Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Curse of the Bird

Upon arrival home from our most recent trip, I had to seek out medical attention for a number of maladies.  For one, I had difficulty breathing deeply.  Secondly, it seemed as though a flock of microscopic geese with sharp acid coated wings had taken up a migratory route that included most of my upper body.  In the last 4 weeks, I have been diagnosed with Pneumonia, Pleurisy, an ear infection, and a strange digestive disorder that leaves me contorting across the couch, eating no fewer than 5 Activia yogurts per day.  Unfortunately, spokeswoman Jamie Lee Curtis is never far enough from the forefront of my mind, and their jingle seems to loop in my head perpetually.

My kitchen table looks like a meth lab crime scene, with an impressive assortment of pill bottles, syrups, antidotes, inhalers, and nasal sprays.  My newest ailment?  I cannot hear out of my right ear, and I have no idea why.  At this point, the newer maladies become mere footnotes and nuisances.  Since I cannot exercise due to these poor damaged lungs, I am resigned to 2 or 3 walks around the block per day as a feasible and manageable workout regimen.  Such a decline in my active lifestyle paired with little to no retreat in my customary Herve Mons Pave du Nord (cheese) consumption, means that the weight will come.  Thank god I am engaged.  Sorry Kristin.  At least, I have yet to lose my mind, not entirely anyways.

So how did this streak of illness come about?  I have numerous theories on the matter, as I should, seeing that an entire month has lapsed for me to ruminate on the subject.  While scanning my Cairo photographs, I came across one of a bird standing on a sand dune.  Immediately, the moment replayed in my mind, as if on vintage Super 8.  Our guide, Essam, to me, "Oh...you should not have photographed that bird, Egyptians find them to be incredibly bad luck."  I remember thinking about deleting the picture right then and there, but thought about how ridiculous that seemed, and moved on.  That night, I contracted some sort of food poisoning after dining at Laredo Tex Mex, a pathetic themed Cairo eatery.  A friend of mine told me that American Indians used to believe that each time they were photographed, it took a piece of their soul away.  Perhaps, he theorized, that I now carried the tortured soul of this bird I photographed around with me.

Do I believe this bird has something to do with my illness(es)?  No, but it is worth noting that I hastily deleted every picture of this bird from my SD memory, notebook, desktop, external hard drive, online picasa gallery, and online flickr gallery.  Just in case, I told myself, just in case.

2 comments:

  1. Though I tend to not recommend people do wild things omega replica watches in nice watches. I don't have many issues with the watch, but I have a few quips about the plastic band. One thing I really do like is Cartier's fake hublot sale use of quick release on the case for the connectors. You can easily eliminate the connectors (or diamond) without any tools from the case. That is a good touch, tag heuer replica uk and the system on this watch successful. Actually, the band release mechanism was made and patented by IWC, which is the machine used here I believe. hublot replica sale IWC is a sibling Richemont Group watch brand along with Cartier, and IWC licensed this technology to Cartier. I included a nice rado replica uk closeup image of the band release mechanism. The band is fine, but the hold is where the issue is. First, the machine of tucking in band excess to hide it is good theoretically. However it uses a basic tension system here with nothing really securing it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. شركات الخدمات المنزلية بجده التي تقدم خدمات نقل عفش مع الفك والتركيب بالضمان تلك هي افضل واحسن شركات نقل عفش واثاث بجدة تمتلك امكانيات كبيرة لأعمال نقل العفش والاثاث في مدينة جدة وما جاورها من مناطق تابعة لها وقد نضطر قبل نقل العفش الى نظافة المنزل الجديد قبل نقل الاغراض اليه من الداخل ومن الخارج وذلك بالتواصل مع ارخص وافضل شركه تنظيف منازل بجده متمكنة بأعمال التنظيف العام للمنازل الجديدة والمنازل المفروشة مثل تلك الشركات شركة تنظيف كنب بالبخار بجدة تقدم امكانيات غسيل الموكيت والكنب في الموقع لكي يتم تعقيم المنزل ومن الأفضل ان تقوم بعمل مكافحة للحشرات الموجودة بالمنزل بواسطة احسن وافضل شركة مكافحة حشرات بجدة تلك التي تتعامل في مكافحة الحشرات ورش المبيدات وتستخدم مبيدات آمنة ومضمونة ونحتاج ايضا الى تنظيف الخزان وذلك بالتعرف والتواصل مع افضل شركات تنظيف خزانات المياه بجده التي تقدم افضل الخدمات الجيدة في تنظيف وتعقيم الخزانات لكي تحافظ على الماء نظيفا ومعقما اطول فترة زمنية ممكنة لكي تكون مياهك نظيفة فان افضل شركة تنظيف خزانات بجدة المضمونة ومستعدة لاستقبال مكالمتكم في أي وقت وطلب الخدمة من شركات تنظيف الخزانات بجدة المضمونة والتي تقدم خدمات باحترافية

    ReplyDelete