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I’m looking for a new doctor, if anyone has Toronto-area recommendations to share. I’m leaving my current one partly because there is no schedule management at all, partly because there is minimal “patient management” — if you know the doctor is 3 hours behind, say so when I arrive 5 minutes before my appointment — and, well, it was the record management that really broke the deal for me. In spite of telling both her and her assistant twice during the visit, they didn’t seem to believe that I’d been a patient before. And they didn’t have any records from my last visit, so I guess they might as well have been right. I got to go back over my whole history again, spar a little about whether or not I should be on Celexa “that long”, blah. I could go to a walk-in for that, and probably wait less.

And then it rained on me on the way back to the office.

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Got to have a nice dinner with Tyla and Kev at Tiger Lily, and then come back to work and actually get some good results out of llite/11.

I bought the Get Your War On book at Indigo today, along with some other stuff. It was right next to the books of anti-war poetry, so I didn’t linger long. (I’m not really pro-war, and I think that the US has screwed the process fifty ways to Sunday, but I do think that use of military force to remove Hussein is likely required, and very likely appropriate. Maybe I’ll say more tomorrow, but I spend all day talking about it, and, well, others — see below — say most of the things I’m thinking in much more interesting ways.)

Two new additions to the links section today, and they’re the first two people linked up there that I haven’t met and wouldn’t consider to be friends. But they write very well, and while I don’t agree with all of their politics, I very much enjoy the way they present their positions, and enjoy even more the way their writings sometimes make me poke around a bit at the reasoning behind my own positions. (Strictly speaking, the Volokh Conspiracy link points to the writings of more than one person, but we’ll just let that slide. Won’t we?)

I haven’t been very happy with my writing here lately: a lot of things are being left unmentioned because I’m too tired when I get around to updating, and, to add insult to what cannot really be described as injury, the quality of the text I do produce isn’t that great. I think I need to devote a bit more time to it.