Cassandra Disque | January 27, 2006
I did one of these the night before I moved to Greenbelt (and promptly had my car stolen) in 2003. Just like then, it’s a Friday night, my friends are djing tonight but I don’t feel like going, I’m spending the night alone and moping, and I’m fucking hating on Belle & Sebastian. We all [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 27, 2006
I’m supposed to be putting the very final last pieces of detritus in boxes to move out tomorrow to my friend’s basement. Instead, I’m lying prostrate in bed, tummy full of orange juice and a head full of cantankerous plans of last minute adolescent-style rebellion: “I hate this city, I’m tired of this place, I [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 22, 2006
One of the things I love/hate about Washington, DC is how it is very much two separate worlds in one city. One is Washington City — Federal City, Diplomat City, the capitol of the free world — the center of which lies in Capitol Hill and the federal politicos. The other world are the residents [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 18, 2006
Dr Maude is now on his way back to Australia. I spent last night dreaming of gorgeous blue skies, the feeling of birds of paradise on my fingers, and the sounds of kookaburras. Torturing myself, in otherwords. I’m so motherfucking pissed off with myself; I want to be in sunny, summer-filled Brisbane right now, doing [...]
Cassandra Disque | January 4, 2006
Today the DC city Council solidified the no-smoking ban for the city’s restaurants and clubs in an 11-1 vote. The ban will go into effect next January. I always said I’d put roots down in a smoke-free city. I had thought New York, as they were the first in the USA. Scotland is on their [...]
Since 1996, my life has been a long journey of visiting one doctor after another. I look more or less fine, but I'm not. My daily pill count is like playing the dozens with a hospice patient. One doctor will say I'm doomed, and send me to another for treatment, but the treating doctor will find nothing within his or her area of practice that can be treated.
My life is better than a comedy, better than a drama. Anyone who has done this knows what I mean when I say that you have to not only know the rules, but also play the part in order to be allowed in the game. Most people find what we go through in the medical merry-go-round to be unbelievable, which is why I call it "The Drag of Gimp."
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