Friday, September 9, 2005

Somebody Told Me--The Killers

Whew! I've been away for such a long time! I hope you'll all forgive me. I've had an interesting month. I actually thought my part-time copyediting job would raise my hours for a while there, but unfortunately not. I did get a pay raise, though! But, now I'm back down to about 10 hours of work per week. It's pretty boring, actually. We sit around and quibble over appropriate Chicago-style documentation for online and translated resources. Zzzzz... In other news, my sister had a kidney stone! She couldn't pass it by Labor Day, so she was wheeled into surgery early this week. They couldn't perform the lithotripsy because it was lodged too close to her ovaries. They had to go in and blast it apart with a lazer. Her recovery was slow, and she's still nauseated by the anesthetic. The nurses at her doctor's office and at the hospital were complete idiots. If you become a nurse, don't presume to think you know more about a patient's sufferings than your patient does (my sis had to call for a prescription for nausea today, even though she explained she was nauseous before being released from the hospital). Also, don't presume you know more about drugs than someone who is a doctor of pharmacy--they know when you're BSing them, or faulty in your own knowledge (whichever these conditions afflicted those nurses--I'm not sure which). Also, I opted to edit scans for a scanslation group. We'll see how well that goes. My test was deemed "OK," so who knows what these people really think of my skills? Still, I'm excited. And, somehow, I'm supposed to be working on my dissertation through all of this. Yeah...that's gonna happen. Seriously, it seems like the least fun thing I can imagine doing right now. Rockstar: INXS--Obsession follows-- Well, Jordis is gone. She was really declining in energy and confidence this week, and I never enjoyed her performances as much as some of the others (she should have been axed after botching Layla and Dream On). But, I do think she has amazing talent, and I hope to see more of her in the future. I can't believe JD is doing so well. He's just so sleazy; he makes all of his songs sleazy, even when they aren't supposed to be. He's like dirty Elvis. Marty's original song, "Trees," was amazing. I couldn't believe he didn't win that encore this week, nor that MiG wasn't in the bottom three (his generic song made me want to do something drastic to one of us).

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