Day 39

We have entered yet another 3 day lag in bowel movements.
This just doesn't stop.

My father takes bran every morning
warm prune juice twice a day
5 10-ounce glasses of liquid
milk of magnesia every other day
Miralax every other day
a stool softener in the morning and at night
and 2 laxatives every morning
and he STILL can't go.

I don't want to keep writing about the same things but my god
can't it just happen?

I go twice a day and have for as long as I can remember (which isn't so far back because you don't think about that too much when you are young)

I've begun to write my one-act play. It's set in the 80's in a living room. 4 boys (about 14 or 15) play D&D. There is a whole lot of bravado, competition and one of the characters (although pretending to be in love with a girl) comes out to his friend's bro, late at night.
I don't hate it... but I don't know... Ill post it when Im done.

I am also writing a paper about how the first American explorers differed from the Indians in the ways they viewed and "wrote" (or orated in the case of the Indians) about the actual earth of the North American continent.
Something interesting I've discovered. The North American tribes were pretty separated in many ways... languages were very different, customs, oration... myths... but there is one idea that struck me as kinda cool that seems to be shared by tribes from Massachussettes to Texas (a long way for those of you who are not familiar)
It seems when people of several tribes come to the end of life their "souls" go southwest. So Southwest was the direction of death... and it is not viewed negatively... for some reason the south west was lucky and the southwest was were they'd come from... they say... I think it's cool.

i wish I had more to say about what is going on with my father.
There will be one final visit by a nurse next Wednesday.
Then we are on our own. (with Tay of course!)

I am thinking about taking a break in late february... early march.
I have a 400 dollar coupon for continental.
Ive looked into flying to Aruba (only $380)
but now Im considering going somewhere (definitely south cause I hate the winter) and joining a writers workshop.
Strike while the anvil is hot... sort of thing
or at least luke warm.

What do you think of these ideas?
Do you have any others... It can't be expensive. I don't want to pay much more than the coupon...
But let me know if you think of anything