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Ow.

My foot fucking hurts. I feel like the princess and the pea, only I’m no princess, and I feel the pea every time I step on my right foot, and the pea feels more like a flaming boulder then a measly little pea. Like any redblooded American, I am enjoying the painkillers, but I’m finding that they’re really not doing too much more than making me feel stoned without the paranoia. Which means I just…

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it's true — I'm crazy

I like to look

So, I have this thing where I like to look into people’s windows. I guess you could call me a voyeur, but I don’t think that’s quite accurate. I don’t like looking at people; I just like to look at their stuff. That sounds consumeristic, I know, but that’s not how I mean it. I’m talking about cruising down a quiet neighborhood street and quietly peering — for just a second or two — into…

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project 365

Day 93 — Dope

This stuff is keeping me glued to the couch. I found out today that I have to wear this stupid boot for an entire week, which means that the bandaging and gauze wrapped beneath it has to stay nice and dry and untouched for an entire week as well. Which means my foot is going to be disgusting and smelly by the time my very lucky doctor gets to unwrap it. Because, you know, it…

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the family

Day 92 — The Parents

My day started at the unreasonable hour of 5:30 a.m. Parched and morning breathy, I climbed into the back seat of my dad’s truck and directed him toward the Midtown Surgery Center, where we shuffled into the lobby for a fun round of paperwork and network morning shows. An hour later, I was called back and told to drop trou and everything else, pee in a cup, put on a gown, put a paper cap…

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the family

The weekend continues

My sister and her kids are gone, having left behind a carton of chocolate chip ice cream that I’ve now introduced myself to three times (“Hello there, ice cream. You and I have not rendezvoused for quite some time now, and I find that absence has truly made my heart grow much fonder.”) and a very large plastic tub of strawberries that I will dig into shortly, once my stomach figures out what to do…

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