Over the course of the previous year, I have now inserted ~200 "Fleet" glycerin suppositories, each containing 2 grams of glycerin, into my rectum, despite being diagnosed with "Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea," concerns about rectal bleeding (mild to moderate, and never brought to the attention of my primary care physician or gastroenterologist), painful hemorrhoids, and fear of societal…
10:03 am: went on a "deep-dive" to find a mood theme that I remember using back when GreatestJournal was a thing. This is sam typing, I'm trying to make Kyle go to McDonalds with me for some breakfast because we don't have much to cook. He's complaining about not having any shorts to wear so I say "go find some!" And the ran up stairs as soon as I opened this blog post. and just now he came behind…
2:55 pm: returned from Hickory with a map of the world purchased from Barnes and Noble. Sam unfolded the map in front of the cat, exclaiming how large the map is and how small Iceland is. He held the map in front of the cat in a teaching-the-cat-world-geography manner. He said, "This is the map," or, "This is the world, do you understand, Yuki?" The cat did not seem to understand and he looked at…
I left the apartment and walked onto the porch to tie my shoes. I looked toward the road and saw our trash bin, open, on the side of the road, near the kudzu. It is trash day and the trash was already picked up. It has been raining, and I was concerned about the trash can being left open because now, my fear of our trash can filling up with water was undoubtedly being realized. I told Sam, “I’ve…
woke up to find Yuki laying near the edge of the bed, and thought, He doesn't normally do that, and was worried that if I moved my legs or did an extreme, just-waking-up style of stretch that I would kick him off the bed, but that didn't happen. I wobbled to the bathroom, turned on the light, and scanned the room in a "my morning routine" fashion, scanning for insects and spiders on the floor or…