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04/15/09
then it came to me - charles manson.
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I do have cancer.
I've been battling it off, and on, for the past 5 years. When it is in remission, I have a normal life. When it flares back up, I am effing miserable.
I have a great employer who understands that when I'm healthy, that I will give my all, and when I'm sick, I give what I can. I've survived a few rounds of layoffs, and I'm generally well accepted within my peers.
I've refused to let my wife, or anyone else take pictures of me when I'm in the hospital. I don't mind it if people come and visit me, but, I don't want their sympathy -- I want their well-wishes.
People who abuse, and scam the system like that make me sick.
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Ah, the good ol' days.
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Yes, a lost, innocent time before we became aware that Richard was trading on inside information.
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This may be for another time, on another thread, but I think the current locution is Madonna/Madonna complex.
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Not saying this is a wise way to go through life. Just suggesting that an inability to "see it coming" might not be the precise problem, here.
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Clue: not even remotely emaciated.
The treatments for lung cancer are nasty and have left her with difficulty swallowing.
Clue: she goes out drinking.
Where does she have the energy, what with the radiation and chemo?
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This girl is a bona fide sociopath. I've had the misfortune of knowing her on and off for 5 years (Salt Lake City is an incestuously small place that consists of 10 people shaking hands over and over like an elementary school story problem). The first 2 weeks of knowing her went as follows:
Came on strong. I requited, sort of. In the first week of knowing her, she told me the following:
-She was accepted to RISD with a scholarship in New Media
-She suffered from a congenital heart defect
-She was date-raped by a boy who used the line (a personal favorite that I have used far too many times) "the pants come off now"
-She had diabetes AND pancreatic cancer
This was all in the first week, as in, oh I don't know, 40 hours of conscious, lucid experience.
In reality, Kari was flunking high school, burning bridges at the slash and burn rate of retreating Nazis and running a similar scam with every human being that cared to listen. I was amused for a minute, but after having to endure yarns more noxious and ridiculous than those before it, I finally cut her off.
But, despite this, every couple of years homegirl would invade the lives of a new group of friends, generally going for the weakest of the bunch. The last time was by far the worst. She had convinced several friends (against my in-your-face "don't do it" advice) that she worked for Ticketmaster and had scored them free backstage passes to PitchFork Festival in Chicago. Of course, as it turned out, it was a complete (albeit obvious) lie. Despite this, one friend (sorry Brian) remained...loyally retarded?
After a check fraud scam went awry, honest, likable Brian bailed out Kari (again), posting bail to the tune of $6000. A month later, Kari was off to Brooklyn despite being on that little, totally un-debilitating, geographically-anchoring obstacle known as Parole. She broke parole, missed court dates etc. and left Brian in a lurch for the whole pie. He had to take a semester off school to get money together. Kind of a tragedy, actually.
Anyway,I'm glad I now have a permanent inside joke with half of the world's population. Hope you enjoy prison, Kari (again), and please, for the love of gawd, learn how to tell believable lies.
dh
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Richard, I think we know what this says about you.
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You know what's funny? Chris Rovzar has the exact same jacket.
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He looks a serial killer.
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I dunno, I think BMC's formulation sounds so much more literary.
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I got your joke. I just thought BMC's formulation sort of captured it all. By the way, why on earth were you wearing that jacket? Weren't you schvitzing like a mental patient?
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Ha. Neither did I.
"He looks a serial killer" makes me sound like a genteel Southern raconteur, so I'm sticking with it.
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math is hard.
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Also, are you doing the Molly Ringwald spastic limb dance?
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