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He was tall, the doctor. He swept into the room quietly, barely glancing up. There was almost no affect on his face but it was not unkind. A crisp white coat blazed over starched shirt and pressed slacks. Royal-blue letters stitched on the breast of the coat marked him as a member of the American Association of Dermatology. His hair was dark brown and started further halfway back on a smooth scalp. Skin pale, features non-distinct. With a murmured hello he set an iPad on the counter and turned towards it, away from the exam table. Long fingers typed quickly as he asked standard first-visit questions in a soft, voice without looking up. His manner might have been better-suited to a surgeon. Done typing, he turned back towards the table and performed an efficient, almost silent exam. Diagnoses made, he left quickly. After a few minutes, he re-entered the room. No eye contact. He looked over his supplies and announced that the numbing would be the only painful part. Stepping up to the patient reclined on the table, his hand steady, he held a needle to the site. "Ouchie," he said.


**This post is inspired by Fun-A-Day, a project with the following goal:

Start the year off with a month of creativity!

Make some art every day of January. That’s pretty much the only rule, though most people pick one particular thing to do every day, like take a photo, or write their dreams down, or make a drawing or a painting or song or a meal in a certain way – really anything. The only constraint is doing it every day, it can take as little or much time as you want. Then in February, everyone shows all the stuff they made in January, and we compare notes and have a cocktail. It’s a really fun challenge. And if you are shy about your artistic abilities, DON'T BE. This is just about having fun and doing a thing.