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[phosfate]

Took Mom in for maintenance this morning. Her BP is actually below 150 most of the time for the first time in at least a year, apparently thanks to Dr Pinhead's new meds. ("Is it wrong to be amazed that something these assholes gave you actually works?" "No. I am.") So yay.

I hate her doctor's waiting room. One of those horrible beige-and-violet things, with steel chairs and a television playing fake health "news" that can't be turned off. Add the hospital smell and you've got a total spirit-crusher of an establishment. Feh. Dr Coffman's dark-paneled, owl-infested waiting room is depressingly prefab southern gothic, but at least it actively wants you dead, instead of going after you with passive-aggressive blandness. And there's no stupid tv.

Stopped at B&N for new Newtype and manga (Kodocha 8 and Demon Diary 2). Again, yay.

I would like to go to sleep for a very long time.

Comments

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Glad your mom's doing ok.

I'm so glad that Dr Ware, once he left the soul-sucking Durham Clinic, never ever used that awful medical tv crap. It's like being stuck in an endless commercial. Oh, and he has Monet prints in his office. Not original, but you can live with it. At least his art is from an artist that you've heard of and doesn't do greeting cards.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Our office is trying to get into the Inspirational Poster kinda thing, supplied on a monthly basis by the EAP. It doesn't work too well, since we tend to hang them at knee-level. There's one by the fax machine with a picture of Ayers Rock on it that says INTEGRITY. I feel like scrawling OPPRESS THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION over it, but don't, mostly because I don't want to hear "What's 'in...di...genius?'" over and over.

Posters

[danakate.livejournal.com]

You should replace the inspirational posters with pages from the 2003 Demotivaters Calendar from Despair. (link)

Re: Posters

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

"As long as we have each other, we'll never run out of problems."

Damn straight!

Re: Posters

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

"Change: when the winds of change blow the strongest, even the smallest things can become deadly projectiles."

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I hate those inspirational posters! I always want to do something to them on the lines of SNL's Deep Thoughts. 'Cept someone already has.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I wish the government still took the AIDS crisis seriously. We had a great one of a naked man wearing only a yellow slicker, wellies, and a firefighter's helmet that said GOOD BOYS ALWAYS WEAR THEIR RUBBERS.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I *heart* that poster.

Of course the gov'ment doesn't take AIDS seriously any more. 'Cause AIDS only happens to those damn sodomites and dirt-poor Africans in countries with no petroluem in for us to care about.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

a picture of Ayers Rock on it that says INTEGRITY. I feel like scrawling OPPRESS THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION over it, but don't, mostly because I don't want to hear "What's 'in...di...genius?'" over and over.

Thank you so much. That and "I see stupid people. They don't know they're stupid" had me in stitches and totally erased the residual glumness from 5 hours of listening to workplace whining courtesy of Ruth Ann The Preaching Pill. I may have to make up a little sign of the stupid people quote and post it in my carrel. (With your permission, of course, O Witty One.)

Heh, heh. Oh, yeah those're *so* good.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Doodle, go right ahead, it certainly ain't mine - 'I see dumb people' shirts appeared shortly after the movie came out, and variations have floated around ever since.

What is a carrel?

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

'I see dumb people' shirts appeared shortly after the movie came out

Really? {laugh} I never saw those shirts. But, then, I didn't see the movie until the 15 times it showed on ABC last year.

A carrel is (according to Websters, which is much more concise than I would ever be): a table that is partitioned or enclosed (partitioned in my case) and is used for individual study or work, esp. in a library.

Wish I worked in a library. That would be so much more pleasant.

The other night, The Pill was telling people that Canada didn't allow Christian radio broadcasts. (You think they're just liked America," she said, "but then you find out they don't allow freedom of religion.") Doubting that mightily, I fired off a call to M. in the Ministry of Communication (or whatever it's called up there that that covers all aspects of the media). She said (of course) that it was bullshit; she could name two Christian radio stations off the top of her head in Ottawa alone. The Pill did not believe this the next evening, because *a Pastor* had told her the erroneous information, so of course his prejudice-mongering lies were sacrosanct. {gagging} Yeah, those Evil Canadians, actually adhering scrupulously to their separation of church and state laws, allowing freedoms that the Christian church frowns upon, so let's just spread lies about them to bolster our side of the story.