The Kabuki Play 3

Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that portrays the lives of people who lived during the Edo period (1600-1868). While it's subject matter is primarily historical, Kabuki's extraordinary spectacles of color and sound through acting, dancing and music still symbolize contemporary life.

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HISTORY OF "THE KABUKI PLAY"

  • The original "Kabuki Play" writings exposed a brash inner monologue as I struggled through the trials and tribulations as a college student. Broken friendships, irritating dorm-mates and akward trips home between semesters kicked off the first "Kabuki Play" series. However, college didn't last forever and "the real world" was right around the corner with drama ten fold.
  • "The Kabuki Play 2," a darker and more disturbing account, told the unsettling story about my first job after graduating from college, it being one of the biggest trainwrecks in the history of "The Kabuki Play." After being caught in the middle of 10 consecutive firings in less than two years and being stuck with four pisspoor bosses, I decided that I'd had enough. So, I quit my job and cut off all the negativity in my life, and moved two hours away from home to start my life over.
  • With a new job, my own apartment and a new beginning, "The Kabuki Play 3" picks up where the second series left off and revisits my inner monologue as I try to leave the past behind me and spread my wings.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Chapter 1.5: Infection

Of course, the second 5 o’clock hit on Wednesday of last week, my weekend was doomed. It started out as a scratchy throat when I got home, and then it turned into a pretty bad sore throat and a cold into Thursday morning. I couldn’t get out of bed, so I said “fuuuuck this” and called in sick from work.

It got a little worse throughout the day, but I felt well enough Thursday night to go to work on Friday even though I probably shouldn’t have. I went to a coworker’s gig that night and felt okay, but by Saturday I had gone down hill a bit. My right ear felt like it was clogged and I lost about 70% of my hearing in a span of 10 minutes. I thought it was due to congestion, but it didn’t get better.

On Sunday morning, my right ear had cleared up a little bit, but then my left ear went deaf and really began to hurt around mid morning and worsened by lunchtime. I knew it wasn’t congestion at that point and decided to go to a medical clinic to get it looked at.

I had to sit for 2 hours before a doctor was available. The pain in my left ear grew so bad that I began to tremble from the discomfort. It sucks having something hurt when there is nothing you can do about it!

So, when I went into see the doctor, he took one look into my ear and kind of gasped at the sight of my “fire-engine red” ear canals. Then he diagnosed me with an ear infection due to upper respiratory infection. GREAT!

Right now, I have a tickling cough that’s developed over the past couple of days that seems to get worse when I speak or right before I go to bed. I can’t sleep because it keeps me up for hours and I can’t really communicate with people for too long because I cough and cough, but can’t stop. This blows goats.

My voice sounds horrible, when it works properly and I’m fall in and out of fatigue. God knows, if I take more days off from work, nobody will be taking care of stuff. It’s bad enough I have to be the staff photographer for the week!

All I know is, I better be well by this weekend because I’m going to shake my ass up in the club!

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