rangerBlog - March 9th, 2008

04:26 pm - Free Association Samples, Limited to Sinus Episode Recovery Periods

The girl next to me in class Thursday had that thing that's going around. Nothing remarkable about that- I had it two weeks ago. She'd been hit hard by it because she had another medical condition, but now she was in the final phase- the sniffles.

I listened to her sniffle and snort all through class half-aware. My own sinuses were gumemd-up, not leaky-- and I hate that. I wished I was in her phase- with that sweet painful-pleasure sinus pressure that comes when you snort through mucus-filled lines that every time leaves you reeling, just a little.

So with 15 minutes left, as conversation turned to students individual projects that I didn't have to pay attention to, I jotted a short note on a piece of paper and slid it over to the girl next to me. She read it, stared at me for a long second and then (because she's also the quirky intellectual-artistic type) she shrugged and started jotting notes.
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