by Mir | Aug 22, 2013 | What do I do all day?
(Wouldn’t that be a good name for a sitcom? Or a novel? I think it has a certain ring to it.) Mostly today I have been busy drinking all of the water in the world and then, you know, flushing it out of my uncooperative bladder. But saying “I spent all day...
by Mir | Aug 21, 2013 | Health is overrated, My name is Grumplestiltskin
When I wrote about our trip to Atlanta on Monday and all of the traffic we encountered, I included the tidbit about desperately needing to pee to illustrate how very unpleasant the whole ordeal was. When I reread what I had written, I had a moment of, “Do I...
by Mir | Aug 20, 2013 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I’ll be headed into our first special education meeting of the season later this week, and it should be a real doozy. Chickadee’s guidance counselor has been changed, since last year, and she has a new diagnosis, and we want some additional testing,...
by Mir | Aug 19, 2013 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", My name is Grumplestiltskin
This morning Chickadee had an appointment at Emory for chapter 593 in Mystery Rash: Where Is It Now, And Which Med Student Hasn’t Seen It Yet?, and because getting into Atlanta on a weekday is always an enormous clusterfuck, we left nearly three hours before her...
by Mir | Aug 16, 2013 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
Every now and then I do something where I catch myself and go, “… did I really just do that?” It’s usually because I can’t decide if I’m amazing or disgusting. (In my defense, there’s sometimes a really thin line between these...
