what i say when i have nothing to say

i haven't been feeling like blogging much lately. there's no good reason. i just haven't really had anything to say. i don't really have anything interesting to say today either. i gave up on the carol anshaw book i was reading because i was bored with it. sorry carol. i started a kazuo ishiguro book yesterday and i'm not sure i like it yet but i'm still reading it. soon i think i'll read the richard powers book i was going to read toward the end of october, but i wasn't in the mood for it yesterday. the night before last there was an astonishing windstorm. lots of western washingtonians have no power. lots of trees fell. lots of lines went down. we, in our home, have power. we seemed to have lost it for a moment during the night, because some of our clocks were blinking in the morning, but it was really no big deal. i guess we lucked out in a big way. i went to see my doctor yesterday, for followup of my ultrasound last week. i have a fatty liver. it could be a lot worse. i'm to watch my weight and exercise. i also got a tetanus shot, and today my arm doesn't hurt at all. i'll see my doctor again in 3 months. no meds yet. so that's good. it's saturday today. kara's taking a shower and when she's out we're going out, to look for shoes. i had a couple of good walks last week, about which i feel very good, but i don't have good shoes and one of my feet was really hurting. kara loves shopping for running shoes, so we're going to do that. i liked walking last week. i like walking outside better than walking on the treadmill, but i'll probably use the treadmill some, when the weather is bad. yesterday i also mailed off all the christmas presents i'm going to mail off. so that's done, and something of a relief. there's another thing or two i think i want to get for kara yet though, but i won't mention them here because occasionally she reads this blog. yesterday driving around was fun (sarcasm) because many traffic lights were out and too many people don't know what to do when the traffic lights are out. i was behind a good number of those people, it seemed. it's been 2 weeks since we lost rumble. one day last week when i was working i thought i heard her walking toward me and i turned, but it was eliot. not that there's anything wrong with eliot. i love eliot. yellow's been a lot more needy since rumble died. he's always gone through periods of neediness and periods of aloofness, but he's been pretty consistently needy these last 2 weeks. otherwise, other than all of that, things have been fine. work's been fine. no staggeringly interesting reports to report about, but nothing so terrible. this feels kind of lame, but at my annual review last may, my supervisor said she wanted me to "identify a medical topic" and research it and "document my findings." i'm having a heck of a time coming up with something to write about. i'm thinking a 2-page essay, something like that. i don't know. there are lots of interesting medical topics out there, and i'm probably making a bigger deal of this assignment than i need to, but i feel like i want to come up with something good and wow my supervisor. still, i could just write about the anatomy of the knee, for example, or about wolff-parkinson-white syndrome, or about ventriculoperitoneal shunts, or about the intracranial troubles of senator tim johnson and my friend christa, but even the most preliminary research somehow annuls my interest. so if anyone has any ideas about fascinating medical topics, show me the light, huh?