Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Cary Grant's Filing System, Chinese Doctors, and Chinese Waiters



Don't you just love that? If nothing is moving, run your mouse over the photo. I have so many papers that need filing and so many forms to fill out and a few grievances to take up with Anthem Blue Cross that some days I feel like whimpering. I also have a hacking cough, bestowed upon me, I guess, by Oliver, and it seems like I've been sick off and on for over a month. I made an appointment to see my Chinese doctor this afternoon. For some inane reason, I haven't been to see her in over six months which is probably the reason why I feel so utterly unbalanced and unhealthy. I'll lie on her little table and listen to her Chinese-inflected chatter while she sticks needles into me and tells me that I have too much spleen or too much heat and then I'll close my eyes when she walks out the door and start thinking about Jackson the Chinese waiter I worked with so long ago in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I'll remember how he permed his hair for me and how he thought I looked like a Bond girl and how much mileage I've gotten out of those two things for nearly thirty years.

7 comments:

  1. I love everything about this post.

    Everything.

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  2. If I knew the Chinese words for "Peace Be Upon You" I would say them to you.

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  3. boy, that picture is wiiiiiild! how'dya do that?!?!

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  4. I love the flying papers. Funny how the most thoughtful comments that stick with us can sometimes come from the most unlikely places. Hope you feel better soon.

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  5. Well that's it - I'm off to go hone some Cary Grant skills!

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  6. This is my work day - where I can magically keep the papers afloat - but at home they scurry off into dark corners, like the Monster Book of Monsters, and I invariably find them 3 wks after they were to have been filled out and returned. And they bite.

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