Headed for Cleveland

On Sunday morning I’ll be departing on a long drive headed for The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio to meet with one of the nation’s top specialists in the world of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy. I haven’t seen it, but I heard the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy featured a patient with this condition. I will go through a full day of testing to determine if I qualify for a septal myectomy (an open-heart surgery). There is a very good chance I will qualify, at which point I will be scheduling the surgery for this coming Spring. Today was spent trying to work out approvals, etc. to make sure I’ll be covered for all this. Quite a headache. I disagree with

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People. People who need people.

It’s been 10 days since Circuit Theory “broke up” and played their last show. It’s been 4 days since I witnessed a woman crossing the street get struck by a speeding car, who never stopped. Kinda having a hard time getting that out of my head. Thursday will mark one month since my grandmother’s death. I’ve been thinking lately about people in my past. I’ve been thinking about how we can have people play such integral roles in our lives; to be friends and/or lovers with someone for whatever amount of time and then just separate like a split cell to go in totally different directions, never looking back. It’s kind of amazing that we work like that, y’know? We

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Haircuttery Sucks

A lthough the people there are typically very nice and friendly, it is my theory that they are taught a handful of current styles and depending on what you tell them, they default to the closest style they know. Let me give you an example! My last 10 cuts or so were all unsuccessful attempts at getting something different from the “short on sides/back, little longer on top” cut. But I keep brushing it off. So, I walk in last evening after letting my hair grow out again a little. My bangs were passing the 3″ length and down to my eyebrows. I was asked what I want and explained I wanted to keep this length on top. If anything,

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Hey Little Girl

“D id you want to know…… a secret? Because I know one and it is soooo good to hear it! Did you want to know what it schwas? Ok. I tell you what it shwas.” My band has been scheduled to play our first show! As a band, we aren’t even announcing it yet until this weekend but you special few are getting the news ahead of time so you can plan accordingly. As you can imagine, a first show is a lot of pressure and can make one fairly nervous. It’s important to make a good impression on a venue by bringing out a lot of people. It’s important to have a lot of people clapping and whistling and

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