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Posts tagged “Star Trek”

Day 58: Worry Dolls

Posted on January 18, 2014

Day 55 and I returned to the classroom for the first time since starting chemotherapy for breast cancer.  I marched across campus double-time, running a few minutes late, my notebook opened to the building and room number scrawled on the ledger pad, my attaché slipping off my shoulder.  As I squinted at the closed double doors of the lecture hall to see if its number matched what I’d written down and tried to assemble the chemo spiel I’d been rehearsing for three days, I heard someone say, “Let’s do this!”  It was my assistant, Andy, who I wasn’t expecting until the second class meeting.  Andy was among the students on whom I’d dropped the cancer bomb in Fiction class last semester.  He knew, and somehow this made it infinitely easier to throw the door back and say, “Hello!”  I did not say “Hello!  My name is Inigo Montoya!” like I’ve always wanted to do, but … some day.

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Categories: Box of Monsters Blog

Tagged: Alien, Breaking Bad, breast cancer, chestburster, Cynthia Hawkins, Heisenberg, mediport, red matter, Ridiculousness, Star Trek, Travolta House

Day 7: Free Dive

Posted on November 27, 2013

Day seven and I’m beginning to think the big guy upstairs wasn’t too happy with the joke I told three weeks ago about my church’s gluten-free communion bread and the Body of Christ being worth half a Weight Watchers point because now Joe and I are sitting in the oncologist’s office listening to descriptions of a port to be surgically inserted under my skin for a sixteen-week round of chemo that will cause my hair to fall out. Then the oncologist excuses herself to take a call. The door falls shut. Joe and I look at each other.

“What do you think? Eighties big-hair wig?” he asks.

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Categories: Box of Monsters Blog

Tagged: breast cancer, diving, Lieutenant Ilia, Star Trek

If the Shoe Fits …

Posted on May 23, 2010

So, my latest at The Nervous Breakdown, If the Shoe Fits …, was inspired by two things:  my surprisingly impulsive denial after a friend said to me, “Oh, I didn’t realize you were that into Star Trek” and then my daughter announcing the other day, “My mind is full of logic, like Spock,” while making the shape of a heart with both hands.  I thought it’d be funny to discuss the ways in which Star Trek intersects with everyday life while at the same time trying to pretend it doesn’t.  Hopefully I pulled it off, and if I didn’t you can just enjoy this photo I’ve titled “Damnit Jim!”:

broken jim
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Categories: Creative Non-Fiction, On Movies

Tagged: Captain Kirk, Spock, Star Trek, The Nervous Breakdown

  

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