Somehow, no longer possessing a cable subscription and thus no longer watching commercial television, I have completely missed this... "colonoscopy sweepstakes."

Me too, and I'm not entirely sure I want to know what it is.

Are people really filling up the schedule with a ton of frivolous colonoscopies?

Well, I mean, I don't have much else going on this weekend, and it sure sounds like fun, with the whole sweepstakes thing!

Dude who would want to win the colonoscopy sweepstakes? That's right up there with the mallet-to-the-head-a-thon.

Ugh, I feel for you, Ginger. I hope they schedule it ASAP and with no more fruitless phone calls.

My father actually has had a fair number of colonoscopies(His grandma did get cancer there, but, if I have the right grandma, kind of at the point where something would take her out anyway, like after eighty.) I keep waiting for technicians to say he'd get better results not keeping his head up there, too, but, you know, dang managed care.

Oh, how frustrating, Ginger!

Last night I dreamed I visited Jilli in her mansion/castle!

Hee! Your dream sounds like the sort of life I would have. Not-very-serious zombie attack, so let's have a puppet show? Sure!

At least he isn't ruining something you wanted to do.

No. Shit. No one wants to get one of those. The fucking cleanse drink you have to do prior to the colonoscopy is the WORST. Oh and BTW, I woke up in the middle of mine.

Horror. show.

Here's to quick scheduling Ginger. I wonder if you could travel a bit out of town to get it done?

eeek! le n, that is terrifying!

Ginger, may you get the colonoscopy scheduled with no more tsuris. And you have all my it's-nothing in concentrated form.

Maria, you're in my thoughts today, too.

sj, all good wishes with the house inspection, and getting rid of the fumes of cleaning chemicals.

I used to be surgically precise and lethally effective on the phone for work, but I've always resisted making calls. I run out of things to say very quickly when someone calls me. Never used IM. Video chat was unrewarding. I like email. Get to it when you have a chance and get back to me.

I have never been other than at the point of breaking out in hives using a posting board that wasn't a similar format to TT, or b.org. All that green-or-orange-or white text on black, or whatever that evolved into, and reading up from the bottom of the screen? Too weird.

I like the journalesque qualities of LJ and DW. Where I can comment quickly on something seen elsewhere, or post an introspective ramble, and most of it up for discussion should anyone care.

FB and twitter give me the eyetwitches with the ADD and center of the blast feeling. Needless, I never liked raves. Or loud parties, even. I'll be over here on Tumblr, thanks, filling my spirit and expressing myself with gorgeous pictures and pithy socio-political statements.

I...like the humans, primarily in smaller doses. And, over there.

The fucking cleanse drink you have to do prior to the colonoscopy is the WORST.

You'd think the time you spend in the bathroom would be the bad part, but downing that much liquid in a short period of time feels like a form of water boarding.

After a considerable amount of time being told my call was important, I finally talked to a nurse who said she'd talk to the doctor.

I have never gotten used to being able to do something else while I'm on the phone, either

Like, in your house? I don't have the capacity for that, plus I rarely talk on the phone outside of work to anyone other than my parents or best friend.

Though doing other things on the phone is great if you're on a conference call.

Ginger, lots of timely-appointment~ma. I hate that it is so difficult for you.