HOW MANY SHEIKS AND HOW MANY WEEKS?
If this were a LiveJournal account (which it isn't. Ha!), and I had a "currently listening to" fill-in-the-blank feature (which I don't have and don't particularly crave. Ha ha!), I think I'd have to list as my reply: Where In The World And Where In Time Is Stephen Colbert Going To be In The Persian Gulf?
Seriously, I've had that disturbingly catchy 30-second song stuck in my head for a solid two days now, and it's not going away. Even more disturbing, I don't particularly care if it goes away. It's that catchy--though, like all things, your mileage may vary should you decide to tempt fate and listen to it yourself.
In other news, today saw the closest thing I've had to a doctor's check-up in...well, years. Emphasis on the plurality of said "years." I'm not entirely sure if I've even had a check-up since my family moved to Alberta, and any other hospital visitation was usually ER-oriented and involving either Hand Foot & Mouth, or a slight altercation between me and something sharp and pointy...with sharp and pointy winning.
The I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-check-up was surprisingly quick, since I haven't suffered anything serious in years (save for the Hand Foot & Mouth...stupid viruses). On the other hand, I'm getting a barrage of blood tests done just to make sure I haven't had something fiendish sneak up on me over the last few years. As a result, the following conversation ensued as the nurse was prepping me for blood extraction.
Nurse: "Now we'll just get you ready. We need a few vials for the blood tests."
[The nurse proceeds to pick up a large handful of vials from the box with my name on it.]
Me: [counting at least 6 vials] "Uh...are all those for me?"
Nurse: "Oh, no."
Me: ^-^ "Whew!"
Nurse: "There's still a few more I have to get out of the box."
Me: o.O;;;;;;
[The nurse grabs another handful of vials, these ones even larger than the previous group.]
Me: [now counting almost a dozen vials on the counter. "Do I at least get a cookie after this?"
This whole situation became even more inadvertently comedic when, after filling up 7-8 vials, I started having trouble filling up the last few at the same pace. It was like my blood had gotten exhausted from spraying into the vials and was taking a quick break. The nurse had to tap each of those vials in turn to help speed along the procedure.
I have never been so grateful for having a decently higher than normal pain tolerance, and no issues with needles. But the blood-letting is over now, and all I have to do is wait for the test results to come back saying I'm fine except for one peculiar error wherein the test said I apparently have monkeypox. (Knowing the way technology tends to glitch around me, I wouldn't be entirely surprised to find even my blood has the ability to frak it up.)
Today's Lesson: after having longer, shaggy hair for so long, suddenly having it cut really really short brings so many other facial features into perspective. Like how bushy my eyebrows look. Seriously, it looks like I took two fuzzy caterpillars and glued them to my forehead!
Labels: hello nurse now put down the needle, where in the world and when in time is Stephen Colbert's song going to get out of my head?
posted by Phillip at 7:34 PM
It's Coooooooming...
Were you aware that Anime North 2009 is just two weeks away?
I wasn't. It didn't sink in until I sat down and realized, "holy crap, in two weeks' time, I'll be spending this evening at Kevin & Donna's, making sure we have all our stuff packed." This also means I need to make a shortlist of swag-to-buy, since Mel's and my Con budget is a lot tighter than usual this year (thank you recent health care modifications to the Canadian tax system...) and I need to make the most of what little cash Mel & I have that won't automatically go into paying for the hotel room.
But even still...hoorays for AN09!
In other news, I have made the mistake of buying Mel a Kimmidoll as a surprise gift. Now she's eyeballing the collection, which is rather vast. It'll be like collecting the classic Pooh alphabet letters all over again--and they took over 2 years of gradual buying before we got all 26.
What is a Kimmidoll? Well, they're kinda like dolls, and kinda like
yamato-nadesico bowling pins. And while they may not hold the comedic value of an utterly confuzzled Psyduck, they're a lot cooler to collect than Pokerats.
http://www.kimmidoll.com/Labels: Anime North 2009 is coming so hide your children, night of the living dead Kimmidolls
posted by Phillip at 6:15 PM
