Innards update 2, and a request for help
Sep. 6th, 2006 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynSaw the surgeon today. I was relieved over the weekend when I looked him up on the clinic's list and saw his photograph -- geeky facial hair, dorky high-school boy haircut, glasses, goofy toothy grin. He looked like a more polished, much thinner version of the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy. I found this oddly comforting -- the surgeon was a geek like me, and that made it seem slightly more tolerable. He didn't look like that anymore, though -- facial hair is gone, better haircut, and no glasses. He was personable, though, didn't seem like the typical super-smoothie God complex type.
But I am now scheduled for the 27th to have my innards played around with and yanked. I am freaking out, which we discussed at lenghth ("Any complications you've had with this? Any fatalities?" I asked him), and he said that since there's a camera in there already, they are going to look around and see if there's anything related to the cancer my sister had. Boy, you can get a lot of extra mileage out of medical people when you pull out the dead twin trump card!
I know that I am a big weenie and a coward for being so afraid of a simple laparoscopic surgery. But the tube down the throat, the weird reactions to anesthesia I have... it makes me definitely lean to the wuss side of things. I also read a detailed article about people who are awake during surgery and feel and hear everything, and that has haunted me for years. What if I am one of those people? Brrr. Total nightmare.
Oh well, at least I get a couple days off work. Though I have no idea if they are vacation or sick leave. Also, I have three weeks in which to figure out a way to get my hands on S2 of Slings and Arrows to watch while I recover. Just... where the hell do I get them? Someone must have them out there!
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On an entirely different but still disappointing note, we were unable to get my music off my iPod to my iTunes last night using the program iPod Rip. I guess I will not be buying the program after my five more uses are up. It seemed to work, and I was very happy, until we started trying to play them, and they all have an exclamation point next to them, though what it signifies I can't seem to find out, and none of the songs are locatable. They just don't seem to exist anywhere on my drives. I've always had a lot of trouble locating things in OS X, such as prefs, but hours later I still couldn't find anything on a search -- we were only able to locate the songs from my friend's iPod that we used as a test import, and they were hidden away, but we were able to drag them into iTunes.
I have finally completed capturing for my Buffy & Angel all-cast vid, and I can't get the song back from my iPod. Would anyone by any small chance out there have a copy of Space's original version of Female of the Species they could send me in MP3 or 4? (Or aif or wav might be even better). This isn't the version that was redone for one of the Austin Powers movies; it has a kind of old scratchy record quality to the beginning intro and it sounds much less loungey than the AP remake. I realize it's pretty unlikely, but I thought I'd try.
Feeling very low down about retrieving my music, but I hope that vidding will be better -- if I can get the darn song again!
But I am now scheduled for the 27th to have my innards played around with and yanked. I am freaking out, which we discussed at lenghth ("Any complications you've had with this? Any fatalities?" I asked him), and he said that since there's a camera in there already, they are going to look around and see if there's anything related to the cancer my sister had. Boy, you can get a lot of extra mileage out of medical people when you pull out the dead twin trump card!
I know that I am a big weenie and a coward for being so afraid of a simple laparoscopic surgery. But the tube down the throat, the weird reactions to anesthesia I have... it makes me definitely lean to the wuss side of things. I also read a detailed article about people who are awake during surgery and feel and hear everything, and that has haunted me for years. What if I am one of those people? Brrr. Total nightmare.
Oh well, at least I get a couple days off work. Though I have no idea if they are vacation or sick leave. Also, I have three weeks in which to figure out a way to get my hands on S2 of Slings and Arrows to watch while I recover. Just... where the hell do I get them? Someone must have them out there!
***
On an entirely different but still disappointing note, we were unable to get my music off my iPod to my iTunes last night using the program iPod Rip. I guess I will not be buying the program after my five more uses are up. It seemed to work, and I was very happy, until we started trying to play them, and they all have an exclamation point next to them, though what it signifies I can't seem to find out, and none of the songs are locatable. They just don't seem to exist anywhere on my drives. I've always had a lot of trouble locating things in OS X, such as prefs, but hours later I still couldn't find anything on a search -- we were only able to locate the songs from my friend's iPod that we used as a test import, and they were hidden away, but we were able to drag them into iTunes.
I have finally completed capturing for my Buffy & Angel all-cast vid, and I can't get the song back from my iPod. Would anyone by any small chance out there have a copy of Space's original version of Female of the Species they could send me in MP3 or 4? (Or aif or wav might be even better). This isn't the version that was redone for one of the Austin Powers movies; it has a kind of old scratchy record quality to the beginning intro and it sounds much less loungey than the AP remake. I realize it's pretty unlikely, but I thought I'd try.
Feeling very low down about retrieving my music, but I hope that vidding will be better -- if I can get the darn song again!
