Letters To You

[wolven7]

Dear Everyone,

Torn-open burn blisters are disgusting. I'm sorry I'm disgusting.

Yours In Stinging, Alcohol-, Peroxide-, and Neosporin-Filled Pain,

Damien

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Dear Place or Thing Which Shall Remain Nameless,

I gave you over fifty thousand dollars, and EIGHT YEARS of my life. I recruited for you. I went to your fucking faculty/student functions. I have been to the houses of your members. The least you could do is give me the courtesy of a written 'No,' in response to my application for employment.

Yours In Unsurprised Disappointment and Disdain,

Damien

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Dear New Girl At Emory Who Comes into My Coffeeshop,

I think you're cool and all, but I really don't want to have to have the awkward conversation with you where I unsubtly drop in the phrase "...And My Girlfriend..." So...

I have a girlfriend.

Hope We Can Still Be Friends,

Damien

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Dear People Of The World,

For a very long time now, we have been playing an elaborate variant on the game of Let's Pretend, and this variant is called "Credit." In this game, we have all agreed that scraps of paper and complex equations with no actual thing to back them up actually "mean" something, and that that "something" actually determines how we function, as a planetarily interconnected society.

Funny thing? As we've been playing this game, we have simultaneously told ourselves that A) this game is deadly serious and B) this game is completely dependent on how we feel, think about, and react to what happens in the game. When we freak out about the first part, we have effectively stuck our fingers in our ears while going "la la la I can't hear you," to the second. But, if we all decide to to change how we approach this idiotic enterprise, then guess what? The Fucking Thing Changes! It's a gods-damned miracle! It's Fucking Magical!

Jesus Shitting Christs.

Love,

Damien

Comments

[karma-aster.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Broken burn blisters are very much of the suck. Definately do what you're doing with the Neosporin and keep it covered and moist. Helps the new skin grow in more smoothly and cuts down on scarring.

Also? They do make those antiseptic washes with lidocaine. You might want to try that. It helps a LOT with pain.

I accidently brushed up against one of the bagel racks when it had just come out of the oven a few months back and it led to some fabulous second-degree burns down my right elbow. Really, those weren't bad UNTIL the damn blisters broke. Then the fraking thing stung like hell.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, it doesn't really hurt until I go to do the peroxide wash, then it stings like crazy, then goes away again.

I'm hopeful that it won't last too long, and that I'll quickly heal.

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Peace be with you.

And yeah, the fake money thing. I like games. I keep poking at this "time" thing and need to figure out economics.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

When you do, let me know.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I'll make you a puree of aloe & violet leaf if it's still bothering you. Apparently violet leaf is good for skin things, too.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Not still bothering, but still not completely healed.