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January 31, 2008
There are no loosers here
"can i entice you to send ten bucks to children in cambodia?" reads the chat screen pop-up from my sister-in-law. It's not really about ten dollars, or children in Cambodia. It's about winning a competition for $50,000 which will go toward educating children in Cambodia.
After donating I go back to the leaderboard page, and refresh it obsessively watching the gap tighten between the current first place holder, educating children in India, and the children in Cambodia which is holding second place. 18 names, now 8 names, now two and finally tied with 1482 names each. It's as exciting as a horse race.
Being first or second does not matter in this contest, the top four charities each receive $50,000. There is no more incentive to be #1 than #4, except that you might not get bumped out at the last minute. I look down the list to see who is in fifth place; "Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso". This is absolutely brilliant. A competition with no loosers.
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January 24, 2008
Hmmmph.....
I have been accused of being a princess......
All I can say is "If the tiera fits..... wear it".
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January 20, 2008
Send Help!!!!!
Today, due to a blonde moment, I forgot to pack my book when I headed out to do laundry. Stuck listening to the Lady Vols game on the radio I rummaged through the car looking for anything to occupy my brain and stumbled on a catalog which arrived earlier in the week. Usually I disregard catalogs that come in the mail, because most of them are for previous occupants of my house. This one was actually for me. From a company called "The Teaching Company". How they got my name, I have no clue, I suspect it was from one of the random companies where I've made online purchases, who make more money selling my personal information than any other income stream.
Sending me this catalog is worse than sending a drug addict a crack-of-the-month subscription. What were they thinking? There are noticable drool stains on the page with the "Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning" course, not to mention the page with "The Story of Human Language" and "The Psychology of Human Behavior"
I thought I could escape using the "I'm not an auditory learner" loophole, but, now I've discovered through their website I can order transcripts of each course, and "read" them. This could be a real crisis.
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New Soul
I don't know why, but this video from Yael Naim makes me smile. And press "replay". Repeatedly.
(Thanks to the ever fabulous Jen Lemen for the discovery.)
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January 19, 2008
This week was not the week I planned. Not that I had any great plans for the week, just that things were not normal, everyday, low-key activities I expect.
Monday was a doctor appointment. For some reason this doctor and I are like oil and water. It's not necessarily his fault, but if there were an award for the most disorganized medical practice, his would win. I think they hold planning meetings prior to my appointments to decide what they can do to irritate me, they're just so good at it.
This time they started by asking for my co-pay before being seen. In most other medical facilities I would have no problem with this, but I seriously doubt their ability to keep track of a piece of paper for longer than two minutes. Perhaps if it weren't for the prior experience of sitting in an exam room for half an hour listening to them play hide and seek with the x-ray taken minutes before, while they whispered to each other about how long I had been sitting in the room my perspective would be different.
My next issue surfaced with the sniffling, sneezing, potentially contagious x-ray tech. Why on earth would she be allowed to interact with patients in such a condition, especially knowing the majority of their patients have supressed immune systems? I made a mental note to load up on Vitamin C and crossed my fingers.
After seeing the doctor I was back out at the desk, making an appointment for next year. When I insisted on a Monday morning appointment she informed me that he does not see patients in the morning if they are also scheduled for tests. I looked at the clock and wondered if she realized it was morning, and he had just seen me, even though I was also scheduled for tests. She continued to stare blankly at the computer screen and finally asked me if I could make it in by 10:15. I guess afternoon comes much sooner then it used to.
Two days later I landed in the waiting room of the doctor I get along with in the most intense pain I could ever imagine (please, hold your childbirth stories, they could not possibly compare). I spent a couple hours trying to convince myself the pain would go away, or at least lessen with ibuprophen, before I turned myself in. Fortunately for me the pain was not caused by any big, scary or hard to fix issues, just pleurisy (which explains why trying to relax and breathe into the pain was not working). A week of taking the wonder drug prednisone and I will be good as new. The pain subsided almost as quickly as the after taste from the wonder pills.
Of course, this means for the rest of the course of treatment I will behave like a frat boy, doing little more than eating and sleeping (kindly disregard the empty pizza boxes and dirty socks strewn around, they mean nothing).
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January 7, 2008
I am so confused....
My calendar says "January", my thermometer says "April".
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January 6, 2008
Exposed....
My secret life, revealed for all the world to see.
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