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January 31, 2006
On Juan Cole's Informed Comment
Is it just me or is Juan Cole becoming more and more of a partisan harpy? I find his blog useful, but ever more tediously filled with silly US domestic political digs and just tedious partisanness.
Mind you, I reject the Bolshy Right howlers' jihad against the man, who clearly has useful things to say and is capable of stepping back and making well-informed and reasonable analysis (if highly coloured by his classic Academic Left penchants, his comments on economic issues are just plain idiotic).
However, at the same time, in the past few months I find the ongoing vulgarly partisan tone (and Bush as the fault of all error) tedious and unuseful. Banging away at the incompetence of the Bush Administration in Iraq or the Middle East is not hard, it is a target rich environment, but really the sensation of negative spin for its own sake has been growing on me with Cole. Tiresome. Perhaps someone should suggest to him he's getting shrill.
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January 30, 2006
Impressive
This marrow response, the pain is very impressive. I've sucked down the maximum amount of my fine endocet and it still comes through. Feels like hot lead is being run through my bones. A highly unpleasant feeling, this. In case my prior advice has not come how, I really do advise all to avoid getting cancer. It's really very annoying, and while I suppose I could call it character building, I rather feel this small conceit has worn thin, even for me. I do wonder how the white cells are doing, maybe this bone marrow issue is connected to the depressingly low white cell count. Or is the white cell count a good thing? I forget. Well, in any case, it's interesting finding new parts of one to hurt that one did not know could. Actually a bit depressing in a way, but maybe if one ignores the bloody maximum on these stupid pills the bloody pain will go away. Perhaps I'll give the conference call a miss tomorrow, I suspect I am not going to be in a shape to be useful on it anyway. Oh well, only several more months of hell to go, could be worse.
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The Wooley Looney Forum (Anti Davos)
The other thought that comes to mind, are there any amusingly mockable manifestos coming out of this absurd waste of time? I'm too lazy to read through the website. I am moderately puzzled about the Iraq connexion, although I suppose the typical Lefty crypoconspiracy nuttiness with respect to Iraq as a global capitalist plot is the running story.
I suppose these events are why I have never been particularly excercised about the Far Left. They're too absurd and chaotic in general to be a threat to my liberties.
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MENA Finance and News, some interesting notes - Iraqi Bonds, Project Finance &
I would normally place this in 'Aqoul, but I don't want to push down more general conversations.
First, and most intriguing is this one:
Bullish Investors Chase New Iraqi Bonds
Then there is this little dandy,
Mid East becomes project finance hub
and finally,
Scramble for shares in Islamic bank
A few quick excerpts and droolingly ignorant comments on my part:
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For the Language Nerd
I stumbled across this site, in fact I have before come to think of it, but for the language nerd out there, I share this fine small introduction to Maghrebi dialects, part of a longer excerpts on the Arabic language. For those of you who speak Arabic, and wondered why the Maghrebine dialects were such a pain in the ass, here you have a nice intro. Fascinating, I learned a few things, and there was much linguistics mumbo jumbo I did not follow.
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January 29, 2006
Historical Economics, Modern Islam
An item I intend to return to, when more in a right mind:
Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation
Timur Kuran
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 2004
Pages 71–90
Also in conjunction with that article, this interesting essay is worth returning to (okay actually it is typical superficial Poli Sci tripe):
Liberalism in the Middle East: Prospects and Mechanisms of Change
Christopher J. Coyne
Department of Economics, Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
Research Fellow, Mercatus Center
Arlington, VA 22201
ccoyne@hsc.edu
www.ccoyne.com
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Random Observations of Little Value, a fine little note for the SDMB folks, etc.
While I should have sometihng to say about the Hamas victory (but I don't really, I hate talking about the Israelis and Palestinians), I am more moved by my personal developments, and shall blither on a bit as my narcotics are enabling me.
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January 28, 2006
Various Wandering Comments Enabled by Nartcotics
First, I have a new post Chemo strategy.
Sleep. 14 hours or so hits the spot.
Second, I am afraid there is sign of hair coming out. My vanity is possibly unbounded in this area, so I am a bit off put. The military type hair cut spares somewhat, althought it irritates as well.
