Review of Robot Scientist’s Daughter up at Escape Into Life and Mythic Delirium featured poet, Plus Being a Human Pincushion
- At March 04, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
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Thanks to Kathleen Kirk and Escape Into Life for this new review of The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, up today here: http://www.escapeintolife.com/blog/the-robot-scientists-daughter/
Thanks also to Mythic Delirium, as one of my poems, “Introduction to Your Own Personal Genome Project,” http://mythicdelirium.com/?page_id=2832, shows up as their March featured content: http://mythicdelirium.com/?p=3275
I needed this good news this morning. Yesterday I practiced being a human pincushion for science as my allergist’s ungentle nurse pushed a total of 48 needles progressively deeper into each quadrant of both arms, resulting in bruising, swelling, and difficulty typing or lifting things this morning (Note: Bleeding disorders, autoimmune problems, and needles do not go together well.) On the plus side, spending a couple of hours that way gave me a chance to read someone’s poetry MS AND watch the X-Files Season 5 episode, “Bad Blood,” about vampires (I was bleeding a lot yesterday, all up and down my arm, so I thought it was appropriate) and that episode made me remember all that was good about the X-Files. Seriously, if you haven’t seen it, even if you’re not an X-Files fan, you should rent it right now. Luke Wilson does an amazing cameo as a southern sheriff. (Dear Amazon Kindle Fire – this was not the first time I’ve watched distracting videos in an unpleasant medical setting thanks to you!) On the upside, they gave me my own room this time instead of making me wait out the two hours of tests in the public waiting room next to screaming children. And now I can go back on my allergy medicine, thankfully.
Today outside is sunshine and blue skies, our pink hyacinths have started to bloom, and Friday I go in to record some poems from the new book for the radio! The time change comes this weekend, which affords us Washingtonians a bit more time to take a walk after work and enjoy this nice weather! I have heard that the rest of the country is due to be blanketed by more snow – including relatives in Cincinnati, Tennessee, and even Georgia – so pull up a cup of hot chocolate, read a good book, and watch a classic episode of X-Files.