I had to take an art history class in college. This interested me not at all. We had to write a paper about an artist of our choosing. H.R. Giger was not on the list, but I made a case for it, and got an A on it in the end.
The university library had several of the books that were out at the time, including Necronomicon and Biomechanics; I got some strange looks from my roommate. The weird dreams fortunately went away relatively quickly.
Casey Kasem passed away on Sunday, June 15th, age 82. Dang.
And Tony Gwynn Tuesday at 54.
Had to Google him (in case anyone else also doesnāt know - baseball player)
A very sad day here in San Diego. I grew up watching him play and the man was a class act. Always had time for the fans.
Just discovered that my āGreat-Auntā Grace died in January, a couple months short of her 99th birthday.
http://www.langelands.com/obituary/Grace-C.-Pollock/Portage-MI/1332282
No, Iām not all that upset about it (she was one of my relatives after all), but I found all of the testimonials left on the site sort of heart-warming.
It also let me know that there are still more relatives alive, so I canāt publish my autobiography yet. And one of them is my mom. Itās been difficult the last couple years to find out if sheās still alive or not.
Iām still trying to figure out who Sara is, considering sheās supposedly one of my cousins, and the info that my grandfather had a brother totally floored me. Nobody ever mentioned him in the 27+ years I had contact with my family.
Many many of my favorite patients that I have been seeing for years. It has been a tough month alreadyā¦
Hang in there. Go play with the puppies and kittens.
Seriously. Unconditional love/adoration and cuteness can cure ācompassion fatigueā (burnout) in a heartbeat.
I spend alot of time reading non-medicine novels and cuddling my own dog. I think heās tired of all the love. But Iām not.
It doesnāt help that my own puppy is now a 10-year-old dog with a recently ruptured ACL and an immune-mediate disease of the eyeball, both of which require daily tending to. Itās impossible to get away from medicating and nurturingā¦
I understand. Iāve been in the position of caregiver many times.
I wasnāt saying to stop nurturing. I was only trying to remind you of the positive side of it.
To tell you the truth, if not for the cold, I could use a swam of puppies on my lap right now.
My cousin Roger. Still donāt know what happened, as he was released from the hospital Tuesday and passed away at some point 24-48 hours later. Iām guessing weāll know more when they release autopsy resultsā¦ I hope, anyway. Middle-aged is still too youngā¦
Iām sorry for your loss, Alexis.
298 passengers from Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 flying over Ukraine.
It looks like Russian separatists shot it down by mistake thinking it was a Ukranian government flight.
Who the hell gives rebels anti air missiles that can reach out and touch an airliner at 33k feet?
The anti-aircraft weapons were supplied by Russia.
The prime suspect is an former Russian intelligence agent. There are very few others who would have the expertise to do it, which is why heās the prime suspect.
Apparently there were social media posts by the russian separatists claiming responsibility until they realised it was a passenger jet, at which time the posts were very quickly removed and they are now denying responsibility.
Russia are saying that it is ultimately the Ukraine governmentās fault, which I think is a way of saying they know who really did it, but itās still the Ukrainiansā fault because they havenāt caved in to Russian demands.
Gosh, and people thought Romney was such an idiot for thinking the Russians were a geopolitical threat. We donāt have the ability to throat punch them anymore, are we going to have to wait until we have to do a draft again to stop the madness?
Is it just me or is all the stuff going down in Ukraine right now mostly caused by Putin being butthurt that Ukraine is no longer part of Russia and possibly trying to make a new USSR?
I get the feeling heās arming the rebels so that he can have plausible deniability when the shit hits the fan in Ukraine and possibly starts WWIII.