Cassandra Disque | October 28, 2006
My downstairs neighbor is completely off her rocker. At 5.30 this afternoon, I ran my vacuum. She then came upstairs to bitch to my next door neighbor about all the noise I was making with my cleaning. A few hours prior, she was yelling at the people who were moving in above me (and hence, [...]
Cassandra Disque | October 22, 2006
Veronica Sawyer: “No, my life’s not perfect. I don’t really like my friends.” James Dean: “Yeah. I don’t really like your friends either.” Veronica Sawyer: “I just killed my best friend.” James Dean: “And your worst enemy.” Veronica Sawyer: “Same difference.” Veronica Sawyer: “She’s my best friend. God, I hate her.” I hate the way [...]
Cassandra Disque | October 13, 2006
As Savage Minds pointed out, the Horace Miner essay about the body rituals of the Nacirema is a classic example of using anthropology to make the strange familiar the familiar strange. It’s also probably the most famous sociology/anthropology “study” ever written, which is a real hoot and a half. To this day, intro courses love [...]
Cassandra Disque | October 12, 2006
Despite having been a student at my school for a year and a half, I just got around to having a peek at the student catalog. I just learned that as a freshman, you’re only supposed to take classes in the 100s, as a sophmore, classes in the 200s, a junior, classes in the 300s [...]
Cassandra Disque | October 6, 2006
I have a seemingly insatiable sex drive. This is a bit of a double entendre, for while my sex drive is in a near constant state of arousal, it is very rarely sex that I want. Indeed, while I often fantasize about orgasm induced by another person, it’s very rarely a reality, particularly in the [...]
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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