tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970502759702586204.post7189188121738856208..comments2024-03-25T03:59:31.089+00:00Comments on Behind The Barred Window: More on Admission Procedures - Some Random Thoughts on the SubjectToyntanenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01964511433148028640noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970502759702586204.post-14435509327215071902015-04-17T15:47:25.999+01:002015-04-17T15:47:25.999+01:00Hi Vlad! Wow! I did go on a bit in this post! I...Hi Vlad! Wow! I did go on a bit in this post! I just spun through it on my phone (I'm out in a coffee bar) and was shocked how much I'd rambled on. But I find the psycholgy of addmission procedures a facinating subject, have done since back in the day when I'd occasionaly hang out in the Janus shop in Old Compton Street browsing and devouring back issues, especialy the Readers' Letters sections. The number of issues I bought based on a single reader's letter is nobody's buisness, a lot anyway. Usualy it would be a long letter, and I would hold back on reading more than a paragraph, if that, basing my decision to buy on a promising opening sentence or two. Then came the excitment of getting it home, which might take an hour or two - and sometimes it might be the next day before the oppertunity to read under the right circumstances arose. OK, often there would be disapointment, but not always. And even if it didn't match my expectations there still would have been that lead-up excitment to savour, during which my imagination would often have filled in the gaps anyway, some of the legacy of which you'll have seen in print when reading my stuff.<br /><br />Yeah I've got a bit of enthusiasm going again. It's sunny, which helps, and I'm short of money, which keeps me out the pubs (AND I'm worried I might have developed a touch of alcoholic neuropathy!!!) so I am a little more focussed than I have been. I'm still a bit tied up with artwork for Roger Benson but I've also got a lot of ideas, often inspired by caption writing for stuff I've found on Tumblr but also by some piecee sent me, notably by 'Chris' . Trouble is; I probably have TOO many ideas right now and am working on several things at once, no single one getting anywhere like close to finishing. And it all takes longer than it did. I like to think I'm getting better at what I do, but that in turn demands more care. For example, I am HUGELY dissatisfied with the INSTITUTIONALISED series nowadays and given the chance would rewrite it.... Perhaps I will one day. After all I do still have that half finished comic book project sitting around.<br /><br />Funny about the bib thing. I don't remember what I wrote there... It just goes to show! But thinking about it, I seem to think it was more like a child's feeding bib than the type of restraint tabard that rings my bell nowadays... Take a look at some of those seated patient photos produced by 'WRINGER'.Toyntanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01964511433148028640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6970502759702586204.post-36198710403786367562015-04-17T07:54:56.412+01:002015-04-17T07:54:56.412+01:00Thanks for the hat tip. It looks like you have the...Thanks for the hat tip. It looks like you have the makings of a book or two right here, as a variation on the Institutionalized series, or perhaps a series of related shorts packaged as a treatise on admission procedures, or patient management. By the way, a version of the plastic tabard does appear in Institutionalized book 3 when Lavinia is in the ward.<br />I hope the surge in posts is a sign of restored Internet and renewed writing.Vladnoreply@blogger.com