More chemo tomorrow - and a new nurse alas.
Still everyone I've met to date has been both efficient and empathetic; rare qualities indeed.
Have a final check in with Dr Hermann - the man who did my biopsy (for a mere $37,000) today. Hoping to get a final all clear from him, if only because it's finally cold here (-4C outside) and I don't fancy doing the trek out there again.
Short entry this one.
Nick went home on Project Runway yesterday - Daniel looked alarmingly blase throughout, midget asian woman was dressed up like a filipino mamasan, South African bird did another outfit that looked like 'last year at Gap' whilst Santino skated on ever thinner ice with a glued on jump suit that lost a sleeve on the runway.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Monday, February 06, 2006
Superbowl ads
Had some students over from the UK on Friday.
I set them a 'superbowl ad' assignment and had them come back in this morning - and boy were they disappointed.
For those of you who don't know - the Superbowl is the biggest advertising bonanza in the US. A sport game during which 1 minute of airtime costs $5m dollars. Accordingly marketing dicks are pumped, inflated and waved during the game. It's 4 hours during which America gives a damn about advertising and it's always a let down.
Superbowl extra large (40 - XL, geddit?) was a HUGE flop.
We had a diet Pepsi can using a Diet Coke can as a stunt double (the diet coke can gets crushed, haw!);
We had a Toyota ad so sickening I went looking for my left over Kytril
KID daddy why do you drive a hybrid
DAD for the future, it uses two types of energy
KID like you with Spanish and English?
DAD yes
KID then why did you learn English?
DAD (smug look into rear view mirror) FOR YOUR future
We had P.Diddy, we had Jessica Simpson, we had Jay Mohr, we had Leonard Nimoy, we had Fabio(!)
We had an avalanche of C list celebrity and D rate 'humor'
We had Dove campaigning for real beauty by begging us to send money to ugly kids (or a 'self esteem' fund)
We had Pepsi (again) informing us that it's brown and bubbly.
We had Kermit whoring it for Ford (he's green, so is the hybrid)
We had an end of the pier with the Nolans and Dooby Duck type dancing 'spectacular' for Burget King - the woman dressed as a meat pattie drew the shittiest stick in a poo-ey pile)
We had men being stupid for Bud Light, women being busty for whateverthehell.com
We had Clydesdales (big horses) for Bud (hurrah!) and a pretty good sheared sheep as streaker gag
Worst of all the world's best agency ripped off JWT Thailand for a Hummer spot, knowingly or not
An total and utter waste of time, I told people at the office that my Grant Mitchell meets an un-touped Liberache look was the result of my having torn out my hair in frustration at the sheer waste of it all - and they believed me.
Thank god for Pizza Hut - pricking at Jessica Simpson's pomposity with a shot for shot remake of her 'this pizza with 26 additional cheese pockets is made for swallowing' (I kid you not) ad - starring Ms Piggy! Yes, Ms Piggy.
Maybe there's hope yet
I set them a 'superbowl ad' assignment and had them come back in this morning - and boy were they disappointed.
For those of you who don't know - the Superbowl is the biggest advertising bonanza in the US. A sport game during which 1 minute of airtime costs $5m dollars. Accordingly marketing dicks are pumped, inflated and waved during the game. It's 4 hours during which America gives a damn about advertising and it's always a let down.
Superbowl extra large (40 - XL, geddit?) was a HUGE flop.
We had a diet Pepsi can using a Diet Coke can as a stunt double (the diet coke can gets crushed, haw!);
We had a Toyota ad so sickening I went looking for my left over Kytril
KID daddy why do you drive a hybrid
DAD for the future, it uses two types of energy
KID like you with Spanish and English?
DAD yes
KID then why did you learn English?
DAD (smug look into rear view mirror) FOR YOUR future
We had P.Diddy, we had Jessica Simpson, we had Jay Mohr, we had Leonard Nimoy, we had Fabio(!)
We had an avalanche of C list celebrity and D rate 'humor'
We had Dove campaigning for real beauty by begging us to send money to ugly kids (or a 'self esteem' fund)
We had Pepsi (again) informing us that it's brown and bubbly.
We had Kermit whoring it for Ford (he's green, so is the hybrid)
We had an end of the pier with the Nolans and Dooby Duck type dancing 'spectacular' for Burget King - the woman dressed as a meat pattie drew the shittiest stick in a poo-ey pile)
We had men being stupid for Bud Light, women being busty for whateverthehell.com
We had Clydesdales (big horses) for Bud (hurrah!) and a pretty good sheared sheep as streaker gag
Worst of all the world's best agency ripped off JWT Thailand for a Hummer spot, knowingly or not
An total and utter waste of time, I told people at the office that my Grant Mitchell meets an un-touped Liberache look was the result of my having torn out my hair in frustration at the sheer waste of it all - and they believed me.
Thank god for Pizza Hut - pricking at Jessica Simpson's pomposity with a shot for shot remake of her 'this pizza with 26 additional cheese pockets is made for swallowing' (I kid you not) ad - starring Ms Piggy! Yes, Ms Piggy.
Maybe there's hope yet
Sunday, February 05, 2006
This is me
'30 minutes of frenzied 'Jude with a razor' action later... mess with me not face optional
This was me
This was me at 10am - scalp itching, hair falling out faster than Leena Zavoroni's during a trip to Chernobyl
Hairless
Woke up yesterday morning with what felt like a sunburnt head. Touch it and 'youch'. Most odd, thought I, my head seems to be on fire and my pillow seems to resemble Captain Caveman (or perhaps Fatima Whitbred) - how can this be?
It turns out of course that the doctors were right, that it takes about two weeks for your hair to start falling out and that I am going to be bald here.
In truth the hair loss is quite comforting. I've felt so well during all of this that you do start to secretly suspect that perhaps you're uniquely immune to the drugs, or part of a placebo study or something similar. Evidence that this stuff is doing what it's supposed to do is very welcome - and the prospect of getting to shave my head is making Judith monsterously excited.
That's about it. After doing full days at work Thurs / Friday plus a couple of decent walks and stuff with the dog yesterday was a write off - an 18 hrs of sleep day. Much brighter this morning however and ready to take on the world
It turns out of course that the doctors were right, that it takes about two weeks for your hair to start falling out and that I am going to be bald here.
In truth the hair loss is quite comforting. I've felt so well during all of this that you do start to secretly suspect that perhaps you're uniquely immune to the drugs, or part of a placebo study or something similar. Evidence that this stuff is doing what it's supposed to do is very welcome - and the prospect of getting to shave my head is making Judith monsterously excited.
That's about it. After doing full days at work Thurs / Friday plus a couple of decent walks and stuff with the dog yesterday was a write off - an 18 hrs of sleep day. Much brighter this morning however and ready to take on the world
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