It’s been six weeks today. And I must say, it went down a lot easier than I expected. By now, the pain is gone, I’m sleeping almost perfectly fine, and my condition is slowly improving. Which is good, given the fact that we’re moving to our new house this Saturday. I’m excused from the heavy… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2015
First Lines: Magic for Beginners
Most of the stories in Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners worked for me. Two didn’t. But the ones that did, mostly, made it work really well. Thing is, probably, that with a title like that, you automatically thing “Oh, she’s doing fantasy!” when actually, it’s a little bit more surrealistic. I mean, a story about… Read more »
First Lines: The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami’s The Strange Library is a strange little book. It tells the story of a lonely boy who went to the city library because he wanted to learn about tax collecting in the Ottoman empire–“Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don’t know something, go to the library and… Read more »
Angle
It didn’t expect #80 on my list of 100 things to be that easy. But then again, when I made that list, I didn’t expect to be in a hospital for a week and a half. Item completed Spend a week without touching a computer Period spend without touching a computer February 25th, 2015 to… Read more »
“And this, too, shall pass”
Two weeks ago today, I entered the hospital. This past Monday, I was sent home. Here is, roughly, what happened in between. The operation where the goat-swallowing Boa Constrictor got replaced with a garden hose, started around 8 A.M. on Thursday, February 26th, and by, say, 3:15 P.M. I was on the ICU. I don’t… Read more »