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Jun. 3rd, 2011 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Thanks to insomnia, I only got twoish hours sleep. Given the condition of my hip, I suppose I should not have been surprised I dreamed I was House. The brain MRI was way too early in the morning for Hector, and he clung, likely thinking I was going to work, poor thing. They use even more immobilizing equipment for a brain MRI. The music, though not any of my bands, was in the right style, and if I hadn't been so tired, I'm sure I'd have been able to identify the bands, as they sounded familiar. It wasn't too bad really. Normally, I'd just go home and crash, but most of my errands were that end of town, so it's more efficient and fuel wise to do them after the MRI. Then to the bank, the storage unit, Office Depot (I was out of BPAL mailing envelopes), grocery store, a second grocery store (I need a replacement fish bucket and the first store didn't have volume labels, I bought one twice the size I wanted rather than keep searching), Post office (to use one of the mailers), a third grocery store (discount cheese!), a forth grocery store (cardamom is peculiarly hard to find in this town, and they have a library drop), and the Pharmacy (the multivitamins I've determined are the best bargain to cover all but one of the things my medications leach). When I got home there were dishes to do, perishables to unload, cats to coddle, a cat mess to clean, food to make. All of this accomplished on a day my right leg could barely take weight and kept going limp on me if I tried to do anything adventurous like stoop. I could have slept, but the insomnia made it impossible, so I read instead. I probably should have swam, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Tomorrow before I pay rent, I suppose. Sigh.
It was at this point I realized I only took two books back when I needed to take three. I can't face going back out at this point, so I shall have to beg squirrel to take them when he goes.
UPDATE: He said yes. I love the "time travelling" Haagan's bookdrop. If you put a book in today, tomorrow it will be as if you put it in yesterday, as apposed to today.
* I really wish there was some way to make a birmin understand that he's hungry because he refused to eat and the easiest remedy was to solve that is to just eat, silly beast.
* I found the missing BPALs, which it turns out I'd misfiled, likely due to exhaustion fueled haste.
* I am suffering from what I suspect is egg yolk exposure. Not enough to make me really sick, but enough to spoil my evening and add extra spin to the almost no sleep cranky. I am waaaay behind on lj. I'll try to catch up but no promises.
* Watching Scanner Darkly yet again, I thought about my own memorial wall. The first name on mine was from 1986: Marsha: severe brain damage, deceased. After the second Od, we didn't hang out much anymore. It was too painful watching her body walking around without her inside it. I think the third OD was a sort of mercy, really. Her life had been terrible on a scale most people can't imagine, and there was so little left of her by then that her whole life had narrowed to a point.
We all have our memorial walls, I suspect. Mine is not long as Philip K. Dick's, but it's long enough to grasp the bitter sweet beauty of that book, that film.
* The White Cat by Holly Black, is stylistically so like Dianna Wynne Jones, that it feels like a much darker, grimmer, American cousin to certain of her books. Trust me, this is a compliment. Just a warning that it's not much like her other stuff except for it also being dark toned urban fantasy. I know some people get startled by that sort of thing. I solved the mystery bits way early, but the crux of the thing is Rube Goldberg plotting based on the solutions, so it likely doesn't matter. Be warned, the ending of this gave me the shivers.
* The last man I almost married is married with two children. This sort of thing is always a relief. Not dead, likely happy. Judging from his photo, he apparently has a Dorian Gray style picture in his attic. This is my sigh of relief. (He was way too straight for me, and it's not like I could have given him children or the traditional family he desperately wanted underneath all his daring in taking me on "to see what a gay relationship is like." It is always makes me happy to see dudes I dated are healthy and happy).
* It turns out the Governor of Indiana's attempt to cut all funding of cancer screening and the like at Planned Parenthood is actually illegal, because the Law establishing medicaid allows women to get their cancer screening wherever they like.
I still want to know why Republicans hate cancer screening for women so much.
I refuse to call them "pro-life" as long as they are in favor of women dieing of cancer, terrorism (bombs), and political assassination. If they were pacifist vegetarians in favor of health care for everyone, then they would be "pro-life." As long as they are in favor of withholding life saving health care from women as a group on the grounds that they have ovaries and killing adult humans, I consider them pro-death.
* Presidential Primary candidate Tim Pawlenty is now demanding prison terms for women who have abortions. "Small government" being Orwell speak for "Let's have government monitor every signal pregnancy and make medical decisions for women!"
* In Wisconsin they voted today to raise taxes on the poor by 56 million dollars to pay for corporate welfare for a Snoose tobacco company. Seriously, the competition for the Governor most like a Batman villain is really tight this year, but Governor Scott Walker wins in my book. In my head, I imagine him dressing and talking like the Penguin for my own amusement. It's laugh or cry really.
