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Monday, June 18, 2007
Sleeping beauty
So you go to an excellent show, as we did Saturday at Emo’s — shredding all-female AC/DC tribute band Hell’s Belles — and have a good, rowdy-ish time.
Colleague slash writing whiz Pat Beach shows up with a friend, and the four of us rawk, a vibe sparkplugged by opener Broken Teeth’s molar-cracking Judas Priest cover of (yesss) “Devil’s Child.” I steal the show’s cool poster off the wall and give it to Pat.
And then reality sets in (the next day, after sleeping from 5 a.m. till 2 p.m.). Mine being Becky the Wonder Rat, who, a few weeks after major, heartbreaking chest surgery is on the mend and acting feisty and omnivorous and digging up the house plants.
But when people ask about her, here’s what I say (straight from a recent email): “Becky is OK, not great. She behaves mostly normally, but she seems excessively tired, almost exhausted. The tumor that was removed — twice — has returned and is ballooning and will soon start making her uncomfortable, if it doesn’t kill her outright. I’m babying her as much as I can and trying to let go bit by bit. It hurts like hell.”
Becky is so sleepy now, she crashes out, arms spread like a high-diver, in my lap or on my feet when my legs are curled up on the sofa. She can stay there as long as she wants.
