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One Year Out

Mom reminded me this morning that a year ago was my last day of radiation, so today's officially my first anniversary of finishing treatment. Apparently I was more excited about chemo ending, since I did NOT have today in my own calendar. But it'll be nice to enjoy July without radiation burns in my armpit… Continue reading One Year Out

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Star Wars, Frankenboob, and Anniversaries

A year ago, on May 4th, I sat for my last chemo infusion. In the middle of the pandemic lockdown, bald, eyelashless, and really tired of being really tired I went to chemo alone. 16th Voluntary Poisoning (Eyelashless, by the way, is honestly way weirder than being bald because I looked like my human-skin-suit was… Continue reading Star Wars, Frankenboob, and Anniversaries

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Dear Aliens: I am NOT an English Teacher

Ok, I'm beginning to think it's not spambot AI's commenting on my posts. Either this is a spy speaking in a code I haven't broken yet, or aliens are attempting to learn English via blogs. Examples below are from my spam filter this morning. Please note, aliens, I am NOT a good source I have… Continue reading Dear Aliens: I am NOT an English Teacher

life · Myths and Monsters

Of Course it’s Perfectly Normal

Saturday I was doing some random straightening/picking up (because even though my house is never spotless I try not to always live like a cave troll). If you've been here a while, you'll know I have a sickness when it comes to books. My current TBR* pile is actually multiple piles and numbers well over… Continue reading Of Course it’s Perfectly Normal

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A Friday Morning Drama in 5 Parts

I see you gave up your "healthy eating" bullshit and decided to get Starbucks today. I like the ham on those sandwiches too, you know. ALSO I'M STARVING TO DEATH HERE. HEY I like wrappers! That smells like ham! C'mon Ragnar, I'm dying here! I hate you. <crying softly> nobody loves me. Ragnar won't share… Continue reading A Friday Morning Drama in 5 Parts

life · Writing

Things I Don’t Want to Write

This post sucks. I'll be funny again tomorrow. Feel free to ignore it. Also I should be writing my support handover documentation for my project, but I needed a break from technical writing to have a minor meltdown. So I have this book proposal in the works, and I don't want to write it. I… Continue reading Things I Don’t Want to Write

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Because Velociraptors, Horatio – Episode Three

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet, Act I, Scene V, 184-185, Shakespeare, about 400 years ago, but STILL a couple million years after dinosaurs. Today in our "what the actual fuck is going on in Hastings" post, the trilogy is completed with an unlikely… Continue reading Because Velociraptors, Horatio – Episode Three

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We Do Not Lick the Chicken, Horatio – Episode Two

If you’ve been reading lately, I mentioned there are some...interesting...sights on my normal route to Hastings. If you haven’t been reading lately, no judgement (ok, not much judgement) and here you go, if you’d like to get caught up: https://jessicasettergren.com/2021/01/21/this-is-not-what-i-meant-horatio-episode-one/. So, maybe a mile and a half after the Blair Witch for stuffed animals tree… Continue reading We Do Not Lick the Chicken, Horatio – Episode Two

life · Minerva

Today Is World Cancer Day – Get Your Bits Checked

First, I accidentally wrote "bitch" instead of "bits" the first time, so that shows you where my head is at today. I almost left it that way. Second, this week a year ago I was in between the end of my Red Devil chemo treatments and the beginning of Taxol. If you have been around… Continue reading Today Is World Cancer Day – Get Your Bits Checked

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Seriously…Don’t Do This

I hadn't gone though the spam comments on this blog in a month or so, and had some "I don't want to work NYAH" time this afternoon. There were 175 comments in the spam folder. Of them all but 4 were the exact same phrase, in Spanish, from different bots. I don't care muchly about… Continue reading Seriously…Don’t Do This