6/1/05
Think about the last time you were so sick you couldn't pick yourself up off the bathroom floor, and you have a good idea of what May 30 through June 1 was like for me. I'm not going to write much, but as many of you have found out, my inbox crashed at some point in-between barfing, so if anyone has anything to say, re-send it and I'll read it now that my retinas are full of vitreous humor.
Being that sick is like a time machine back to being a kid. I had flashes of the Iowa in the early 70s, even my room at the Chi Psi Lodge in 1989 when I was recovering from dysentery. My bed faced the sunset then too, and I remember the day going by in these little wisps of light: morning, noon, sunset, darkness, misery.
My mom came into my room on Tuesday and put her hands on my lower back to soothe the muscles that had gone into spasm from hours of retching, and the relief was instant and pure, the perfect gift from parent to child. How wonderful it could be, 38 years from now in the year 2043, to do the same for Lucy.
Posted by Ian Williams at June 1, 2005 11:52 PMIck. Sorry to hear about your wretching. Hope that you were able to enjoy some of the weekend! I was thinking. . . ever since I started reading your blog, I noticed that you get sick a lot. You have a delicate constitution, my friend! Take care of yourself and feel better!
Yes, get better! You may not be able to tell, but we really do appreciate it when you don't barf on the keyboard.
dysentery in chapel hill? some dookies must have come over and contaminated the place.
get well soon!
Ian, we've missed you! Glad to hear you're feeling more human. There is precious little worse than a purging illness. We look forward to stories about your bacchanal.
Geez Ian, I haven't seen you that sick since the French guy Kerry, who got fake medals for self-inflicted wounds, lost the election back in November. Great to see you back on your feet though kid, now get out there and campaign for Hitlery Clinton, you socialist-liberal pigs are going to lose a 3rd election in 2008.
What the heck happened to you? Please don't say it had anything to do with the Lobster Bisque. That's my favorite soup in the world- I'd hate to find reason to stay away from it.
Glad you are better...mom's have that healing touch, good thing she was there.
Wow, that swingline guy really likes to kick people when they're down. Nice.
Glad to hear that you're better. Maybe tomorrow you can enjoy some nice chicken broth. (Not to be confused with BISQUE!)
Spandex is a privelege, not a right.
Please ladies, and men if it applies, we do NOT want to see your size 18 pockmarked-like-the-dark-side-of-the-moon ass and thighs crammed in to black thread-bare size 10 spandex with your thong peeking out the top and your gut hanging over the waistband and your camel toe wedgie. It's enough to make us all projectile vomit.
What's with swingline taking every opportunity to be a twat? Ann Coulter apparently made it safe for conservatives to talk crack just to piss people off. Don't even get me started on that king of the twats, Bush. He was trained to disassemble, too!
Glad you're back from death's door?
In the year 2043 Lucy's personal robot will do the massaging. Or she might simply inject a solution containing nanobots that will go directly to, and sooth, the aching muscles.
Ah, better living through chemistry.
Nice new bumper sticker: Proud To Be A Socialist-Liberal!
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