I spent eleven hours at work today (and last Thursday) literally being poked dozens of times with a sharp object.  By medical students.  They’re always really nice about it.  Sometimes, though, it feels like my own personal cross between Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (movie) and any typical Philip K. Dick scenario.

Tomorrow I’m off to Minneapolis (or was it St. Paul?), Minnesota, for Recently Deceased Uncle #2.  And to meet this Moor, Rashid al-Din.