* It does not help my news item typing accuracy that there is also an Asshole Governor Scott in Florida, also on my Batman villain governors list.
* Meanwhile, Governor Christie is proposing to pay for his giveaways to corporations and the rich, by cutting medicaid to anyone above one third the poverty level. That mean be if the family income exceeds $5317.00 a year, he assumes they can afford to pay for akll their own health care. Imagine how much extra money for hospital bills you'd have if you were making a whopping $6000.00 a year! I mean, pretty much all of that goes to rent in a state like new Jersey, but in Republican opinion, obviously anyone who, say, catches bronchitis clearly deserves to become homeless. Of course, services for the homeless cost more than the medicaid that allows people to keep working, but what's wasting huge amounts of money next to the mioral principle of forcing the working poor to become homeless! Better yet, he plans to kick any single adults making more than $3000.00 a year off Medicaid. After all, he has to pay for those tax cuts for the rich somehow.
Yes, he's on my batman villain shortlist too.
* Speaking of Chris Christie, I think this editorial has some lovely zingers: http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/06/christie_should_pay_for_choppe.html
"Now we know why he can’t imagine what it’s like to walk a mile in the shoes of regular New Jerseyans: He doesn’t even walk 100 yards in his own."
* It's like the Republicans got together this year and decided to see how cartoonishly evil they can get away with being. go big or go home I suppose.
* Yes, I heard Sarah Palin's lies about the statue of Liberty. Yes, I yelled at the TV.
For those who are unclear, the french did not give us the Statue of Liberty to warn us against being like Europe. No, the French gave us the statue of Liberty because they are our oldest, closet, and most faithful ally, because we had fought side beside so often against the English, because of the relationship between their revolution and ours as a gesture of friendship to symbolize the way our Revolution inspired so many others to aspire to freedom to monarchy.
If she has access to twitter, doesn't that imply access to the Internet? I mean, if she's not willing to read any eighth grade history books, she could google this stuff.
* I still don't have the heart to talk about Syria. Suffice to say, I am hard pressed to imagine anything horrible that those in charge over there don't deserve to happen to them.
* Meanwhile, Yemen appears to be crumbling, but rather than pro-democracy protesters gaining control of areas that the government no longer runs, there is reason to think extremist groups are moving into the power vacuum, as they are much better organized than the protesters.
* Greenwick has been looking into North Korea: http://greenwick.livejournal.com/17976.html?mode=reply&style=mine
* I have decided that from here on when an someone writes or films a sequel so bad it retroactively calls into question the artistic value of all previous work no matter how good it seemed at the time, ala the third Dexter book, I will call that "pulling a Lucas." Yes, I'm still bitter about Episodes 1-3, and I love how Darths vs Droids reimagines those horrible movies as a role playing campaign, because really, that's the only way to make large swathes of those bits of artistic road kill make sense.
* Brown Recluse spider man: http://beatonna.livejournal.com/147554.html
* And another comic: http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/timeandtide.jpg
* I really like Mr. O'Donnell's take on the Wiener Twitter thing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43261193#43261193
It was at this point I realized I only took two books back when I needed to take three. I can't face going back out at this point, so I shall have to beg squirrel to take them when he goes.
UPDATE: He said yes. I love the "time travelling" Haagan's bookdrop. If you put a book in today, tomorrow it will be as if you put it in yesterday, as apposed to today.
* I really wish there was some way to make a birmin understand that he's hungry because he refused to eat and the easiest remedy was to solve that is to just eat, silly beast.
* I found the missing BPALs, which it turns out I'd misfiled, likely due to exhaustion fueled haste.
* I am suffering from what I suspect is egg yolk exposure. Not enough to make me really sick, but enough to spoil my evening and add extra spin to the almost no sleep cranky. I am waaaay behind on lj. I'll try to catch up but no promises.
* Watching Scanner Darkly yet again, I thought about my own memorial wall. The first name on mine was from 1986: Marsha: severe brain damage, deceased. After the second Od, we didn't hang out much anymore. It was too painful watching her body walking around without her inside it. I think the third OD was a sort of mercy, really. Her life had been terrible on a scale most people can't imagine, and there was so little left of her by then that her whole life had narrowed to a point.
We all have our memorial walls, I suspect. Mine is not long as Philip K. Dick's, but it's long enough to grasp the bitter sweet beauty of that book, that film.
* The White Cat by Holly Black, is stylistically so like Dianna Wynne Jones, that it feels like a much darker, grimmer, American cousin to certain of her books. Trust me, this is a compliment. Just a warning that it's not much like her other stuff except for it also being dark toned urban fantasy. I know some people get startled by that sort of thing. I solved the mystery bits way early, but the crux of the thing is Rube Goldberg plotting based on the solutions, so it likely doesn't matter. Be warned, the ending of this gave me the shivers.
