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To: Gauguin who wrote (19856)	3/19/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Good luck with your surgery Gaugs--based on what I know of you, you're one resilient sumbitch, and I expect you to come through this time just as you have in the past. A few years ago I had some minor surgery and went under anesthesia for the first time. Well, when I get nervous, I tend to either go stone cold silent, or become unusually chatty. This time I decided to be chatty as I was wheeled into the OR and about to be put under. All I can remember saying was " I hope you guys aren't going to paint smiley faces on Little Elvis like those surgeons I heard about on tv last week . . ." The last thing I remember as I began my anesthesia countdown was the OR erupting in laughter. Evidently my memory was weak. After surgery, the surgeon told me I was halfway through an entire monologue when they put me out and then started quoting me, adding that his hand was shaking from the giggles--boy was I proud (like an idiot). I was thinking about this as I was driving home from the studio today--as I was making a joke to myself about how . . .um . . .challenging this year has been. As a culture, the Jews (which I ain't, but I hang out with a few) are good about that--finding humor amidst difficulty. Hell, if I wan't laughing, I'd be crying, and I'd rather laugh. But it's not just me (yeah I poured myself a three finger glass of smooth, mellow, hand crafted Mount Gay Rum--its' the oldest rum in the world ya know--a 300 year legacy of superior taste . . ., and I'm venting . . .)seems all my friends in my karma club are struggling lately (or is because they're associating with me--what have I got, karma kooties?!) STuff just isn't happin like it usually does--sure bets are falling though. I gotta be at the end of some entropal(?) cycle (PLEASE!) My batting average is too high for me to be striking out this much. And when you're self-employed in the arts, striking out several times in a row is not a good thing. Damn, I should have been an accountant!