Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2023

  • 1960s Sexytown

    Remember the innocence of the early summer, when the new wig was dubbed Sexytown and replaced Beachy Hitler and I had not yet been possessed by the pelvic demons or been cursed by a bladder infection for my sins? That wig was on sale recently, and I decided to buy a backup, for when Sexytown…

  • Temptation 2023

    When they weighed me for the clinical trial, it was in kilograms, not pounds. I am bad at math, but I knew the rule that you double the metric system, so I heard 130 kilograms and calculated that I was 260 pounds, which is a personal worst. I am also bad at hearing. She said…

  • TWIL: Pronouncing names

    I had no idea that some foreign languages don’t stress one certain sylablle in each word as English does. I heard this from a woman telling me how to pronounce her name. Say it was Rashida. I was all caught up in if it was: Ra-SHI-da or RA-shi-da and she said her language (which is…

  • Trial: Son of Spartacus

    Well, I am well and truly in the clinical trial now. I started yesterday. I got three things. I got a Covid test and a Covid antibody test and maybe a first dose of something that might protect me. I got a chance to be smug when someone asked me how my day was going.…

  • Re-arranging the Novel

    Well, I’ve finally listened to the voice that said, twice now, “Move the Midpoint twist so it’s 12% in.” Things are much more interesting. All the exposition is compelling instead of mildly interesting. Building tension comes at you fully built. Of course, that means the front half is bloated, but a lot of it can…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/17

    This week Hunky Gary went from this: … to this. There are two reasons this looks odd: I can fix some of it.

  • Sunday Night

    I had a lovely evening last Sunday night with four numbered friends: Friend #2, #3, #4, and #.75. It is incredibly difficult to get these friends together in the same space, so when #.75 called the meet-up, and then all the others smoothly said, “Yes, I’ll be there,” I was suspicious. “Horseshit,” I thought, delicately,…

  • Drug Muddle

    When I had two dogs, I never knew who fouled the house. It’s the same with medication. I’m on antibiotics plus this new incontinence medicine, oxybutynin — and I can’t tell which is causing my side effects. Well, side effect. If I eat more than half a meal my stomach stops digesting and then ……

  • Oh Let’s Hope Not

    So supposedly the trial people were going to call end of this week. They did not call. Just as I wondered, huh, why wouldn’t they call, I read that theres a new variant of Covid. I remembered the Omicron variant rendered the previous incarnation of the trial drug useless. And even though this new drug…

  • TWIL: Cipro Can Kill You

    Gary’s guilt over the bladder infection drove him to the Facebook and the internet, and he came back with news that a common antibiotic used for bladder infections, Cipro, can destroy your tendons and probably even kill you. “They stopped giving me Cipro years ago,” I said. “You know, probably because of the tendon thing.”…