More than a year after the nationwide release and countless raves, I can finally say that I’ve seen Juno, though now I’m a little bothered by all the love it and Ellen Page have gotten; I just don’t get it. I admired the cinematography and the score, but I cared about every other character in the movie more than I cared about Juno. Rather than smart and quirky, she seemed pretentious, immature, and utterly naive all the same time. Which, granted, 16-year-olds can definitely be, but Juno felt more like a precocious 13-year-old than 16, based on the teens I’ve known. Juno’s been called a “liberated female” character, but I saw a girl who was emotionally detached from the situation and never really came to terms with the whole holy shit, I have a live person growing within me realization. Maybe it’s just that I’ve known someone who’s been in similar circumstances. I also wasn’t happy with how the film glossed over the realities/side-effects of pregnancy; the symptoms that Juno suffered somehow were all presented in a very cute light, like aww, she’s throwing up in the urn and lying about it, hee!
[Note: Spoilers following, just in case there are people who have not yet seen the film]
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Tagged: juno, movies, rant, review
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- April 19, 2009 – 12:20am
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I’m starting to seriously contemplate putting my doctors on speed dial. However, I don’t want to encourage any notions that I might be inventing medical problems for attention, because you know what’s more fun than seeing doctors and accumulating medical bills yet again? Almost EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD.
Since I seemed to be finally back to normal last weekend, I’ve been trying to ignore any pain I’ve had in this past week for the most part, because how can it be possible that I’m not healed yet? Can’t I make myself better from sheer force of will?! No?! Argh, fine, I guess I’ll schedule yet another CT scan then, as suggested by the urologist, although the fact that it’ll be my fourth in less than two years freaks me out ever so slightly.
The silver lining is that I now have advice and opinions on various hospitals and doctors in my area. Need to figure out where you should go or who you should see (in Northern California, around the South Bay)? I likely can help!
(Oh, and thanks so much for the supportive messages and comments, by the way. I do appreciate them, especially in light of the fact that I’m finding myself increasingly obnoxious in the midst of my neverending litany of rants/vents/complaints. It’s like verbal diarrhea.)
Tagged: gripes, health, kidney stone
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- April 3, 2009 – 12:18pm
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AKA “Why You Should Be Good to Your Kidneys” (or, “Why I’ve Been Complaining So Much on Twitter“)
The past two weeks or so have been spent in varying degrees of physical discomfort, all because of a stubborn little stone that formed in my kidney. For most people, the ordeal would have quickly been wrapped up in a few days, but as it turns out, I needed to undergo shock wave lithotripsy in order to resolve mine. What’s thrown a wrench in the entire recovery process though is the fact that apparently, I am sensitive or just seriously allergic to ALL PAINKILLERS. The doctors will prescribe one thing, only to have to add on another medication to combat the effects of the first one, and then when it turns out neither of them are working for the better, the whole process has to be repeated again. In the meantime, I am often in violent amounts of pain while combating allergic reactions and frequent spasms.
This morning I woke up at 4am and was in serious distress vomiting and whatnot until about 10, at which point I fell into an exhausted sleep for a few hours. Now that I’ve determined that I can again keep fluids down, I have gone back to drinking copious amounts of liquids and am resting outside to try and regain some energy, or at the least, peace. Although almost every other day has consisted of doctor visits, today I’ve been rather fragile so we’re just monitoring my status closely.
Having visited doctors many a time over the past few years, I’m extremely tired of being sick by now. Since it isn’t clear what my kidney stone was caused by exactly (with one possibility being the medications I had to rotate through last year) , I’m just trying to be more vigilant about all aspects of diet and exercise in general, although the latter hasn’t gotten a lot of attention yet, due to my often being on bed rest. I cannot wait until I’m better again.
Tagged: health, kidney stone
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- March 16, 2009 – 3:27pm
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As texted over by a friend:
You are definitely not the suckiest person that ever sucked. You are one of the most awesomest people evar! On top of that, you bake awesome cookies.
Until life takes a turn for the better, I’m temporarily copping out of blogging by posting quotations instead since I’d rather try to focus on fixing the problems instead of venting endlessly. But suffice it to say that most of the time, I would probably appreciate a hug — the big giant squishy kind.
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- March 3, 2009 – 8:58pm
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