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doctors questionnaire as poetic form

q: have you now or even smoked a cigarette?

q: drink: socially?

q: do you use recreational drugs?

q: any history of family wanderings?

q: have you had the procedure before?

q: net worth?

q: are you afraid?

q: did you do the proper preparation procedure? solid foods?

q: why do television commercials often show such anger at the requirements of the social world?

q: do you respond well to the procedure? will you now

(etc etc)

update

tomorrow i have a colonoscopy (don’t guess my age on this, you’re wrong) (don’t expect a post tomorrow, 50/50), and today i am on a liquid diet which sucks. i am hungry and in a bad mood :)

dragon quest x is available in english now, with a little finagling, on Steam deck. yes—yes—i read japanese alright, but i never played an MMO before. i have no clue what the hell’s going on with these systems

quote

L&J’s approach divides their readers into two categories. You can, like the authors, consider yourself among the departed, looking on these wooden characters with a gloating scorn. Or else you must be, like these characters, the object of that scorn. Either way, there’s little room for the empathy necessary to make such stories truly frightening. --- blog post about the Left Behind series of book, contemporary to them

there is a nihilism in denying the existence of the Other, huh. this world is very narrow, all outside of it is naught

(i was afraid of these books as a child, despite what the quote there says. i was too young to know, even, that i, as a catholic, would be among the targets of its scorn. maybe, then, i knew if it was true i should be scared)

lists

Foods that contain fiber

  • fruits
  • nuts
  • brown rice
  • oats
  • granola bars
  • green vegetables
  • brocoli
  • etc
  • anything i want to eat today

oops

almost forgot to post!

revision tip for writers: read your stories out t loud in stupid accents! you’ll notice more about how the language works by speaking it aloud in a way different from your habit! you will feel silly as hell but maybe many strongly improved line edits!

this is not a joke!