Whooooa, WhoooaaAAA, I'm still Alive!!!

[academic punk]

Greetings my fellow Roth-maniacs!

First of all, a big shout-out to RG, MAX, RIKK, and NG for sending me PMs and messages wondering where I've been. Thanks! It means a lot!

So WHERE have I been?

Laid up in bed with the fuckin' CHICKEN POX!!! Yup, 35, and just now getting dosed!!! FUCKERS!!!

Even worse, I wasn't even laid up in my OWN bed! I was travelling on business when the outbreak first occurred. And because you can't get on a plane while you're still contagious, I had to stay in the fuckin' HOSPITAL for the past two weeks! AAAAHHH!!! Talk about a recipe for losing your mind!!! No decent food, no true privacy, no friends in the area, no INTERNET!!!

So as a direct consequence, I have been completely cut off from the world at large...now I'm out of my gig (freelance), I'm having a shit-time with my insurance provider b/c this all happened out-of-state, and I was out of my coverage area, etc etc.

SOMEBODY....HEAL ME!!!

[bueno bob]

Dude, WELCOME THE FUCK BACK!! We were starting to get kinda worried about you...

btw, WE'RE AT 10,000+ BRO!!

[academic punk]

shit...see what happens when I'm gone..? 10,000 and you're begging for eleven votes...what a world...

[bueno bob]

Amazing, ain't it? Well, at last look, I was 3 away from the big 100...

BTW, I took post 10,000

[academic punk]

Originally posted by bueno bob


BTW, I took post 10,000

I wouldn't have had it any other way...

so what's been going on around here? anything new? have you seen sith yet?

[vanzilla]

Welcome back man! I was seriously concerned something bad may have happend. It made me realized how strong my feelings are for you. I think when you get healed, you need to come down to Nashville and move into an apartment with me.

Don't ever leave me like that again. I missed you.




WAIT A MINUTE, chicken pox? How old are you? 7?
I take it back. I could never love a man covered in open sores.



Unless it was bob.

[academic punk]

yup...chicken pox...at 35.

After years and years of telling my mom and family doc that I should get the vaccine, and them telling me "no, no, you've been exposed, your sister had them, so you must've too", here I get my revenge...after a fashion.

Here's a conversation from when I was sixteen:

Mom: "Son, what would you like for your birthday?"

Me: "Chicken pox!"

Mom: "NO, don't be silly. How about a brand new Camaro instead?"

Me: "I really think it'd be a good idea for me to get the vaccine..."

Mom: "Tell ya what, I'll make that a convertible, AND I'll give you a state of the art computer."

Me: "But..."

Mom: "And an evening with MAX's goat. All right? Now shut up and eat your vegetables."

Me: "Awwwww..."

[academic punk]

Oh, here'a nother li'l fun factoid:

The doctor prescribed VALTREX, the herpes medication. Worked pretty effectively, too.

(also something for the itch, but with a side effect that makes you feel - AND LOOK - like Terri Schiavo. Not pretty. At all.)

[bueno bob]

ack!

nah, i gotta wait on sith til the crowds clear out...i'm clausterphobic.

[academic punk]

Originally posted by bueno bob
ack!

nah, i gotta wait on sith til the crowds clear out...i'm clausterphobic.

If you're so claustrophobic, how can you stand to be surrounded by so many votes for ya?

[MAX]

I dunno? Sounds suspicious to me.

I still think you had a nasty case of Goat-Clap. :p

Welcome back fucker.

[academic punk]

goat-clap, chicken-pox, pre-med, pre-law, what's the difference...

[Dan]

Welcome back A.P.Did you get Chicken-poxs on your balls?

[vanzilla]

Are you in pre-law AP?

My wife's a lawyer.

[bueno bob]

None, really