Nanoo Nanoo

[blamebrampton]

Start Point: 11,781
Yesterday: 13,012
Today: 13,651
Today's total: 639, plus 1482 deleted words. So sort of 2121, except that I nearly chucked as many already-written bits as I added new. Oh dear.

Helps:
Portuguese custard tarts from the school fete

Hindrances:
Writing 900 words on a garden story. Which don't count for this.

Plus, OW OW OW OW OW MY SHOULDERS! Standard Day After Accident ache from wreching them trying to keep the bike up. Idiotically went to a massage therapist who was not the one I usually see, now I have yet more bruises. AND he spent time telling me how much he loved Atlas Shrugged. Lying there, face down in only my undies, trying not to yelp as he pressed hard on all the bruises I already had in a bid to ease up on my tension (I am only held together by tension!) and trying to be polite as he spoke of Ayn Rand's genius, I wondered if perhaps I was wrong and there is a god. And that god is Loki.

Sample of the conversation: 'If you bruise easily, it's all coming from your spleen. Chinese medicine states that very clearly.' 'Don't you think it could possibly the fact that I am really quite pale and so any bruises just show up very well?' 'Possibly. But the pain in your foot is coming from your gallbladder.' 'Or the fact I shattered that foot back in the late 90s …'

I am booked to see my normal massage person next week. Her loopiest conversation is 'Of course we get on, you're an Aquarius!' I can live with that. And she thinks Ayn Rand is an amoral bore, too.

Comments

[ant-queen.livejournal.com]

Nothing ruins a massage quite as much as having to listen to your masseuse wank on about crap like that. I had a tenuous relationship with my previous masseuse. He was brilliant at massage and reading my body to know how intense to go without causing massive post massage pain flare ups. Unfortunately he was also an acupuncturist, which I don't hold with, but basically humoured because the massage was good. Then the practice he was in started to get more and more woo. I tried to ignore it, but then I got a letter from them proudly announcing their new naturopath who specialises in "the most accurate form of allergy testing" - electro dermal screening. I haven't been back since. I'm still considering writing to them to point out that the letter they sent is a clear case of blatantly false and misleading information, which there are laws about. I will grumble and turn a blind eye to a lot of woo because it doesn't technically break any laws, but I draw the line at blatantly lying that electro dermal screening is remotely more accurate than asking a magic 8 ball.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

ARGH! WHY? WHY???!!!

There is a place on King St that has nice handmade cosmetics, and Dee and I would definitely shop there, if it weren't for the fact that they are rabid anti-vaxers and talk about such almost constantly. Independently, Dee and I both discovered that we had walked out of the shop saying 'I cannot give my money to this level of stupid.'

You realise that there would be people we could make good money from with Magic 8 Ball Allergy Testing. Just saying… 

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