Oh shit, I’m screwed.
Well, maybe not. At least I’ll have strong bones while I’m going crazy!

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This morning I was pummeled by my massage therapist and this afternoon I was poked with sharp needles by my acupuncturist. I feel much better!

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I’m going back and filling in the gaps of some of the musical things I do not know. For the first time in my life, I’m practicing scales on the guitar (as taught to me by my friend J.C.). Whee!

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Today was the yard sale I looked forward to all year, the one hosted by the Memphis Taproom in Fishtown. Oh, joy! Many, many wondrous cheap treasures (CDs of Roger William’s Greatest Hits! The Best of Nancy Sinatra! The Ultimate Woody Guthrie Collection!) and artsy things you can’t turn away from for the all-too-reasonable sum [...]

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Even though I apparently did get some sleep last night, it didn’t feel like it. I got a nap this afternoon and feel somewhat better.
I wish I knew if I was doing something to cause this so I could stop doing it.

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To be back home again.

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This is the second night in a row where I couldn’t sleep. Don’t know why, really - even though I didn’t have any caffeine yesterday, maybe weeks of swilling a gallon of iced tea daily have finally caught up with me. All I know is, I got out of bed at six, pulled all the [...]

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I have to wear this weird lace-up cloth and Velcro contraption on my right foot. It has straps that I guess are supposed to act as stabilizers to replace the work of the ruptured ligament.
But I wish someone (oh, I don’t know, a doctor?) would tell me how the ligament is supposed to heal when [...]

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Someone has offered to let me use a cabin in Colorado to go away and write - with broadband, of course. (Be still, my heart!)
The problem is getting there. Anyone have any frequent flier miles they’re willing to donate?

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This is how I think most of the time. I have what astrologers would call an Uranian mind - Uranus rules lightning, so sudden insight is like seeing something revealed by a flash of lightning. Not that you care, probably, but I’m acutely self-conscious about my thought processes being so different than most people’s.
See, [...]

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When I was a kid, we used to sing this Paul Petersen song (from “The Donna Reed Show”) to my dad. I miss him.

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Okay, so it wasn’t exactly earth shattering, but it sure was informative. Bill Clinton invited a group of bloggers (including yours truly, in the blue jacket) to meet with him this past Monday at the Clinton Foundation offices in Harlem.
Many of the bloggers who were there already wrote about it in great detail here, here, [...]

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I knew it.
I kept telling all of these doctors and no one would listen. I said I had a bone chip that was catching one of the ligaments, and it was ripping the ligament when I walked. I could feel it.
So after bullying the orthopod into ordering the MRI (despite his assurances that really, the [...]

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I just haven’t had the time or energy to write about the blogger meeting with My New Best Friend Bill Clinton© , but I should get to it before the end of the week.

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I needed a day off to follow up on some things. Check back tomorrow!

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Bill Clinton. I met him today. Smart, too!

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I’m not here today, but through the magic of WordPress, it’s as if I am!
The headline is the clue as to my whereabouts. More when I’m home.

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I’ve been having trouble playing the guitar because of arthritis in my left thumb. I had an acupuncture treatment this morning and I can now bend it almost all the way!

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It’s been in the back of my head for a week or so, but I couldn’t quite articulate it until now: I’m happy. Despite my fears and anxieties, the Universe seems to be conspiring to shower me with blessings. How the hell did that happen?
Let’s listen to some Kinks to celebrate:

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you bought me iced tea
then said, ‘it’s not you it’s me.’
know what? i agree.
[via Karl.]
I love iced tea, perhaps too much. It makes me much more productive, and in the high heat of summer, it’s what’s for breakfast.
It makes me much more alert, and hence produces more 1 a.m. bedtimes than I like - [...]

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If you had swine flu, wouldn’t you tell your mother?

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Three dead mice in the same week!

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I was at a family graduation party yesterday and somehow I’d got it in my head that my niece’s husband, a dentist, graduated from Temple Dental. So I told him about the clinic manager I met and the bad experience I had at Penn Dental. That’s when I found out he went to Penn.
I apologized [...]

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I picked up a guitar the other day for the first time in a long time. Why so long? Some of it is that I was distracted by the chaos of life; the other is that I normally play standing up, and I’ve been favoring the bad ankle for so long.
So I opened the case [...]

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I’m so tired of bad news. How about this?
A tangle of words, letters and anxiety filled the halls of the D.C. hotel where the culminating rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee were held yesterday. One by one, seats opened up on the blue-and-red stage as the words that students traced on their palms turned [...]

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I forgot to mention that Will Bunch, after doing a radio interview with Brian Tierney (publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News), responded to Tierney’s suggestion that he recommend some liberal writers for the paper.
I was one of them.
It would be kind of cool if some of you would send letters to [...]

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I just came from the acupuncture clinic and stopped afterward at a neighborhood cafe for iced tea. The owner, who I know, told me the latest news: Fishtown’s The Hot Potato Cafe was just the subject of a makeover by “Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.”
I’ve never eaten there because no one ever gave it a glowing [...]

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The phone just rang. It was a DCCC fundraising call “to help us with our plans for healthcare reform.”
I interrupted his spiel. “I won’t give the party one red cent until they come out strongly for single-payer or a public plan,” I said.
“Ma’am, we are supporting a public plan…”
“No you’re not,” I said, interrupting again. [...]

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It never occurred to me before, but University of Penn dental students may be the health care equivalent of SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts! (Namely, they exercise empathy only for people just like them.)
Let me explain. Tonight I met a woman who’s the officer manager for a large dental practice. She told me when she [...]

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So I’m supposed to be eligible for another 20-week benefits extension, but when I used up my last batch, I never got anything in the mail telling me otherwise. So I filed via phone as usual this morning (there’s no actual contact with human beings, as you probably already know) and was told I had [...]

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