elizaskinner.net – the jambox

Some of my unofficial rules for my own writing here include no writing about search terms, no writing about not writing, and no writing about my sickness. The search terms thing is just to avoid what I see as hack internet comedy – “eliza skinner robot baby!?!? Who wrote THAT craziness!! Har har HEEEE HAWWW!” Plus it’s too meta: I’m writing on the internet - you’re reading on the internet, let’s not spend our time picking the lint out of that navel and the search engines that got you here.

I don’t like to write about not writing because I don’t like to read it. When a blog I like updates after a long dry spell, I get all excited until I read “Sorry for not writing more, guys – been so busy…”. What? Who cares!? Where is the funny?? It’s like going on a date with someone who spends the whole night talking about why they weren’t dating you before. Don’t be a drag!

And speaking of drags, I’m sick. And that’s why I haven’t been writing. And I never wanted to write about it for the same reason I never told people about it for the first 3 years after I had been diagnosed: it is gross. I have Ulcerative Colitis, a chronic digestive condition sort of like Crohn’s disease, but only affecting the large intestine. If you want the nitty gritty on it, google it – I’ll just say it means a lot of pain, and travel is a bitch. I have periods of remission and “flare-ups” and am currently in the midst (or hopefully tail end) of a pretty long, pretty nasty flare.

So I am breaking some rules to hopefully jump start my writing. I want to be doing more than sitting around feeling sick, but it’s hard to write without writing about what’s actually going on with me. Hopefully after getting this boulder out of the way I can go along with writing about nonsense as usual.

That said, if you got here by searching “Fumbling coochie”, there should be 3 holes – any more or less and one of you is in the wrong place.

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