Monday, March 02, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A Sphincter in Need
Sphincter needs:
Sphincter needs improvement
Sphincter needs to be separately repaired
Sphincter needs a simple in-and-out catheterization
A hypertensive Sphincter needs to be interpreted with caution
Sphincter needs to be massaged
If you decide to try it, I hope you'll share with me what you discover. Will you need a toupee? Orange juice? Or merely a psychic reading?
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Are You There, Blog? It's Me, Sphincter.
One new disturbing Sphincteric trend is that I have been reading a lot of disaster books. I mean, I’ve gone looking for them specifically. I don’t recommend that you try this at home, unless you enjoy freaking yourself out. I can’t seem to stop myself, however, and have now resigned myself to it. My latest is The Circus Fire by Stewart O’Nan. It is not a happy story. Burned children, toasted grannies, but luckily, all animals escaped that one. I may soon have an encyclopedic knowledge of disasters. Now there’s a feather for my cap. I can feel your jealousy from here.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Busy and Nothing to Show for It

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Forgive My Ignorance
- for-give
/fərˈgɪv/ verb
–verb (used with object)
to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
to give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.).
to grant pardon to (a person).
to cease to feel resentment against: to forgive one's enemies.
to cancel an indebtedness or liability of: to forgive the interest owed on a loan.
verb (used without object)
to pardon an offense or an offender.
forgive. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved November 29, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forgive
I don’t understand how forgiveness works. I mean, I get how you can agree to let something go. But, that doesn’t mean that whatever occurred was OK. It just means you will try to get by it, right? But, does it also mean that when you think back on whatever occurred that it shouldn’t still burn your ass? Because if it didn’t burn your ass, that sort of implies that it (whatever action) was somehow OK or justified. Which it probably wasn’t. Which is why it upset you in the first place. But if it does still burn your ass, then you haven’t REALLY let it go, have you?
OR
Not feeling resentment or upset about something that hurt you would imply a certain neutrality to the situation, an ability to disconnect from the events. Which if you were truly disconnected, likely would not have resulted in your state of offense. So, you wise folk of the blogosphere, what’s the deal? How does forgiveness work? I can't seem to nail it down here.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Introducing...
Matilda! A shy, tiny gray and white girl with a little black spot on her nose. She's been pretty skittish up until last week. Suddenly, she's gotten brave and is starting to make herself at home around here. Her interests seem to include:
- Hiding in the closet
- Admiring herself in the mirror
- Squeezing into small spaces
- Hissing at Buckwheat
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thankful
I, for one, feel like I've had a crap year. Which makes it all the more obvious why I feel thankful. I am thankful for family and friends, who are there for me through thick and thin. I'm thankful for the life I had and for the one I have now. I'm thankful that I feel hopeful about the future, my own future and that of the country. And I'm thankful for you guys who read this blog, who for some reason give enough of a hoot to check in and see what's up with me. I hope you all have a wonderful day.
(It looks like things are finally coming under control in Mumbai. And I'm thankful for that, too.)
