars tax free but if you take it, you'll die at the age of fifty. Do you take it?
That's hard....I've got a fifty-fifty chance of having the drop-dead-at-65 gene anyway, and a thousands of ideas that'd be a lot easier with vast sums...but I guess not.
Sometimes it's a bit of a relief. Too much blood congregated in one place, just...stewing. Welling under the skin so that it makes the pain worse. Having that just sort of spill out, flowing away from the infected area, feels almost a little clensing, except for the whole face-and-hands-streaked with sickly orangeish rapidly turning to crusty black sort of thing. Inconvenient timing.
ETA: I'm fine. Blood was just from minor infections, not real injuries or anything like that. Should have been clearer.
And Now, because Katie J. said I had to. ...
1. You are in the Witness Protection Program and must invent a new first, last, and middle name.
Rachel Katherine ("R.K.") Sinclair
2. You are in a threesome with two famous people, alive or dead.
Johnny Depp and Kurt Wagner.
3. You are in charge of naming your new band. What's the name of the band?
Pennywhistle
4. You are going to get a free tattoo. What is it and where do you want it?
Asterisks on the earlobes.
5. You are being forced to listen to one song over and over, and [sic] infinitum, as a form of torture. What song is it?
The one I'd pick, right now? Levan Polkka. The worst torture... Jesse Kamp's single... the title escapes me.
6. You are leaving your state/province. What province/state do you move to?
Hmm...Staffs had its good points. But I guess stick to the states. Oregon.
7. You are leaving your country, where would you move to?
Belgium.
8. You get to choose one book as the best ever written. What book do you choose?
"Best" is hard. "Favorite" is easier. I just can't answer this.
9. You get to choose one movie as the best ever made. What movie do you choose?
Again, hard word. I'm tempted to say Lawrence of Arabia, for best screenplay, anyway.
10. You get to spend one day each as a bird, an insect, and a mammal. What bird would you be? What insect? What mammal?
Bird: kestrel
Insect: cricket
Mammal: cat
11. You must relive one year of your life. Which would you like to relive?
For doing it all over again about the same? Age 6. For doing it better? Age 19
12. Which would you least like to relive?
Age 23.
13. You have a time machine that will take you backwards anywhere from 1800 to the present. What decade do you most want to visit?
The Napoleonic War, sweetheart. Especially if I can be around those British naval uniforms.
14. You must choose to go skydiving or very-deep-sea diving.
Skydiving.
15. You get to return to the past and have a sexual encounter with a rock star who is no longer alive. Who do you pick?
George Harrison, because Freddie Mercury would be too much work.
16. You get to be a contestant on any game show, airing today or in the past. What show do you want to be on?
Jeopardy, despite husband's advocation of Press Your Luck
17. You are given $1 million but you must give it all to one charity. What charity do you choose?
Heifer International.
18. You must ban one word from the dictionary and all usage, to be no longer uttered or written. What word do you choose?
It would a name. A name of a very obscure person in the history books. I don't say the name, because I don't want to give the bastard the satisfaction. It would be nice to make that universal.
19. You can have 100 million dollars tax free but if you take it, you'll die at the age of fifty. Do you take it?
That's hard....I've got a fifty-fifty chance of having the drop-dead-at-65 gene anyway, and a thousands of ideas that'd be a lot easier with vast sums...but I guess not.