Third, the freakish medical face mask might grow on me. It did allow me to be mean to an honest inquiry today, which went along the lines of, while waiting for coffee service "Oh, you 're avoiding that flu?" addressed in a somewhat condescending manner (deserved in some ways). It did allow me to respond, "No, I'm dying of cancer." Exageration, to be sure, but it shut the
Fourth, having commenced on the process to obtain a visa for my JV partner, I remain charmed by her total indifference. It is rare to have someone genuinely indifferent to the Siren call of the Great USA, one way or another. A charming feature.
Perhaps a visit from her can inspire another round of what my dear pratike called development porn. There are discussions to be had about various issues in licensing.
Fifth, still grappling with approaches to scheming while cancer ridden.
There are overseas oppies that hit me radar, but how to broach.
The Fund is alivish, but with so many Patriot Act issues I think it fucked.
Another fund potential, but too something..
Core firm, uneven, some regain, but ......
I hate them.
Still, the plotting to stab me in the back undermined by another set of resignations.
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January 27, 2006
Catharses?
One of the more annoying aspects of my medical exile has been the tedious role, as Cancer Boy, to play in being the way point between the various segments of this great Anglo Saxon clan that rarely speaks to itself. The foriegn and domestic parts are all promising visits, even those who've never seen each other, including my Aunts.
This is a most unexpected and undesired side effect of the minor detour that is cancer, as I had previously rather liked their not talking to each other. Worse yet, my JV partner is being dragged into this little frenzy of multi-continental familialness sparked by one inconvenient tumour. I had managed to avoid such in my previous JVs.
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January 26, 2006
It progresses
Although now me white blood count is down in the low double digits. Have been advised to walk around with a face mask. Feel rather queer about that.
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A Collounsbury Lesson on Business in MENA
I've gotten more or less numerous requests in the past with respect to "doing business" out here, etc.
Here is one I distill from recent meetings and my core line of work where it appears my home office is in the process of losing a deal with a major client. Largely because the American side wants to build in all kinds of "best practice" whanking rubbish into the game, without regard to the actual market.
Rather exactely the sort of thing I gather from the seminars and like the gold plated advice everyone from DIFD to USAID to EU (but oddly, rarely France.... hmmm) like to pimp.
In an emerging market you do not need expensive "best in class" and "best practice" - what you need is "better than the other guys" efficiencies, but one's that work in the bloody market with the bloody staffing one can realistically expect. Perfection (even in the ridiculously delusional business sense as personified by Six Sigma) becomes the enemy of the good.
There is my "Lounsbury Doctrine for Business in MENA" (with due respect for Pratike for naming my political doctrine) part One.
Second, don't judge the market opportunity by what is going on in home market, judge it by what is potentially "disruptive" relative to home market and/or export markets - pricing perhaps.
Americans have become obsesses with technology as the source of advancement in business-economic terms, and that's important, but it's not the only thing. Esp. in emerging markets, rather trivial seeming organisation changescan often find a lot of value and export competivity. That's a disruptive change, and in the contect of a lower income emerging market, more useful.
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Development & Means
The Pratike responds to my half-meant statement, "Assistance is political. Now, if the US process can't distinguish between long term and short term objectives, having some bizarro wall between the diplos and the assistance people is not going to help much overall. In any case, I rather suspect Bishop is the sound of comfy sinecures being gored":
Maybe so. I don't know anything about InterAction or the Center for Global Development. But it seems to me that if you want to "depoliticize foreign aid," you ought to advocate that the U.S. funnel more money through international organizations rather than via the U.S. AID pipeline, which is about as political as it gets.
I am at a loss to think of an international organisation where the spending of money is not political as well.
Nor would I think it would depoliticise foreign aid, it would merely politicise the financing of that organisation.
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January 24, 2006
Bangingly silly
An actual comment from investment discussions today that I assisted with:
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January 22, 2006
Bataille d'Alger: Lessons, an open thread on film, terror and Western intervention in MENA.
Having wasted, if I can abuse the verb, much time with the Criterion DVD set The Battle of Algiers, I thought I would see who has seen this, and what opinions among the readers are (regarding either the film, the DVD set or more importantly, the lessons from the film and the situation it describes).
As added context I add this link to a fundamentally interesting Washington Post article which highlights the context in my mind:
Lessons Learned in Iraq Show Up in Army Classes
Culture Shifts to Counterinsurgency
By Thomas E. Ricks
The article itself merits, perhaps, seperate comment.
