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ME: Doctors' office, Allie speaking.

PATIENT'S MOM: Hi! I was wondering if I could have Dr. S call me back this morning?

ME: (sidelong glance at overfilled schedule) Sure, let me just get a notepad here. OK, shoot.

PATIENT'S MOM: Well, I have a bottle of meds here but I'm not sure what they're for.

ME: (covers up silence by pretending I was ( Read more... )

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Finding a father in the gulags

There is such cold evil in the world. And so many who work, too late, to fix the unfixable.

The moral arc of the universe is long, but it arcs toward justice. - Martin Luther King.

I'm working my ass off tonight so I can actually sit down and watch the inauguration tomorrow. I'm even thinking of going out and getting some Super Bowlesque snacks for it, even though deep down I know perfectly well that, historic occasion or not, I'm going to get bored fast with the amount of self-congratulatory politicking that goes on at these ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm back.

The stupidity surrounding the election was like the siren call to Ulysses.

So, what's everybody been up to?

I haven't been around because I've been sucked into World of Warcraft. More later after I've gotten back to New York; I've been house-sitting for my parents these past 1 1/2 weeks (which played a certain role in getting sucked in). Tawk amongst yahselves.

Tonight I cleaned house metaphorically and tomorrow I will clean house literally; you see how the two go together. I have lots to do tomorrow, and in the hopes of getting myself up and out at hours more closely approximating those of a normal, psychologically healthy person's, I have decided to prepare my knapsack by ridding it of the detritus it ( Read more... )

On Saturday morning I took the subway down to the 19th Street Loews, one of four theaters in Manhattan showing Pan's Labyrinth. I've been a fan of Guillermo del Toro's work since seeing Hellboy, and Pan - which is set shortly after the time period occupied by his last Spanish-language film, The Devil's Backbone, in WWII-era Spain - is said to be an ( Read more... )