Category: Intrapersonal Communication
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Happy Birthday What Smells Like Pee
I have tens of tens of online acquaintances — what facebook calls “friends” — who have never met me in real life and probably wouldn’t care much for me if that were to change. Several of them were kind enough to throw kind messages at my “wall” on my birthday, because when there’s a birthday, facebook will just not. let. it.…
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Dark All at Once
When I’m not sick, it’s impossible to remember how sick feels. I’ll have bold but naive notions of fighting through a bad cold or a flu. Like I can simply will myself to action. Then the achy happens. The unearned muscle soreness. The pressure behind the eyes. Can’t sleep, but hurts to read or watch TV. Just lie there and moan like…