Trauma, Experimental, & Miscellaneous

[shadesong]

That's my autobiography title. "Trauma, Experimental, & Miscellaneous".

Why yes, there is a story behind that.

When I was about 14, I decided I'd like a binder to keep my poetry in, so I went and asked my dad for one. Rather than go out and buy one, he rifled through his work-type office supplies, and found a binder there that he wasn't using.

My dad sells surgical supplies. Artificial blood vessels, sutures, stuff like that. Doesn't actually sell them so much as he convinces people that they like him, then he showers them with gifts and attention so they don't look elsewhere. (Hmm. Maybe this is part of where I learned the charisma thing?) So his binders are all about different cardiovascular-type things.

The one he handed me, with his company logo and a picture of a circulatory system, was prominently titled "Trauma, Experimental, & Miscellaneous".

Perfect.

My poetry from age 8-20 resides in there to this day.

Comments

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

If he frequently has things like that to give away, I'd love to have some. I collect macabre stuff like that.

My autobiography title will be I'm Probably Smarter Than You.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I can score you some artificial blood vessels. cardio patches. Vascular bypass stuff. You want?

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

That would be all kinds of cool! It's the sort of thing I regularly buy from American Science & Surplus anyway.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Okay. Paging him right now. You'll get a bunch of samples of surgical supplies to play with. :)

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

That is so good. I'm jealous!