Monthly Archive: September 2026

23
Sep
2026

IT IS SAD TO GO TO PIECES LIKE THIS BUT WE ALL HAVE TO DO IT*

Is having yearly colonoscopies a thing I have to look forward to now, like having yearly mammograms because I’m a woman between the ages of 40 amd 74? It was the same home test 2 years ago that started me on this health crisis trip to colitis (not really, but it feels like it, and I like having SOMETHING to blame). I’ve had 2 colonoscopies now (and I just had to fucking GOOGLE the plural of colonoscopy because my brain and my fingers kept typing colonoscopys) and I can assert that while having a colonoscopy is no fun, having to...

22
Sep
2026

MORE THAN LUCKY

I’m pretty grateful that I’ve never lacked for friends. Even though we moved around all the time when I was young, I was in school and made friends pretty easily everywhere we went. When I started university, I didn’t know anyone, but my years as a military brat stood me in good stead and there was a built-in way to meet people and make friends with all the women on my dorm floor and in my classes. I moved to Chicago after college with a friend, and made friends at the company I worked for. It seems to me in...

19
Sep
2026

THE STUFF I’M UP TO

Apart from the fact that work was crazy busy and I was drowning in PPTs, this was a quiet week and it’s now a quiet weekend. Anders was gone part of Monday expecting to stay one night in Tingsryd but ended up coming home in the late afternoon. I had NO plans any evening so had lots of quiet nights. The only appointment I had was at Malmö hospital on Thursday to get my latest dose of Zessly (my colitis meds). The nurse asked me again about the initiative they are driving to get people to administer their own shots...

14
Sep
2026

BRATBABY DAY AND A PERFECT LONG WEEKEND

This past long weekend was lovely. Macbeth at Malmö castle was great, if freezing once the sun disappeared under the roofline. It struck me that I’ve never actually seen Macbeth. Not sure why not. I’ve seen Hamlet a bazillion times and many of the comedies and romances as well. I knew the gist of the story, and I know most of the most famous quotes from the play. Anyway, the theater group that did the performance were super, though they must have been freezing, especially the woman who played Lady Macbeth; in her mad scene she was wearing a thin...

07
Sep
2026

TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN

Every time I think I’ll be better about posting more often, a week slinks by, and I’m left feeling guilty in its wake. Oh well, no one is reading anyway. Then again, if I really wanted readers, I could return to LiveJournal, or market this blog. I could post that I have posted on FB, but I must not really want readers since I haven’t done it, right? I know my brother reads once in awhile, I know 2 friends read once in a while, and I think my sister does. Maybe my kids once a year? I don’t actually...

01
Sep
2026

A VERITABLE PLETHORA* OF ANALOGUES

This is the way my brain works, and the kind of thing I amuse myself with. In the car on the way home, I was suddenly thinking about the fact that there are so many words for “not straight” and I wasn’t even referring to the ones that have to do with sexual preference. Have you ever realized that? English is SO good at hoarding synonyms. This was brought on, by the way, because I was listening to Christine & The Queens song Tilted. slanted, aslant, tilted, leaning, diagonal, inclined, askew, sloping, offkilter, angled, canted, crooked, lopsided, unbalanced, warped, listing,...

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