WORRY POWER

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20101129/reversing-aging-mice-101129/

Today I walked into my cafeteria to find that, atypically, the television was playing something other than sports highlights— the good ol’ fashioned news was on. The ticker read: “SCIENTISTS REVERSE AGING IN MICE.”

I went to go buy soup, and when I came back, the story had ended, only to be replaced by something about the Newfoundland economy. Hmmm.

Now, don’t take my word for this or anything, but I got the weirdest sense when I saw that— it’s like a bad sci-fi movie, where that kind of headline pops up in the opening montage, and BAM!

Four minutes later, the Earth is seemingly a utopia, controlled by a mega-corporation with a dark secret. (The dark secret is that youthful bliss has a price— in this case, it comes at the cost of freedom, self-respect, individuality, etc.; basically whatever fits the allegory best. They’re probably killing orphans, I don’t know.)

In other news I am still almost impossibly paranoid and my room is extremely cold. 

my father was a surgeon. he told me:

“there are only two kinds of blood to fear

in this world:

the kind you can hear,

and your own.” 

my mother was an obstetrician. she told me:

“I delivered for a female prisoner:

she had her her baby boy

while handcuffed to the bed.

usually they don’t fight,

but boy, she did!”

medicine is not a field for idealists.

medical children grow up to be cynics.

it’s snowing.

about time, too, I was beginning to forget that MTL is Canada