mimi smartypants
Seriously, though: what's with the penguins?

Archive for September 2013

all the time in the world

SCABBY All my stomach stitches are out and the Steri-Strips are gone, save for the gross tape residue that doesn’t want to come off no matter how I scrub. That shit is tenacious, yo. This morning I woke up, stretched, and then absentmindedly gave my itchy belly-scar a good hard scratch, and scraped off a […]

tycho brahe orders pizza

FULL BEAST MODE IF THE BEAST IS A TURKEY Over the weekend LT took Nora for what was going to be a mellow weekend bike ride, and they ended up going about 40 miles with a stop for ice cream. I’m told that she not only wanted to ride farther, but she exhorted him to […]

the war against frogs

1. In the post-op guidelines: “It is not unusual to feel more fatigued after major surgery. It is common to need more sleep than usual.” They are not kidding. The first day home I went back to bed after Nora left for school and slept for three hours. On some of the other days I […]