Let\u2019s start with today\u2019s prompt\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nervousness. Write about what last made you really nervous.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You know, I don\u2019t really know what makes me nervous anymore. I\u2019ve been through so much, I really don\u2019t know what more there is that could really embarrass me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s things that happen that once would have been a big source of shame that, on account of my condition, I really can\u2019t control<\/strong>. Does my disability make me a bad person? Umm, maybe. Probably me from a decade ago would have been completely unable to understand it, because I did really think there wasn\u2019t much I couldn\u2019t do if I really needed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I left radio in 2005, I was very much at the point where I was saying, \u201cthis isn\u2019t working.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Would I end up going back to school? If you\u2019d told me I\u2019d end up married to someone much younger than I, and very afflicted with MS, I\u2019d have thought you were nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Same goes for if you\u2019d told me that Donald Trump would be elected President. (Hell, that would have been true two years ago.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what inspired this prompt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow I\u2019m off to Georgetown School of Medicine for consultation about potentially being used as a research subject in whatever they\u2019re doing for multiple sclerosis research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They can do whatever they want to me. If some short-term discomfort can make this nightmare end, okay, I\u2019m willing to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, that\u2019s tomorrow. Up-and-back on Amtrak is a long day, but at least I can do that now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hell, me taking Amtrak at all would have evoked the \u201cyou\u2019re nuts\u201d response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Facebook seems to be especially-good at bringing up bad memories, too. Today saw pictures of my destroyed apartment back in 2009. This is the first thing I wrote after the storm. Cold November Rain<\/strong> – 12\/1\/2009 So, yeah, I\u2019ve slacked off again, but I have a good fucking excuse this time….<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the remnants of Hurricane Ida turned extra-tropical, and became a Nor\u2019easter, well, Norfolk (and me, personally) got hit pretty hard. It\u2019s been a wild few weeks, and my apartment still isn\u2019t fixed. My dollar damage was just below my insurance deductible, but…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Four days without power I ended up doing work at the radio station in the middle of the storm. They lost several machines during the power weirdness, and I spent time getting them back running. They\u2019re still using a spare computer of mine as their mail server. What else was I going to do? Not like I had anything to do at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still don\u2019t know when my bedrooms are going to be fixed. Plaster down. Mildew. Stained carpets….<\/p>\n\n\n\n In brighter news, we\u2019re going to see the Saints play the Redskins this weekend. In DC. It might snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can I catch a break sometime?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the midst of all the chaos, I did, however, finish up the two year project from hell at work. Ironically, a disaster recovery project…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notes:<\/strong> Ahh, that is so not cool. \ud83d\ude41 Let\u2019s start with today\u2019s prompt\u2026 Nervousness. Write about what last made you really nervous. You know, I don\u2019t really know what makes me nervous anymore. I\u2019ve been through so much, I really don\u2019t know what more there is that could really embarrass me. There\u2019s things that happen that once would have been a big source […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Would I end up on the Gulf Coast trying to do my part in rebuilding after Katrina?
Would I be dead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A week without hot water
Two weeks without laundry in the building<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have to take two buses to do my laundry, so that last complaint is vetoed! \ud83d\ude1b The rest of it does suck, though. [donut] 12\/1\/2009 8:47:41 PM
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Hope you had a great time at the game!
[.Red] 1\/4\/2010 2:29:01 AM\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"