I note also this article is interesting:
Use Every Article In the Arsenal
Good Press Is a Legitimate Weapon
By Michael Schrage
Finally, I found the interview with Allaire moving.
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Elf Chukr oua nus (slightly edited)
For the provider of my single favourite film, La Bataille d'Alger, ta7t amrek oua elf chukr.
I shall have to perhaps blog about this film - at present I am having fun running backwards and forwards breaking down 60s djezari dialect. At least Saadi Yacef speaks in a manner that is understandable
I note that I am having fun checking the subtitles on the dialect. I like how they rendered it (where the dialect doesn't exceed me - man 60s djezairi dialect is something....).
I also owe Raf Bey a proper response, closest thing to an apology one gets from me, as to his reading list. We have points in common.
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January 21, 2006
Friday Observations II, Stupid Cafe Conversations
Trivial but some Cafe conversations that amused me today.
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January 20, 2006
Various Random Friday Observations
First, I am now capable of walking several blocks again. The removing a chunk of me cancerous infected lungs seems to have done a good thing for breathing - and strength has rebounded from the toxic chemicals.
This allows me to walk places again, which as a great fan of walking everywhere possible, makes me happy. It also allows me to resume my snobbish disdain for Americans tendancy to drive absurdly short distances.
Second, my JV partner has most tediously gotten into a dispute with the servent that is apparently escalting. More peculiarly, I heard about this through me diplo amigos. Why do me diplo amigos know of this? Expat shenanigans. Bloody bored nosey wives.
This implies much rubbish time on the phone smoothing feathers and the like. Problem in that me JV partner has a very MENA attitude towards the help, which is to say not terribly egalitarian nor fair. I rather suspect my absence has made this situ somewhat crisislike. Of course there is adifference in price sensitivity as me JV partner maintains a domestic price framework, while for me most such pricing are so trivial I could really care less.
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January 18, 2006
Narcotics, infrastructure and Expats: Reflexions part I (an ongoing rambling reflexion)
As it was a request, and my narcotics have finally taken away the bone-aches (which I may add are deeply unpleasant) and rendered me giddy, a reflexion on Expattedness, socialising, and infrastructure.
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The Odd Reactions to the News
Still unable to quite get the talking about this bloody disease right. I am getting more irritated with the facile chin up blithering on from certain persons.
In person I have been quite humorous about the whole damned thing, but being constantly advised to be so by others, however well meaning, grates on the nerves.
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January 17, 2006
On Visas and Service, easing the process
A bit of welcome news:
US to ease obstacles for foreign visitors
By Edward Alden in Washington
Published: January 17 2006 19:33 | Last updated: January 17 2006 19:33
Some interesting steps are cited:
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On business: Media Fund
As a side thought, I wanted to let certain readers know that the Media fund which I am advising on is looking at a real closing this quarter. The issue of US investors - qualified of course - interested in on-shore Gulf based came up. Some of you may want to chat with me about context.
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Odd, odd, odd
That I have to, in a bit of a call that angled at resolving some issues, explain Patriot Act reporting implications to a US G staffer who supposedly tracks such issues in the area in question. And I know fuck all about Patriot Act except those motherfucking stupid ass report your 3 degrees of seperation from Osama Ben Laden bullshit requirements that make life miserable while doing fuck all for security.
Of course, I could simply be bitter about the useless extra work.
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Iranian Commentary
By the way, my dear online Zenpundit had a request directed at me, regarding reading on Iran, etc. (in his Persian Post as he amusingly titles it.
As my comment said, I fear that Iran runs rather far away from my personal expertise, interests or knowledge (relative to my MENA knowledge etc), and I don't feel I have much value added in this area.
However, I do know that some of my colleagues have somewhat deeper knowledge than myself. Perhaps I can entice some of the lazy non-posting scum into lifting a finger or two and giving a hand, instead of being such useless hangers-on.
I could of course ask politely, but then I suspect you'd think I had too much in the way of narcotics.
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Random Thoughts on Business in MENA
When in a conference call regarding business proposition in region, you know you have an issue when one of your local actors insists that they need exemption from US Patriot Act. (As if one can grant such, bloody idiot 'aroubi fools) I rather dislike the stupid extraterritoritality meddling of the Act myself, but at the same time when this is raised as an explicit issue in negotiations it does set off the little red warning lights.
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Random Thoughts - News
Now that I have been back in the United States since a month and a half, a random observation.
