• on rotation

    on rotation

    You know, I was going to do another themed “on rotation,” but instead, I’m going to use my tried and true “YouTube thought I’d like this” method. I think I’m confusing its algorithm with all the genres I’m listening to because Sugarcubes is one of the weirder bands they’ve introduced me to (hi, young Bjork!),…

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    I’ve been having kind of an existential crisis over the past couple of weeks, and part of it is due to the fact that I turn 40 in a few months. I know, I know, age is but a number, but 40? It’s kind of a big deal. Like … okay, the concept of being…

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    on rotation

    It is somehow a week into the month of August, and yeah … I don’t know how it’s this late in the year because it was literally just January. So to celebrate (?), I’m gonna do something a little different for today’s “on rotation” playlist. I’m going with Songs I Would 100% Sing in Karaoke…

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  • 144

    Until my mid-thirties, I didn’t realize I’d been raised evangelical Christian. Yeah, it was a weird time for me for multiple reasons, but I digress. Over the past several years, I’ve been deconstructing, which has been both incredibly embarrassing but also empowering, but mostly on the side of the former because like … I actually…

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    on rotation

    I know I said I was gonna kinda take a backseat and figure out what I wanted to do with this site, but YouTube music has really been giving me a lot of excellent music selections that I want to share with everybody. Granted, I’ve also been listening to a bunch of random music that…

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  • 143

    A lot of shit has happened over the past 30 days. I’ve been busy with work, completed ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) training finally, was invited to be a bridesmaid to my friend’s destination wedding next year (eep!), and I got Covid a second time, which basically depleted the rest of the PTO that was…

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  • 142

    142

    Well, I went to Bonnaroo this year! Will I go back again? Probably, actually, if the lineup intrigues me as much as this year’s did. Was it as iconic as other years? I mean, not really. Sure, Sofi Tukker, Lil Nas X, Rina Sawayama, the Pixies, Tyler Childers, Kendrick Lamar, and the Foo Fighters gave…

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  • 141

    I feel like my kidney stone became a part of my personality about three months into dealing with her. People would ask me how I was and would often include, “is Karen still with us?” Anytime someone would ask me to go somewhere with them, I’d be like, “well, I hurt a lot so I…

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  • 140

    Back when I was first being treated for Karen the Kidney Stone, when she was merely 8.4 mm and when I didn’t have hydronephrosis, I felt it was a little weird that I wasn’t being referred to a specialist, especially since the kidneys are finicky fuckers, but I kept my mouth shut and took the…

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  • 139

    So I went to the emergency department (ED) today literally right at the beginning of my shift because I 1) was diaphoretic, 2) was tachypneic, 3) had tunnel vision, 4) was dizzy, 5) was nauseated, and 6) felt tingling/numbness in my fingers, right before I got blinding flank pain and nearly passed out in front…

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