DR Ginny, I'm sorry about the tooth. What did you do?
DR Elmore, I'm glad to hear today's excursion went smoothly.
DR Ginny needs a good 12-hour sleep. :)
Oy. Vibes for all of that!
I hope you enjoyed my little travelogues.
DR Ginny, I'm sorry about the tooth. What did you do?
We had BLTs for dinner and I think I bit down wrong on some crispy bacon.
DR ELMORE aren't we all just .... freight?
Oh my DR GINNY. Well we all start falling apart when we get into our late 30's.
DR Ginny, I'm sorry about the tooth. What did you do?
We had BLTs for dinner and I think I bit down wrong on some crispy bacon.
Ouch! I'm so sorry.
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DR George, I think this should be the design of your sister's next chicken coop:
Monday morning greetings!
The jackhammering has begun...
My medical appointment this morning was interesting.
They sprayed a numbing agent up my nose, then inserted a scope which snaked down until the doctor was able to see my vocal folds. I decided to watch along on the screen - I mean, why not? It was a bit unpleasant; like an extended COVID test.
In any case, the good news is: no tumors, abrasions, swelling, or other impediments on my vocal cords. They're moving fine. So no surgery required.
The doctor is recommending vocal therapy, with which she has seen positive results. This is hospital-based. Probably a minimum of 4 sessions, and exercises to do at home, of course. So they'll schedule that. I wonder if it will be a ruinous cost.
Anyway, I'm relieved that it's nothing more serious.
Fortunately, I was able to get 2 very important phone calls done before the noise started: one to the dentist about the tooth I broke last night and the other to the orthopedist about the tendonitis that has flared up in my left leg. I see the dentist tomorrow and the ortho on Wednesday. Just what I needed this week...
And I had two very nice taxi drivers, so it all went quite well. And no anxiety or panic attacks.
My medical appointment this morning was interesting.
They sprayed a numbing agent up my nose, then inserted a scope which snaked down until the doctor was able to see my vocal folds. I decided to watch along on the screen - I mean, why not? It was a bit unpleasant; like an extended COVID test.
In any case, the good news is: no tumors, abrasions, swelling, or other impediments on my vocal cords. They're moving fine. So no surgery required.
The doctor is recommending vocal therapy, with which she has seen positive results. This is hospital-based. Probably a minimum of 4 sessions, and exercises to do at home, of course. So they'll schedule that. I wonder if it will be a ruinous cost.
Anyway, I'm relieved that it's nothing more serious.
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My medical appointment this morning was interesting.
They sprayed a numbing agent up my nose, then inserted a scope which snaked down until the doctor was able to see my vocal folds. I decided to watch along on the screen - I mean, why not? It was a bit unpleasant; like an extended COVID test.
In any case, the good news is: no tumors, abrasions, swelling, or other impediments on my vocal cords. They're moving fine. So no surgery required.
The doctor is recommending vocal therapy, with which she has seen positive results. This is hospital-based. Probably a minimum of 4 sessions, and exercises to do at home, of course. So they'll schedule that. I wonder if it will be a ruinous cost.
Anyway, I'm relieved that it's nothing more serious.
Fortunately, I was able to get 2 very important phone calls done before the noise started: one to the dentist about the tooth I broke last night and the other to the orthopedist about the tendonitis that has flared up in my left leg. I see the dentist tomorrow and the ortho on Wednesday. Just what I needed this week...
~~~Tooth and Tendonitis Vibes for Ginny!!~~~
Did he check for polyps?
Our Nothing in Common writers love the two new songs, so in they go. I really felt that the original versions were very wrong for the characters and weren't doing what they needed to do and at the reading that was soooo apparent. So, I talked through the first of them, the mom's song, first with the lyricist, who immediately started sending me new lyrics along the lines of what I said, which I told her not to do until I had the story exactly right. But she gets very gung ho about stuff. What I really wanted to do was have a conversation with Kerry O'Malley, who read the role. I told her my thoughts and she told me hers, which were excellent and from that the story became clearer. So, the lyricist got all that information and sent me a new draft, which was too on the nose and filled with statements rather than words from the heart and character. At that point, I told her not to send me more and that I'd write the tune first. I came up with a tune I really liked - simple, heartfelt, not overwritten, and no way for her to make with a lot of words, so it forced her to get to the essence of the lyric. So, she wrote to that and it got better - then there was our usual back-and-forth with my usual suggestions and by the end of all that, we had that one right.
The father's song was much harder. I absolutely hated the original - I wrote nice, bluesy music for it to match the lyric, but the story of the song was so wrong, so awkward, and came out of nowhere - it should never have been a bluesy feel and we were telling the wrong story. So, first I worked with the writer, who I asked to write a monologue about what I felt we needed to get to. He did, but it wasn't quite there and still had aspects of the old story. I knew I had to write the tune first - that always seems to work best with this lyricist, although we've done nice stuff the other way, too. And I had this really strange notion to take the tune in 1000% opposite direction. So, I wrote what I was feeling, musically, and it was really intriguing to me because of that totally different feel.
