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Fever
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Finally, knew it was coming, there were hints, everyone else at work was sick, there was a Flu, a fever, going 'round, and I'd coughed and ignored many of the same symptoms, the thickly knotted phlegm, the wooliness in the head... But as soon as the pressure of work is off it makes itself apparent...
Fever, hot, low energy, sitting in the hot springs in Banff and they're not nearly hot enough, can't get warm, dreams, disturbed and broken up, by yesterday I'd had it, tired, exhausted, sleeping overly long, can't make it through the most simple of movies, an early bedtime, 12 hours of broken sleep, waking every three hours, bad dreams, of places I'd never been and forgotten, the dismal sense of familiarity, certain I'd survive but to what purpose? Vicks on my chest, fever, sweats, cold in my sleeping bags, hot, sweating up a storm, I need a sweat lodge, a sauna, a steam room, someplace I can be truly warm, not this shivering sweating inside the sleeping bags on my floor...
Another 2 days and life will be restored, but I need some serious resolutions to survive this upcoming year...
Slippery Wallet
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Mine isn't slippery so much as empty, which makes it difficult to grab, fumbling, too slow to pay, the boy's in the same predicament, reaching for his wallet, he fumbles, "It's slippery" he tells me, It's the showdown of incompetent gunmen, slippery because it's so thin, we're all on a budget here and our good intentions are hampered only by our inability to realize them...
The Hateful Eight
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Yet another well intended parenting moment gone abysmally wrong. The boy liked, the girl professed not to mind, I appreciated, not to say I liked, but that I appreciated the whole film - what an inappropriate choice this was, and I thought seriously of taking the daughter to Alvin and the Chipmunks to redeem myself. Thankfully she absolved me...
I'd forgotten how gruesome Tarantino's signature violence can be, and imagined it somehow as being more evocative, less explicit...Oooops.
And so apologies to the wide-eyed daughter, and gratitude that the friend with similar-aged sheltered daughter didn't attend, as that would have required some serious explaining I really wasn't up to...
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