this afternoon i have a doctor’s appt wherein he will tell me if i am good to go on vacation or not.
if he tells me no, i may go anyway.
either way, seeya cats in about a week and change.
Month: May 2008
i don’t have a bone infection.
i do have bone bits in me muscles. next week i get another looksee to find out if they are still growing, or were a one-off which has subsided since i stopped p/t and all the rest of the mess.
i am really really really hoping i get a green light to go to maine. if i don’t, i’m not sure what i will do.
the dances are not as good as wow:
Ted Ed Kennedy has a brain tumor
Yeah, I mistyped that. From now on, I just need to c/p news.
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i either have Heterotopic ossification(aka HO), or a deep bone infection. the doctor is definitely leaning towards the ossyfing tissue, since infection at this stage would be unlikely, unless something bacterial adhered to the metal in my arm via the bloodstream while all the healing veins were going out, but before the wound site was sealed internally.
i am hoping i got HO. since infection means eventually, they would have to re-operate to remove the hardware and infected bone.
back in the brace, off p/t, limiting motion as much as possible, and keep everything that can be crossed, crossed.
angry at the world. tired of quazi-invalidism. at least there was no hardware failure or fracture shift.
my arm started to twinge a little last night. by this morning it was a roaring inferno of throbs and pain. bone doc is in surg till noon, then i shoehorn in.
i’m so tired of this shit.
the worst part is, i’ve done bupkis. it must haver been posture/chair putting strain on the hardware.
Last night I went to see Vivaldi’s Venice, which was definitely one of the more unique presentations of Baroque work (complete with double harpsichord) I’ve ever attended.
The evening’s lineup was framed around passages from Alejo Carpentier’s book Concierto barroco, in which Vivaldi, Handel and Scarlatti are all in Venice at the same time and place (during Carnivale), and, essentially, get together for a jam session.
The performers of the traditional pieces did a superb job. It was admittedly odd having the works linked by a narrator reading translated excerpts, but it worked, particularly since the conductor was good enough to “assign roles” to the musicians represented in the fiction. Some of the original combinations of traditional pieces were truly amazing in their ebb and flow of style and sound.
Concierto barroco is, to an extent, an absurdist work – phantasmagorical history (an excellent intellectual jumping-off point for the meaning and purpose of opera vs. history, an issue brought up in the book, and the performace last night). The highlight of this in the performance was when “Louis Armstrong” appears in the midst of the jam session. Hearing baroque string/harpsichord overlaid with a jazz horn in a concert hall was truly a mashup I’ll never have a comparable experience to again.
Quite a night!
so, i have had it in my head for months that i need to make a decision about moving by the month of august.
last night, i discovered, my lease is up july 1. i signed for july, but didn’t end up moving until august.
if month-to-month is not a possibility until end of summer, june is going to suck more than i thought it was possible for a month to suck.
i think i may just need to go homeless for a month or two. a lot of things in the air at the moment, which means that until a few of them settle, i don’t even know _where_ to look for an apartment. at least it is a renter’s market. my massage therapist was able to talk her new landlord down 800$ + a gym/pool membership in the building.
whee.
i had a fantabulistical dinner with
i’m just trying to make it through the next 48 hours without killing anyone – that would be grand.
also, anyone have any insider dirt on when the goddamn Instinct is coming out? i am really trying to hold out for an android phone, but i am afraid my current model is gonna bitch out on me before they hit the market. After HTC went tits up on the Dream, I’m losing hope of seeing one before 2009.
i plan to be off radar this weekend, due to internet geekdom. if there is something goin on that i should know about, holla back – otherwise, i’ll be in Hyboria.
i don’t have to wear my stupid cast anymore. now watch some fucking moron will playfully karate chop me or something.
angst rules the week.
at least i’m making progress.
Some judge awarded a 110 million dollar verdict to the MPAA against Torrentspy.
Bypassing the legality issues of linking to content, as opposed to hosting it yourself, why does this drive me mad?
That number is based on a formula of 30k per “act of infringement”.
The White House offered Burma a little over 3 million dollars in aid, after a Cyclone Nargis tore through , and killed north of 20k people. Estimates suggest that number may end up north of 100k.
Assuming the worst, 100k, that means the life of the average person killed in the cyclone is worth about 30$. By Condi Rice & co’s estimation.
The total aid we gave pays for about 3 minutes of the Iraq war, calculated using total cumulative cost to date.
I’m not some fucking hemped out bleeding heart hippy. Those numbers are totally fucked – on a human level. Part of the motivating effort used to spin the mobilization of US military forces abroad was an incident that killed somewhere south of 3% of the people who died in Burma.
The best movie in the world is not worth 1000 times the life of the worst human on the planet.
Days like today make me want to burn it all down.
i really want to see iron man, because it looks like they got a couple things right.
after the horror of the first hulk movie, now it looks like they may have adjusted a little?
i habitually hate most comic book movies, but it seems possible that there may be two decent ones in not so far a span from each other.
wow.
i hope i’m not eating these words whenever i see iron man.