Then I felt we had to get to the essence of what it needed to be about and I had this thought rambling around in my head. I discussed that with the author briefly and he agreed with the overall thought and feeling I was having about what this song had to do and be about. I then discussed that with the lyricist. I told her about the tune and then sent it to her and she began doing drafts - and again, we went through our back-and-forth routine until I felt it was all coming from the character, rather than just writing statements that don't sound like the character. I think we did five or six tries before I felt it was telling the story and again the tune forced her to be succinct. The simple notion I had after reading the monologue was - well, there was one line in the monologue that said that the father's father was also a womanizer. That led me to that no matter how hard we try not to, many times we become our parents, and not the good side. It happened to me in a way, early on, and I saw it and stopped it. So, that's what the song became about - that that's a really hard chain to break but we have to and he can already see his son, the Tom Hanks character, becoming like him in the way he treats women. I revised the monologue and cut the stuff that was germane and it all seemed to really work.
And now, they have to do the other revisions to the script that we've already discussed, including a new coda to the ending, which hopefully will provide a better finish and be more satisfying.
Have you heard about the latest conspiracy theory?
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Two weeks from today I get to have my first covid test.
Two weeks from today I get to have my first covid test.
Why?
I am having it at an outpatient clinic vs the hospital where covid has spread between patients and staff.
It has only taken a year but I FINALLY have an endoscopy scheduled for a week from Wednesday.
I didn't actually know that was the test I needed, just that my symptoms were getting progressively worse and I was on the way to needing an invasive test if I couldn't get them under control.
Oy. Covid-free vibes.
I am having it at an outpatient clinic vs the hospital where covid has spread between patients and staff.
Oy. Covid-free vibes.
It has only taken a year but I FINALLY have an endoscopy scheduled for a week from Wednesday.
I didn't actually know that was the test I needed, just that my symptoms were getting progressively worse and I was on the way to needing an invasive test if I couldn't get them under control.
Wow! I've (fortunately) never had to wait that long for a test! Hope it all goes well!!
Oy. Covid-free vibes.
DITTO for DR Jane!!!!!!!
Fortunately, I was able to get 2 very important phone calls done before the noise started: one to the dentist about the tooth I broke last night and the other to the orthopedist about the tendonitis that has flared up in my left leg. I see the dentist tomorrow and the ortho on Wednesday. Just what I needed this week...
~~~Tooth and Tendonitis Vibes for Ginny!!~~~
DITTO!
DR Ginny, sorry to hear about the tooth and leg problems, but glad to hear you were able to get the needed appointments so quickly. Vibes the next few days so smoothly.
I pulled an all-nighter in college to finish a paper that was due. The next morning, bright and early, I had a voice lesson. I got out exactly 2 notes when the professor shut it down and ordered me out of his studio. So evidently it was quite audible.
And I had two very nice taxi drivers, so it all went quite well. And no anxiety or panic attacks.
My medical appointment this morning was interesting.
They sprayed a numbing agent up my nose, then inserted a scope which snaked down until the doctor was able to see my vocal folds. I decided to watch along on the screen - I mean, why not? It was a bit unpleasant; like an extended COVID test.
In any case, the good news is: no tumors, abrasions, swelling, or other impediments on my vocal cords. They're moving fine. So no surgery required.
The doctor is recommending vocal therapy, with which she has seen positive results. This is hospital-based. Probably a minimum of 4 sessions, and exercises to do at home, of course. So they'll schedule that. I wonder if it will be a ruinous cost.
Anyway, I'm relieved that it's nothing more serious.
TCB, yesterday Larry posted a story about a cat that had a job and wore an ID badge. Thus my question last night.
So, I had a craving for Marie Callender's today. Back around June 15th, in advance of no masks for vaccinated folks, they had a big sign saying they'd be back open for indoor dining the week following the 19th. Today, I drove over there to find takeout only and a sign that said indoor dining was only Friday through Sunday from five to nine. I'm done with this branch forever. They are literally the ONLY restaurant that's not fully open and I think people are so annoyed with them that they'll ultimately close. You can't be stupid about this stuff and they've truly been the stupidest in the neighborhood and right from the start.
I pulled an all-nighter in college to finish a paper that was due. The next morning, bright and early, I had a voice lesson. I got out exactly 2 notes when the professor shut it down and ordered me out of his studio. So evidently it was quite audible.
I guess I don’t understand this?
I pulled an all-nighter in college to finish a paper that was due. The next morning, bright and early, I had a voice lesson. I got out exactly 2 notes when the professor shut it down and ordered me out of his studio. So evidently it was quite audible.
I guess I don’t understand this?
A three hour and twenty-four minute gap.
I blame BK today! He posted ONE BIG post instead of a whole bunch of little posts.
I blame BK today! He posted ONE BIG post instead of a whole bunch of little posts.
Then we would have had a three hour and twenty-four minute gap on page 57.