Anna's Slant

July 2, 2008

Hospital Hacks: Food and Nutrition

The key to ordering hospital food is realizing they are not offering actual food, but flavored cardboard, or salted and colored water. All food choices must be done either 24 hours in advance, or will be made by proxy while you are sound asleep so as to keep you guessing as to what you are supposed to be fed.

Monday night's dinner was cardboard flavored chicken with gravy and shreded paper dressing. Lunch on Tuesday was vegetable flavored water with red coloring. Tuesday night I was afraid to even look but was told it was pork flavored cardboard with breading. This morning; french toast flavored cardboard without the dignity of strawberries and whipped cream.

Occasionally there will be fruit on the tray. This is actual food and is safe to eat, because there is no way to mess up grapes, strawberries, bananas and the like. Do not confuse this fruit, however, with the emaciated fruit coctail added in with the red jello, because the ways to mess that up are enumerable.

I am plotting my escape, the only problem is my getaway driver won't cooperate.

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July 1, 2008

Hospital Hacks...

The shortest path between two points is always a straight line. The shortest path to your nurse is to remove the little finger monitor and wait.

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When Life Gives You Lemons: Inpatient Hospital Edition

I'll stay out of the "dying with dignity" debate for now, but I am going to pee with dignity. Which means using the real toilet behind the hardwood door, as opposed to the makeshift toilet located in front of the open window six stories above street level. Thankyouverymuch.

The good thing is that when you are in the hospital, for some reason being crotchety is always taken a sign of improvement, Apparently I have "improved" considerably in the past few hours.

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June 11, 2008

Observations from the drive thru....

1. If the drive thru attendant is female you will find a handful of napkins in your bag, the number of napkins will increase in direct proportion to her age. If the drive thru attendant is male, you will be lucky to get a napkin in your bag.

2. Bacon cheeseburger minus tomato equals blah.

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June 7, 2008

Having my brain picked....

I recently received the following email about my previous review of Gary Null's book "Who Are You, Really?"

I am a psychology graduate who has read Gary Null's Natural Life Energy book, noticed your review, and I have the following thoughts:

1. There may be some rare cases of people like tadpoles who turn into butterflies or people evolving from one life energy into another. Even if most people remain in one life energy, it is theroretically possible that some people may change.

2. You mentioned that you scored high on both Dynamic Supportive and Dynamic Assertive. I have noticed the following:

Some people are pure textbook cases of a particular life energy. For instance, there is an dancer friend I have who is a pure creative assertive and two activists I know who are pure Dynamic assertives. Donald Trump has to be a pure Dynamic Agressive. However, there are some people who seem to be hybrids of more than one life energy:
Bill Gates seems to be a Dynamic Aggressive tycoon who also has a genuine Dynamic Assertive Scientist vissionary side to him. Some people who know him, can find him to be like a sincere caring scientist at times. I also know a Dynamic Aggressive tycoon who can be with friends like a caring Dynamic Supportive counselor. The most interesting hybrid I know is a woman who is a status hungry adaptive aggressive who also works as a sensitive therapist with yuppies. She is a genuine Dynamic Supportive/Adaptive Aggressive hybrid. She has enough genuine Dynamic Supportiveness to be a great caring therapist, but is status hungry enough to be better able to relate to Adaptive Agressives than some pure Dynamic Supportives would.

3. While Gary Null is usually right in saying that people should chose careers that suit their NLE,. there have been some "fish out of water" success stories where someone who is not the usual NLE of the people in a particular field, ads new perspective.

For instance:
A Dynamic Supportive in Congress might be able to bring waring factions together.
Someone who had some genuine Adaptive Supportive traits who had a high position in business or government might bring a needed "regular Joe" perspective
Someone who is a Dynamic Assertive factory worker might unionize the plant.

Here are my questions:

1. Have you yourself ever seen any people who seemed to be genuine hybrids of two life energies? Any famous examples.


2. What life energy do you think the following TV/movie characters are:
Michael Schoofield from Prison Break
Forrest Gump
Rose from Titanic

Yours Truly,
J.M.

Here is my reply:

Dear J.M.,

Thanks for your comments, I find your insights most interesting, I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to reciprocate with your questions, however. I am terribly bored with the public face of "famous people", and probably couldn't identify most of them in a line up. I do own a television, but have no reception where I live, and aside from watching an occasional movie it stays off. I have not watched any of the shows/movies you reference.

I am intensely interested in understanding people I know personally though, and especially in trying to figure out what makes each of them "tick". I have found that I am better able to work with others when I have first identified their personality traits. For example, my sister-in-law is a dyed in the wool Creative Assertive, her oldest child is definitely a Dynamic Assertive, and will most likely rule the world when she is old enough. Speculating on the life energy of the mysterious person who mowed my yard while I was off at work two nights ago would fascinate me to no end.

You made one observation which hit very close to home for me, and I wanted to comment specifically on it. You said "Someone who is a Dynamic Assertive factory worker might unionize the plant." In the 1930's, this may have been a good use of life energy, but recall Dr. Null's observation that the Dynamic Assertives are the first to be assasinated following a coup. In today's global economy the Dynamic Assertive factory worker would be much better off developing the persona of a primadonna and devoting her energy to lobbying for equipment and process improvements which save the company thousands of dollars.

Thanks for reading,

Anna
Dynamic Assertive/Dynamic Supportive Factory Worker

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