Another day at work. I've been slowly bashing away at Tape 2 of the two-tape extravaganza that is the weekly clinic list and answering the unanswerable.
MAN: The doctor's secretary said the referral letter went out! Why don't you have it?
ME: We're having some post room issues.
Translation: Because our post room's full of chimpanzees who eat it, shred it into bedding, wear it as a jock strap or anything but deliver it to the right place. The few times mail actually manages to get into the pigeonholes, it's because the chimpanzees have been using the letters as makeshift frisbees. We can tell because it's completely random and we sometimes get post meant for Dermatology, Haematology or Obs & Gynae. Which would be fine if our patient list was peopled with female haemophiliacs with bad acne, but alas, no. As for the rare occasions when we actually get our post ... ever heard what would happen if seven thousand monkeys typed for seven thousand years? Well, there are fewer primates but hey; this ain't Shakespeare. Although it is an epic comedy of errors in here at the best of times.
Oops. I think my bitter's showing.
Anyway, I'm still oscillating between ideas for my Exalted character. Same basic background will probably remain throughout, but I'm thinking more Illyria than Del/Dru/Agatha at the moment. Except without the blue. I'm sorry, but she looks like the unholy spawn of Smurfette and a cockroach. Thing is, I love the character concept. But I'll say no more about that lest I spoil any of the Brits out there. However, I will ask a question -- does Lorne remind anyone else of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz? Only more camp and in Statue-of-Liberty rotten copper green instead of tin? And with horns? I mean, the Tin Man lacks any other protrusions, because God forbid they make the man with no heart anatomically correct any other how... Is this somehow a suggestion that you can't shag without your heart being involved?
Okay, when you start reading sexual analogy into children's books, you're thinking too much.
MAN: The doctor's secretary said the referral letter went out! Why don't you have it?
ME: We're having some post room issues.
Translation: Because our post room's full of chimpanzees who eat it, shred it into bedding, wear it as a jock strap or anything but deliver it to the right place. The few times mail actually manages to get into the pigeonholes, it's because the chimpanzees have been using the letters as makeshift frisbees. We can tell because it's completely random and we sometimes get post meant for Dermatology, Haematology or Obs & Gynae. Which would be fine if our patient list was peopled with female haemophiliacs with bad acne, but alas, no. As for the rare occasions when we actually get our post ... ever heard what would happen if seven thousand monkeys typed for seven thousand years? Well, there are fewer primates but hey; this ain't Shakespeare. Although it is an epic comedy of errors in here at the best of times.
Oops. I think my bitter's showing.
Anyway, I'm still oscillating between ideas for my Exalted character. Same basic background will probably remain throughout, but I'm thinking more Illyria than Del/Dru/Agatha at the moment. Except without the blue. I'm sorry, but she looks like the unholy spawn of Smurfette and a cockroach. Thing is, I love the character concept. But I'll say no more about that lest I spoil any of the Brits out there. However, I will ask a question -- does Lorne remind anyone else of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz? Only more camp and in Statue-of-Liberty rotten copper green instead of tin? And with horns? I mean, the Tin Man lacks any other protrusions, because God forbid they make the man with no heart anatomically correct any other how... Is this somehow a suggestion that you can't shag without your heart being involved?
Okay, when you start reading sexual analogy into children's books, you're thinking too much.