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Here are two ‘outtakes' from my diary post at http://johnsiddique.blogspot.com
I didn’t think they would fit there, so…

Sea and Sardonica:

Everyone, (or at least two people i know) are off holidazing to Sardinia (where the sardines or more correctly the sardinese come from, i believe). My geography being what it isn't i have no idea where the place is but it must be costal coz i know DH Lawrence wrote something called Sea and Sardinia. I think it was the sequel to Goodbye Mr Chips (ha ha!).

Either way it is clearly this year’s destination of choice. i await postcards with baited breath, and that's NOT a joke as anyone that knows me will testify, i love postcards, just received a top notch one from Iceland and also one from Amsterdam.

Then again, who really knows anyone? I had a very strange conversation today with somebody that I thought knew me fairly well and… wow… they were so wide of the mark, I actually would like to be that sort of person – they were painting me as some sort of adventuresome rake, and reducing my friendships to the crudest possible terms. Now, ok, if I was young then… well, who hasn’t sown some wild oats (and dumb) in their day but c’mon people this is 2010 and I HAVE NO LIFE! LOL! I’m an anti-social git who has gone out about 3 times in as many months and always runs home before turning into a pumpkin or losing a slipper.

Do I really come across as the shallow caricature they clearly think I am? Holy hell, I guess 3 times is still too many, I should just avoid people altogether… wails, sobs, gnashes teeth – stops gnashing suddenly, gotta go gentle on them ivories, yessir.

Teeth for two and two for – one for – oh crap

Why so gentle on the dental, you ask?
Well, yesterday was dental time again as I had to go n for some tests on my jaw – apparently I clenched it so tight that I damaged it (exciting update, I just lost a filling, bloody great heavy silver thing, right here and now while typing!! Back to the dentist I go! My God that was weird timing! AIIIIIII!!!) There’s a sort of right side fracture or something. Anyway, the upshot is ‘ouch’, hence the happy world of painkillers (see below).

Actually it’s making me nervous; I already know that my lurgy has been revealed as fluid in the lung, i.e. some kind of pneumonia (ha! I’ll moan all I want!) So I now have infection-a-phobia. Dentistry, it’s the one thing – I can take all forms of Doctoring and medical fun, honest, but dentistry gives me the willies, big time.

Now, where was I? Oh well, yes, ranting, ok – people and their perceptions… well, some people can surprise you I guess is all. I miss my friend Julie 0 right now; she calms me down better than anyone and without even knowing she’s doing it. I think she must have naturally tranquilising pheromones.

P for...

Painkillers, deep joy, by the Goddess, yes – ask the universe nicely and ye shall receive. I feel almost human again. Just had fun scribbling a semi-delirious piece full of nothing but the letter P.; It’s not exactly LITERATURE. (or even as good as the last thing I banged out,) but I’m enjoying doing these quick fics and coming up with prompts for myself, like a game. I wrote something for my lj (might have been the most recent couple of fics, I can’t remember) that worked around the word ‘awry’ which is just a word I like the sound of really, like Dennis Potter and ‘elbow’. P for… Potter? P for… pastiche? P for… the taking?? LOL!

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thanks to john (snappy dresser and sharp, sharp writer) for opportunity, sibilla luna for musing and prompting