If he's telling me the truth, as we reach the end of the first cycle of Capecitabine, the side effects seem to be minor: just a bit of fatigue that requires a nap.

But after two weeks of meds, the mandatory one week without meds foreshadows … something. Maybe we'll be lucky. After all, that nurse did say that, while it's rare, some people are on Capecitabine for a year.

#cancer #chemotherapy #medicine #drug #SideEffect

It's time I can return to work coming Monday.
I'm #hacking too much which gives the #SideEffect of #smoking too much.
+sigh+

#SelfControl is NOT my strong side.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Side Effect:
🎵 The Loneliest Man in Town

#SideEffect

https://gibberish512.bandcamp.com/track/67-side-effect-the-loneliest-man-in-town

https://open.spotify.com/track/2cd44XY8d2bmXS2cLNagC3

Why #Israeli #Soldiers #Rape, #Torture, and #Massacre.

Instilling #fear in the #citizens of #Gaza is not a #sideeffect of the #IDF's #brutal #violations of #humanrights. It is their #strategy. "these #practices are intended to #punish #Palestinians for #resisting #occupation and seek to #destroy them #individually and #collectively."

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MiddleEast #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/idf-rape-torture

A change of season.
Not change to summer from spring,
Change that makes it burn.

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #ClimateChange

Author Notes (nerdy trivia for programmers):

As someone once observed, there are two ways you can change your socks: you can put on a new pair, or you can monogram them. I learned this because Bernie Greenberg said it in a tutorial on the lisp programming language, several decades ago, when I was at MIT, though I don't know if it was original to him. But I've always liked that set of mnemonics for the two kinds of change, and they were part of the inspiration for this haiku.

The first kind of change (referenced in the middle line of the poem, line 1 if you 0-index the lines) is variable assignment, without side effect:

1> (setq *season* *summer*)

The second kind of change (referenced in the final line of the poem, line 2 if 0-indexed) is mutation by side-effect to an object:

2> (incf (average-temperature *summer*) enough-to-make-it-burn)

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For others not familiar with lisp, you'd probably expect something more akin to this pseudocode for the corresponding examples above:

1> season := summer

2> season.average_temperature += enough_to_make_it_burn

#lisp #CommonLisp #programming #change #SideEffect