Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:04 pm
Oh Thomas,
I am so sorry that I have behaved in a manner befitting a hex-wish from you. I assure you, it worked. I got the most awful poison oak and had prescription steroids and cortizone cream...did you know you can get poison oak in the winter? Even if you go for a hike after recently fallen snow? It doesn't seem quite fair.
That isn't entirely the reason why I haven't been online, but the rash and the snow were both factors among others that deterred me from getting to a computer to visit booktalk. I profoundly and abjectly grovel in hopes you will forgive me and call off your hex. It is powerful.
The good news: still here, still hale, still happy to know you and everyone here. I hope your winter has been wonderful and full of love and laughter in my absence.
I promise to be more careful. And I do feel you discomfort because when I got into it -- from walking through smoke, I think -- one eye was swollen shut and the other partially. And as bad as the poison oak was, I also had to put up with a tongue lashing from a military doctor who seemed to imagine I had my own private hospital to check into and should not be bothering him.