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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart
“Remember the good old days when everyone...
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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart
“Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens.
Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.”Full Story: The Atlantic
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So I’ve been lagging on the methotrexate posts. This usually means it’s a good thing. And then it became a bad thing.
So I’ve been sitting on taking 15mg a week, and that’s been working really well. Then all of a sudden, I started to get that familiar itch. So familiar, I didn’t think twice to ask myself what it was. And then I started to panic.
What started to happen was the return of the spots, the return of the itch that never dies, the fear that yet another therapy didn’t take. Great. I thought about calling my doctor to update her, but I thought I’d let it ride and see where the disease was going to take me. Funny, isn’t it. I’m so used to riding it out that I didn’t think to call my doctor. I was going to see her in two weeks, and who knows, maybe it would turn around. It did, sort of.
So I decided to bump the dose up to 20mg. My doc and I discussed it and she felt that it was a good thing to do. So whereas I was stable and not needing to get labs done twice a month, it was time for me to get labs done weekly again. I’m at the facility so much, the parking lot guy doesn’t charge me anymore. Pity the sick girl. Thanks dude. I really do appreciate it. Parking there is expensive.
Anyway, so I’m back to weekly blood labs, and the dose got bumped up. My doc asked me what happened, and I said, “oh, the students came back to school.” So basically, it’s work. Eep.
Oh well, that’s life. I’m feeling stable right now, but I’ll update you in a week to let you know how it’s going.
Char
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
- Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
- Once you’re done you can throw it away.
- Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
- People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
- Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
- Destruction is a variant of done.
- If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
- Done is the engine of more.
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You know what, say what you will, but this track is full of love, and as a parent, I cosign that feeling.
Jay-Z’s daughter on a track. #wow
- Bambina: I am going to start a bakery.
- Me: Oh nice, what are you going to name it?
- Bambina: Costco.
So here we are, five weeks in. Things being the way they are I wound up with less than my normal dose. I left a msg for my doctor, but things being the way they are again, I haven’t heard from her yet. No biggie.
I am very happy to report that the part of my body that is most difficult to clear is almost clear. There are still stubborn spots, and there always will be, but I’m feeling really good about my decision to take this sometimes scary medication.
Just never read the side effects.
Apparently all sorts of bad things can happen with medications, and legally, I suppose, they have to list each and every single thing that’s possible.
What has been one of the more bothersome side effects is just being knocked out tired most days. My normal want to stay up late is now severely tested around 8PM. Not fun. But life’s demands require me to slow down, and this only helps it happen.
On the good side of things, clear skin is clear skin. It’s interesting to see myself with “new skin” - and as I’m getting older, it’s also equally interesting to see how my new and normal skin has aged - no longer all snappy and elastic, not as smooth, and the color of it all has changed too. With psoriasis clearing and going away, it sometimes takes on the appearance of bruises (it’s darker than my normal skin tone, not so much the black and blue). Ask me and I’ll show you one day.
Well, that’s the good news. Bad news? Not so much. Let’s keep it that way. Happy 2012 all. Be safe, be happy, and be creative!
Char
Heath Ledger as the Joker skate boarding over Christian Bale as Batman while they take a break on the set of The Dark Knight.
You can all quit your lives now. Single greatest picture in the history of pictures and internet.
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