Month: October 2001

It’s almost like a bad joke, getting sick the day after you apply for health benefits, but here I am, with a fever, sore throat, trouble swallowing, and really nothing much I can do about it but ride it out and hope I don’t need antibiotics. I tried to arrange an appointment with University Health Services, uneager but willing to pay for the visit myself, but they only see students or staff with work-related illness. Is strep throat a work-related illness? God, I hope I don’t have strep thorat. Maybe I should feel lucky it’s not anthrax.

Murphy’s Law asserts that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. My addendum to that: whenever you have insurance, you won’t need it; whenever you need insurance, you won’t have it.

I’m bored, I’m sick, I want to go home. If I click my heels together three times, can I get a real job?

The Monty Python Society, of which I have long been a member, made today’s newspaper. This is of interest, I suspect, only to a select few, but I happen to be one of them, and this is my weblog, so neener neener neener! I only wish they had used this photograph we sent them. It’s of Matt. Please, don’t make Matt angry. You wouldn’t like Matt when he’s angry.

It’s a little embarrassing, but I grew up on the cartoon show Thundercats. I don’t remember it being one of my favorite shows (that would probably be G.I. Joe, He-Man, or, earlier, The Smurfs), but to this day I can still remember the theme song, so I must have watched it more than once or twice. And now I find, thanks to memepool, that there are outtakes from the show, most containing adult language of some kind. There’s nothing quite like hearing the cartoon characters of your youth curse like sailors.

Some more photographs, each of questionable quality, the last two tricks of the light, the dark and the rain. With my new flash card, I am now able to take an obscene number of pictures before uploading to my computer. And I need to do something with them, so I share them here. Anybody out there looking at them?