March 4th, 2010

Remember that scene from Total Recall?

This is what I’m in for next Wednesday — and couldn’t be looking forward to it more.

Nasal splints are made of silicon and are stuffed into the nostrils after rhinoplasty or septoplasty in order to stabilize the septum for healing and to prevent adhesion of the healing wounds inside the nose.  They’re totally [...]

March 3rd, 2010

Septoplasty

It’s 4:30 AM and I’m watching a show on Animal Planet about a guy who had a spiny Amazonian fish swim up his pee-hole. Meanwhile, the bundle of gauze strapped to my upper lip sops up the continuous trickle of blood from my nose.  Five minutes ago I coughed up a black tadpole of semi-clotted [...]

December 21st, 2009

The end of another year approaches

Haven’t posted much recently, sorry about that.  Just got home from a trip to NYC to visit friends and family – family got cut out because of the blizzard, but I got to hole up with a friend and watch movies for hours on end, and that ranks in my book as a pretty great [...]

September 23rd, 2009

Rejection Letters / Backpacking the Catskills

Thought I’d share a story and a few photos from my Labor Day weekend backpacking trip to the Catskill Mountains.

August 6th, 2009

This is what really happens when you have a wacky neighbor:

The photo above is the damage to my neighbor’s bedspread after he fell asleep (“passed out” is probably the more accurate term) with a lit cigarette.

I got home from a walk about 11:00 last night to find the entry corridor filled with hazy, foul-smelling smoke.  I called my landlord and tried to rouse my downstairs [...]