After doing chemo in the cancer unit I discovered that Shakey’s Lipa is open. There were no customers inside but the huge HOT PIZZA marquee was on, and the crew was busy fixing up orders for delivery. I rushed home and… Read More ›
Month: April 2020
Powers
Not related to the post, but there are now unclassified videos of UFO’s and truly THIS COULD BE A JOB FOR MULDER AND SCULLY! I haven’t been watching a lot of news for the past few weeks, only checking twitter… Read More ›
TT
Another one of my cancer patients died from disease progression today at home, the 7th since the world shut down. In the past few weeks the patient has quickly developed spinal cord compression, secondary infections, and multiple metastases. We had… Read More ›
Summer Mittelschmerz
I woke up with very itchy legs. I checked the bed and discovered tiny pieces of wire and spring jutting out of the foam, poking my bare sweaty legs. The aircon was making weird gurgling noises, and when I placed… Read More ›
Double-Headed D’s in New York
This current state of isolation reminds me of the 2015 movie Room based on the novel of Emma Donaghue, about a woman trying to escape the hovel where her husband has kept her and her son captive for seven years. I… Read More ›
Beso Cues
When the Quarantinees are finally unleashed into the world most of us would probably look plumpier, but the hope is that we would somehow look younger due to the minimized sun exposure. I used to cake my face with sunblock… Read More ›
Half-Assed Unwarranted Rebellion Against Nothing
Failed morphing into an iced tea. I recently had a series of Zoom/Messenger meetings with different sets of friends, which was something I didn’t know I needed. At some point nobody’s really talking any more, each one just doing his… Read More ›
Putting The Carcass Back Together
One of the events cancelled (or for more emphasis, cancelledtht) by the rapidly escalating Corona crisis was the short story writing workshop I attend twice a year. In these workshops I am coerced to write. I like the pressure of… Read More ›
Melodramatic Syndrome of Melancholia (MSM) and Bludgeonella’s Bludgeonings
My friends (and I) are going insane, for different reasons and at varying degrees. Some are weeping from fatigue, others from the overwhelming sense of injustice, while others are just getting bored out of their wits. No sense being dismissive… Read More ›
Quarantine Magnum
A couple of months ago a patient gave me a Magnum ice cream bar, and by the time I was able to bring it home it was already sloshing inside the packaging. For weeks I’ve been attempting to take it… Read More ›
C#!ck@ To The Highest Level
One of the skills that I would have to re-train myself for once the ECQ is lifted (and I survive this pandemic!) is talking to people face to face. I am neither the most articulate nor the most engaging speaker… Read More ›
Tonight’s Soap Recap!
I hardly have any subscription to anything because I’m totally stingy, and again I blame the poverty mindset of hellowship. But of course if someone offered to let me borrow a Netflix group account, who am I to refuse. But… Read More ›
Love on Valentine’s
By 2019 things were sort of going well for me. I was finally happy with my work schedule, the clinic load was just right, my skin was getting quite fantastic, and months have passed without me obsessing that I was… Read More ›
Last Will, Testament, and Endorsements
For the past few days I’ve been waking up with some mild, constricting chest pain and whereas before I would automatically assume “THYMIC CARCINOMA!”, it is now the virus that instantly comes to mind. Someone in the house would cough… Read More ›
Supposed Former Melancholia Junkie 