* The last man I almost married is married with two children. This sort of thing is always a relief. Not dead, likely happy. Judging from his photo, he apparently has a Dorian Gray style picture in his attic. This is my sigh of relief. (He was way too straight for me, and it's not like I could have given him children or the traditional family he desperately wanted underneath all his daring in taking me on "to see what a gay relationship is like." It is always makes me happy to see dudes I dated are healthy and happy).
* It turns out the Governor of Indiana's attempt to cut all funding of cancer screening and the like at Planned Parenthood is actually illegal, because the Law establishing medicaid allows women to get their cancer screening wherever they like.
I still want to know why Republicans hate cancer screening for women so much.
I refuse to call them "pro-life" as long as they are in favor of women dieing of cancer, terrorism (bombs), and political assassination. If they were pacifist vegetarians in favor of health care for everyone, then they would be "pro-life." As long as they are in favor of withholding life saving health care from women as a group on the grounds that they have ovaries and killing adult humans, I consider them pro-death.
* Presidential Primary candidate Tim Pawlenty is now demanding prison terms for women who have abortions. "Small government" being Orwell speak for "Let's have government monitor every signal pregnancy and make medical decisions for women!"
* In Wisconsin they voted today to raise taxes on the poor by 56 million dollars to pay for corporate welfare for a Snoose tobacco company. Seriously, the competition for the Governor most like a Batman villain is really tight this year, but Governor Scott Walker wins in my book. In my head, I imagine him dressing and talking like the Penguin for my own amusement. It's laugh or cry really.
* It does not help my news item typing accuracy that there is also an Asshole Governor Scott in Florida, also on my Batman villain governors list.
* Meanwhile, Governor Christie is proposing to pay for his giveaways to corporations and the rich, by cutting medicaid to anyone above one third the poverty level. That mean be if the family income exceeds $5317.00 a year, he assumes they can afford to pay for akll their own health care. Imagine how much extra money for hospital bills you'd have if you were making a whopping $6000.00 a year! I mean, pretty much all of that goes to rent in a state like new Jersey, but in Republican opinion, obviously anyone who, say, catches bronchitis clearly deserves to become homeless. Of course, services for the homeless cost more than the medicaid that allows people to keep working, but what's wasting huge amounts of money next to the mioral principle of forcing the working poor to become homeless! Better yet, he plans to kick any single adults making more than $3000.00 a year off Medicaid. After all, he has to pay for those tax cuts for the rich somehow.
Yes, he's on my batman villain shortlist too.
* Speaking of Chris Christie, I think this editorial has some lovely zingers: http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/06/christie_should_pay_for_choppe.html
"Now we know why he can’t imagine what it’s like to walk a mile in the shoes of regular New Jerseyans: He doesn’t even walk 100 yards in his own."
* It's like the Republicans got together this year and decided to see how cartoonishly evil they can get away with being. go big or go home I suppose.
* Yes, I heard Sarah Palin's lies about the statue of Liberty. Yes, I yelled at the TV.
For those who are unclear, the french did not give us the Statue of Liberty to warn us against being like Europe. No, the French gave us the statue of Liberty because they are our oldest, closet, and most faithful ally, because we had fought side beside so often against the English, because of the relationship between their revolution and ours as a gesture of friendship to symbolize the way our Revolution inspired so many others to aspire to freedom to monarchy.
If she has access to twitter, doesn't that imply access to the Internet? I mean, if she's not willing to read any eighth grade history books, she could google this stuff.
* I still don't have the heart to talk about Syria. Suffice to say, I am hard pressed to imagine anything horrible that those in charge over there don't deserve to happen to them.
* Meanwhile, Yemen appears to be crumbling, but rather than pro-democracy protesters gaining control of areas that the government no longer runs, there is reason to think extremist groups are moving into the power vacuum, as they are much better organized than the protesters.
* Greenwick has been looking into North Korea: http://greenwick.livejournal.com/17976.html?mode=reply&style=mine
* I have decided that from here on when an someone writes or films a sequel so bad it retroactively calls into question the artistic value of all previous work no matter how good it seemed at the time, ala the third Dexter book, I will call that "pulling a Lucas." Yes, I'm still bitter about Episodes 1-3, and I love how Darths vs Droids reimagines those horrible movies as a role playing campaign, because really, that's the only way to make large swathes of those bits of artistic road kill make sense.
* Brown Recluse spider man: http://beatonna.livejournal.com/147554.html
* And another comic: http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/timeandtide.jpg
* I really like Mr. O'Donnell's take on the Wiener Twitter thing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43261193#43261193
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Date: 2011-06-03 09:05 am (UTC)Her presence in NYC offends me. All that 'real America' bullshit that she and others spout, but she comes to NYC to play tourist.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:19 am (UTC)