Jodi Anderson Writings

mystery disease a

Mystery Disease A -- Further study of subject 122569 

The patient has a history of lapses in memory, difficulty differentiating reality from non-reality, and intended violent outbursts toward both animate and inanimate objects.  Possible triggers of the aforementioned symptoms include heat and humidity, low tolerance for idiocy, disruptions of routine, and extended social interaction.  The patient has had an unknown pain syndrome for approximately eight years.  It seems to plague her relentlessly, except during occasional bursts of manic physical and emotional activity, which are probably just an indication of a brief remission from said pain.  While the patient does not seem at all depressed, her mood is that of a general state of disgust. 

There is no known cause for the symptoms associated with mystery-disease A.  The patient eats a remarkably clean diet, abstains from drugs and most alcohol, and regularly participates in physical activity.  She refuses to discuss social activities and becomes agitated, bordering on violent, when the topic is brought up. 

We have no further recommendations, nor treatment, at this time.  The patient will continue to be studied at regular intervals.  Follow-up in four to six weeks. 

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an ocean

“I took from the absence that you didn’t really even wish to be my friend,” she considered typing.  She felt the pain of he possibly not liking her at all. 

“I can’t stand to disappoint you,” he thought, “and so, I stay away.  I hide.”

“If only you knew that having you in my life, somewhere, is enough,” she thinks to write, but doesn’t.  In fact, she writes nothing at all, just thinks.

He doesn’t write either. 

They never did.  They never will. 

eels and trout

There was a little girl who grew up on a creek called Dell. 

Interested in being proper, she walked on the left side of the road as she made her way down the hill to the bridge.  Once there, she stood on the eastern side and stared into the water, noted animal tracks where the earth met the creek.  She crossed to the western edge of the one-lane bridge and followed the flow with her eyes until it turned sharply out of her sight and beyond the trees. 

She navigated the steep path that was carved from the feet of fishermen years past, but cut instead to the left and crawled under the bridge, where she sat on the concrete base and waited for the occasional car to pass over her head. 

When the little girl noted the first eels of the season, she would then walk up the hill, on the left side of the road before crossing it to her house, and tell her stepdad that the trout were coming. 

lent

child:  What are you giving up for Lent?
me:  Jesus.

the addition of umbrellas and the subtraction of space

When it rains, I watch it from my porch or I watch it from a window. 

As three children run by, going from the end of a street that I can not see to the beginning of another, in the middle of this drenching rain, I think about people that carry umbrellas.  I'm not really one of them.  I sit on my porch.  I sit by my window. 

Sometimes I get wet on the way out of the store when I have shopped for groceries.  I take a deep breath and make a run for it, getting quick to the car. 

I might be seen strolling through my yard for the sake of it all.

I ponder people on busy streets carrying umbrellas.  I think that there must be more space between them because of this.  Does one on a rainy day have to add commuting time for the subtraction of available space on a busy street crowded with umbrellas? 

I sit by my window and I hear the rain pour, long and drenching, and grasp at the diameter of an umbrella, the diameter of an average-sized person, and the circumference of personal space that one who walks on a busy street crowded with umbrellas would contain.  I don't know if people would be slowed by their instruments of apparent protection, or if they should unsuccessfully scurry, and thus travel at their usual, dry-weather rate.  I can't imagine a mathematical scenerio that would increase their rate of speed. 

It is difficult for me to grasp being on a street busy with people and crowded by umbrellas in the rain while I watch the empty sidewalk from my window. 

I am going outside to sit on the porch.

jane seymour

me:  Jane Seymour is on The Tudors?  Isn't she like twice Jonathan Rhys Meyer's age? 
X:  She was one of the queens.
me:  I didn't know King Henry had a much older wife.  
X:  Jane Seymour was the name of his wife.   
me:  He had a wife named 'Jane Seymour'?  I thought they were talking about the actress.
X:  Who? 
me:  Haven't you ever heard of 'Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'?
X:  Haven't you ever read a history book on King Henry VIII?

attention, staff

X:  Okay, here's a trivia quiz about me ... My demon tribe lives rather peacefully with the other local tribes, but when we do fight, what is my weapon of choice? 
j:  Alchemy staff?   
X:  Close.  Staff.

found in a rock cairn

04 march 04  17:05 
To whom it may concern : 

The first day of our exploration into uncharted territory was a challenging and treacherous one.  Early on we faced great obstacles:  a cloudy, ominous sky, heavy in pressure that twisted and tormented the body; badly drawn maps with inaccurate information that led our fleet in circles, then in figure-eight's, followed by flowing cursive that spelled out 'doomed'; and, a failure with one of our imporant gauges, which leaves us to wonder if our vessel will make it much further.  The constant struggles have caused us much hardship, both mental and physical.  Because of the extreme conditions, dementia has begun to set in.

So, eight hours after beginning our mission, I am placing this record, here, in a rock cairn.  It is our greatest hope and comfort that someone shall find this message and, if you please, send help immediately. 

resurrection

I was resurrected briefly. 

Let me tell you, as sweet as the taste of life was, I'd rather not have known it than to experience that bliss and then roughly return to death.  I held living in my hands one ... more ... time before laying the dreams, again, to rest.