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fflo ([personal profile] fflo) wrote2008-02-03 04:48 pm

Who am I kidding?

Just give me the epidural.

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2008-02-03 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Eep!

[identity profile] infinitepresent.livejournal.com 2008-02-03 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Now maybe if you hadn't gotten preggo in the first place, you wouldn't be in this predicament.

[identity profile] queerbychoice.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
What are you giving birth to?

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
some rough beast, its hour come 'round at last?

[identity profile] shmizla.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
and then what?

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
then i'll have taken an easier & less noble way, and the agonies of whatever seems to want to tear me open/apart will be slightly less acutely painful? serious systemic numbing to encourage the "natural" sense of the grand beauty (one feels one is supposed to have) of what one's giving birth to?

whacks to the face with raw dead meat might help, too, as you (sorta) suggest.

whacking to the face & blows to the head often come to mind in this context.

(btw, i'm nicely numbed & in remission right now, editing and listening to tunes. but the contractions will be back.)

[identity profile] shmizla.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
yea, there's always that thing when you think that being 'clean' is the best way to know about how it works, when it is your own machine that's interfering with the cognition.

one wonders what kind of drugs would work for this.

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't know, but if you got any new ones, let's try 'em out.

[identity profile] shmizla.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
i've never taken any, partly out of fear that it wouldn't be "me" on them. i'm still very afraid and will do anything to know that i can do all the work of maintenance without outside (chemical) assistance.

on a related note, i keep driving by that temple and thinking how we could make some time to go and check out what they're doing in the mornings on the weekends. how's that?

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
let me meditate on that idea. :)

[identity profile] shmizla.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
please do :)

having read the more recent post, i'm starting to think this is exactly the sort of cure you need: a discipline that believes in the centrality (not the marginality or symptomatic nature) of breath to the general well-being.