That random observation is that US TV and in particular news has become atrocious, far worse than I recall. Bloody entertainment TV disguised as news. Even CNN and HN.
What is odd is international CNN has a rather better standard.
It renders, for me, ironic, the fulminations I read online from US bloggers about foriegn news sources.
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On MENA Business and Lounsbury Blithering On
Suggestions? I am not feeling inspired by anything in particular, and after deciding playing with data in my excel and blithering on about MENA in a semi-coherent is more interesting than learning to play games, maybe I need a little MENA business comment project.
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24
The TV show.
With my dear familial hosts I watched a good portion of this show, which they seem to be madly fond of.
An amusing show, I suppose, but my take away was this: "magical thinking." Fun, and all that, but strikes me as the sort of thing that leads Americans to support cowboyish actions like firing off missiles willy nilly and the simple minded idea you can resolve stuff in "24 hours."
Yes, entertainment, I know, but I nevertheless have the niggling sensation that these kinds of shows (and movies) help reinforce magical thinking among the public (and even others) about terrorism, resolution of the problems and the like.
Or maybe I am simply an arrogant elitist snob with little respect for the masses (well we should not engage in false dichotomies, as of course this is not a binary choice).
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Crap
Goddamned pain. Bit worried about this pain thing, not supposed to be happening, Drs mentioned might show bone involvement which makes me nervous. Narcotics, lots of narcotics.
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January 15, 2006
The Constant Gardner - Left Anti Global Rot
Now, I like the odd thriller and can put up with silly politics in my Hollywood films, but this film deeply irritated me.
The cartoonish portrayal of multinational drug firms working in emerging markets (yes, yes, for full disclosure I did once work for one of the largest pharma's in the world on such things, but I'm not uncritical) was deeply annoying, cartoonish and absolutely lapping up the most simple-minded empty minded anti-corporate anti-globalisation rubbish from the anti-globos droolers.
Pity, I liked the concept of the Ralph Feines character and a somewhat less cartoonish structure to the film (e.g. Syriana) might have made for some real lessons as I know full well from personal experience that my dear former pharma world can be idiotic (lawyers, I blame the lawyers in general).
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Patriot Act
Bloody thing. Sabotaging my schemes. Some of the Fund peeps have "patriot act problems."
How the fuck to do a Fund in the MENA region without this fucking thing.
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January 12, 2006
On Reading
The fine little cancer thing has given my the odd occasion to stock up on English language books - something I have not had the time or inclination to do in a while.
I am variously reading at present several books on Economics and Growth (my favourite subject), and the pair of books by Michael Scheuer (Through Our Enemies Eyes and Imperial Hubris), both interesting but flawed books. But let me give them my highest praise, while flawed they are pragmatic and largely free of that disease I call "New Bolshevism," meaning not Bolshevism but worship at the alter of an ideology to the preclusion of pragmatism.
I also note I have read Fareed Zakaria's excellent and even brilliant The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. An excellent book on classic liberalism (not the namby pamby US left wishy washy 'liberalism') and really to the core of my own inclinations. I presume since my editor in chief sent it, some extended comment is due, in time. Much to be said with respect to the MENA region and the confusion in US and Euro policy of mere trappings of democracy (illiberal democracy or mob rule) and the building of a foundation of a truly liberal order.
As I have been sent more reading by various parties, I shall try to keep up. Even for le guin books read long ago, a reacquitance could be in order
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And in the category of just plain stupid hissy fits
Israel rethinks Christian heritage centre
By Harvey Morris in Jerusalem
Published: January 11 2006 17:32 | Last updated: January 11 2006
"Israel is reconsidering a project to help US Christians open a heritage centre in the Galilee region after Pat Robertson, the American evangelical broadcaster, suggested the stroke suffered by Ariel Sharon was a punishment from God for removing Jews from Gaza."
Of course US Xians should be read as American Evangelical Protestant Whacko Xians, not old school denominations, local Xians of the wrong ethnicity or anything of the like.
There is little to say there other than, simpering hypocritical prats. Not like these kind of views were not well-known before hand. At least your fine Palestinian Xians (Orthdox, Catholic and other wierdo sects) actively want your disappearance for rational reasons.
