Help Me Save the Infant Laptop

November 5, 2012
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This morning I was going to write something clever, or maybe even funny, or at the very least less incoherent and probably less about ducks. I was going to raise the bar. As the bar is on the floor after the last couple of weeks of fever posts I thought this would not be hard. […]

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Why a Duck?

November 2, 2012
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white rubber ducky with silver halo and wings

I am having trouble with consciousness this morning. This might be because of the three times I’ve had to answer the door when I was trying to be asleep. Or it might be the painkillers. Or it might just be that the transition from the dream world to the conscious world has been more than […]

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Happily Ever After

November 1, 2012
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Young girl in Victoria era clothing reads to a young boy seated at her knee. Caption reads: And they all lived happily ever after. No, just kidding, they're all dead.

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Look, I Got Here By Using Logic

October 31, 2012
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Mouse in a maze with no clear way to the cheese. The mouse has set explosives on the wall closest to the cheese and laid wire back into the maze to where it can safely set the explosives off. Caption reads: Obstacles. Most can be overcome by the appropriate use of explosives.

I’m starting to get better. (Yay!) Which means it’s time to get back to work. (Um…) I’ve cleared away the backlog of admin tasks. (Bleh.) Which means it’s time to look at the writing. (Yay!) If only I can figure out exactly what I was doing when I got sick… (Um…) Okay. New plan:  

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The Next Step in Human Evolution

October 30, 2012
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Chart showing the evolution of mankind from left to right, introducing one stage at a time. But after the homo sapiens stage there is a zombie, which thinks for a moment and then turns and attacks the trail of evolution. He kills the homo sapiens, eating his brains, and drags the corpse after him as he chases the rest, which run away after the caveman's spear has no effect.

Sometimes I wonder why we all seem so convinced that this is the next step. Perhaps it’s because so many people already look like zombies — shuffling feet, dead eyes… I read a story that was the vampire apocalypse the other day and to start with I had to keep reminding myself: vampires, not zombies. Because my brain just seemed […]

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Which Pill Do You Choose?

October 29, 2012
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Which Pill Do You Choose? Yellow Pill: Gives you the ability to read anybody's thoughts inside a 100m radius, can only use 5 times a day for a maximum of 30 minutes. Green Pill: Give you the ability to fly, can only use 3 times a day for a maximum of an hour. Blue Pill: Gives you the ability to master any sport of your choice, but toxins in pill only let you live for 10 more years after consumption. Orange Pill: Gives you the ability to get high without weed, can only use 4 times a day and lasts for 45 minutes. Red Pill: Gives you the ability to access the internet with your mind, can only use 6 times a day for a maximum of an hour. Pink Pill: Gives you the ability to shape-shift into anything, can only use 2 times a day for a maximum of 2 hours. Grey Pill: Gives you the ability to make someone love you with a single touch, can only use 10 times in your lifetime. Can turn on/off. Black Pill: Gives you the ability to see into the future by a maximum of 5 years, can use anytime, but using your power publicly causes a lot of hassle to your daily life.

My sister offered me this choice. Because that’s what sisters do. I think yellow, no question. Although green and orange would be fun. And black… well, black would be as dangerous as yellow, but hard to resist. What about you?  

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This Counts as Medical Research, Right?

October 26, 2012
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Pill box with the label "Happy Pills First Aid Kit" and a red cross, with the little pill sections filled with lollies of various kinds.

Tuesday Hospitals should not play Gray’s Anatomy in the ER. I think it freaks people out. Doctors petted me and stole all my blood and told me I was weird (not news). Wednesday Me: I have a letter from the hospital to my doctor telling her to… I don’t know, ultrasound me or something when […]

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Don’t Worry Bear

October 23, 2012
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A page from "Don't Worry Bear" by Greg Foley, showing the little bear outside at night, shining his flashlight up at his cocooned caterpillar friend in the tree with a concerned expression.

Don’t Worry Bear by Greg Foley is a book that you should all read. It is about being a bear and not worrying. It is only 24 pages long. It may also be about friendship. But that’s quite deep comparatively, and I’m not sure my head is up to it right now. I think, in […]

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Sick as a Dog*

October 22, 2012
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Against a sickly green background, a dog of another disturbing green lies on the ground next to a tipped over bottle of pills and a glass of water. Caption reads, "Man, it is hell."

Paul S: How are you so warm? Me: Aw, you couldn’t have gone with ‘you’re so hot’? I could have made so many dodgy jokes. My temperature keeps going up and down like a lemming in an elevator but the doc says as long as it stay below ‘hallucinations’ I’ll be fine. So the plan […]

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Clarity is Looking at the Gap Between Buildings and Thinking, “I Can Make That”

October 19, 2012
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Black and white photograph of someone leaping a significant gap between the roofs of two brick buildings.

Me: I’ve finished the washing. I feel like I’ve accomplished something with the day. Paul S: Well that’s good. Me: Yes. Don’t argue. This week has been something of an exercise in frustration. I’ve been fiddling about with the plot, trying to figure out how much of this backstory I have the time and/or justification […]

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