{"id":1395,"date":"2007-02-18T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1395"},"modified":"2007-02-18T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T14:48:00","slug":"bloodletting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1395","title":{"rendered":"Bloodletting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was a perfect morning for a run. Sunny and cold, with fresh snow to look at as I sped past the sparkling lake. By the end of my 9km (1hr 7mins – snowy sidewalks slowed me down), I went to have a drink from my water bottle and nothing came out because the water had frozen solid. Delightful.<\/p>\n

Someone is playing a banjo tune in the apartment next door and it’s making me think of . Sorry I’m missing New York, dearest. I bought tickets for and I to go to Hong Kong in March, so my northeastern US tour will have to wait until at least April. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Finished reading ‘Water for Elephants’<\/a> by Sara Gruen yesterday. Good, but the Jewish villain\/Catholic hero thing made me feel reeeeeally awkward – I’m sure we’ll discuss the role of religion and the whole Polish cultural thing at length in bookclub next month.<\/p>\n

Today, in honour of my period holding off until just after my long run (thanks for waiting, uterus!) I’m starting Vincent Lam’s ‘Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures’<\/a>. First sentence of Chapter 1, ‘How to Get Into Medical School’: “Desperate stragglers arrived late for the molecular biology final examination, their feet wet from tramping through snowbanks and their faces damp from running.”<\/i><\/p>\n

posted a really creepy, terrible news report in his blog<\/a> the other day about a Long Island comic book store employee with a serious S&M fetish who did some bad, bad things. That story was nasty and explicit, but it reminded me of this great comic book called ‘Mail Order Bride’<\/a> by Mark Kalesniko, which is about a Canadian comic book store owner named Monty who gets lonely and buys a wife from Korea, and then abuses her emotionally. The two of them get in a knock-down drag-out fight at the end, and it’s a really raw, sad, well-told story. JVL recommended it to me just before we started dating; it’s a great book.<\/p>\n

is feeling under the weather, so I cooked her some soup and will be going solo to feed Dad his lunch today. I think I’ll make us burritos for dinner. Lactose intolerance be damned, I’m buying the 18% sour cream to go on them, because I could actually see my hip bones in the mirror yesterday. Bring on the full fat! Bring on the stomach cramps! <\/p>\n

Anyone want to come see ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ with me next week? I’m thinking maybe Saturday the 24th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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