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Sullivan on Islamo Facist
Quote Andrew the confused Islamophobe:
"KILL ALL NON-MUSLIMS": London's most famous mullah unplugged. According to the prosecutor,
"In the course of one lecture [Abu Hamza] accused the Jews of being blasphemous, traitors and dirty. This, because of the treachery, because of their blasphemy and filth, was why Hitler was sent into the world."
And people question why some of us insist on calling these monsters Islamo-fascists. The answer: because we speak English."
No, in fact the answer is that you're intellectually impoverished slightly (but politely) islamophobic, not particalarly well-versed in Islam and get over excited, leading you to latch onto ugly and inaccurate agit-prop type phrases.
Speaking English has fuck all to do with this (other than it is in English speaking circles that the ugly, inaccurate and frankly utterly lacking in panache phrase has taken hold). And yes, the Imam in question is a reprehensible scum. Not a fascist, more your old school bigot.
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On Chemo, Fun Observations
Well, another round of this. And just when I was feeling better. The fine interview with the doctor who is charged with keeping me alive. Unfortunately some of me side effects this past week are not positive. Odd, suggestive of bone marrow issues. That's not good.
On the other hand, I was brilliant amusing the nurses with moderately maniacal humourous observations. If I am lucky I get the cute new dark trainee nurse with the curly hair again.
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January 11, 2006
Online Music
My experience so far has led me to total disgust. What should be simple is annoying, complicated, and requires absurd subs and downloads. I am renouncing this whole project. Bloody music industry and their short sighted idiocy.
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January 10, 2006
FT.com - bloody annoying
FT is a great paper, one of the world's best. So the question arises, why does their bloody site, for which I pay good money, suck so very much.
Above all their power search - I even pay extra for such features. It still is risibly bad.
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More from the Investors Iraq Cretins
Again, for the amusement value, their little "newsletter" - presumably created to drum up fading interest in their pimp-their-dinars scheme:
(of note I draw your attention to the delusional response (but very limited) to the news that US Funds are drying up for Iraq. I recall when I tried to teach them - somewhat, one must confess, brutally - a bit about the market one of the favourite responses was that the US was going to do a new Marshal Plan for Iraq, couldn't fail..... Some bloody plan, that.)
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January 08, 2006
Amman, very nice
Lots of Embassy closures, and Embassy (which still can't quite understand I am not in Amman at present) has usefully sent me a note asking me not to get blown up. Thoughtful.
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January 06, 2006
The Lounsbury on Endocet Game
The pain is rather nasty today, can't bloody sleep.
So I have invented for my own amusement, and due to limited coherence, The Lounsbury on Endocet Game.
It is a very simple game. I pose questions and don't answer them. They all revolve around collounsburyism.
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January 05, 2006
Treacherous motherfuckers
Found out from my peeps that my "supportive" firm is interviewing people for my position.
Fuckers. I literally loathe these scum.
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Rather pointless: on foriegn language, business and the like.
Rather pointlessly I thought some might enjoy my small hobby of berating Lefty idiots whinging on about foreign langauges and engaging in magical thinking on the same
(Of course you can also use this as my traditional customer/readers service blah blah note, but I have cancer so I am dropping the pretence of service and merely being abusive because it amuses me)
Ah yes, also apologies to those I have promised or hinted I might call. The narcotics seem to improve my paranioa.
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January 02, 2006
Further to useless notes.
I would like to confess I went with my wee cousin to see Narnia. I am afraid I found it rather tedious and ended up hoping that perhaps the White Witch might at least knock off one of those annoying little gittish kids.
Harry Potter films (which I have bizarrely seen exclusively on Emirates flights) are far more fun.
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In other thoughts, distractions [updated]
Now that I have just ordered up ADSL for my dear relatives fine residence so that I can indulge myself in work and the like, I thought I might turn some thoughts to various subsidiary issues. Such as wireless routers and other distractions. It should be healthier than contemplating the two fine dark Indian girls who just walked into the cafe. I believe I should be unable to seduce anyone (never mind the JV thing) when I am barely able to speak properly without groaning. Unless they have a strange thing for cancer patients (which I suppose can't be excluded but requires more effort than I probably capable of at present).
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Chemo, still nasty
The wierd pain, constant fatigue and naseau, they do not get more amusing. And Secret Dubai tells me this only gets better.
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January 01, 2006
Well, this chemo thing is nasty
Right after felt fine, but now several days later, bloody hell. I highly advise avoiding getting any cancers.
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