Heat

Ok, call me a nutjob, but when I heard this on the radio (I have no CD player, much less MP3) on Sunday, driving in the sweltering heat w/o A/C in my car, I really really liked it-the whole broadcast. It's the one entitled "Heat." I've never heard the pangs of summer put so well before..... maybe I'll listen again when it starts snowing up here in a few weeks....

http://hearingvoices.com/stories.php

PS I still think NPR is ridiculous, but for some reason, I loved this one.

My administrative law professor just said, I think seriously, that Truman is his favorite president. Oh, brother.

Let's not let this one go ignored

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/08/26/michelle-obamas-only-hope-is-that-people-forget-about-what-she-once-said-about-her-vision-of-america-and-instead-focus-on-her-uplifting-message-from-last-night/

I wanted to reprint the whole thing, but I was concerned about copyright infringement. Basically, Michelle vacillates between what a great country this is and how the system is trying to screw everyone. I understand how a person can say that the people in this country are generally good but the government is flawed, etc., but she says outrageous things like "Don't get sick in America." Tell that to the 90%+ of the world who get much worse healthcare than we do. Bitch should be grateful America has so many medical resources. Also, let's not forget that she said she had NEVER BEEN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN until her hubby ran for president. What an abomination. Can you imagine Nancy or Mary Todd or, hell, even Hillary saying something that unpatriotic?

update

So I heard back about my baby's genetics testing, and it turns out
1) she's a Girl! I knew it! (although others had temporarily talked me into thinking she was a he)
2) she was perfectly healthy (i.e., right number of chromosomes and so forth) which means, it really was just a freak cord accident and extremely unlikely to happen again.
So, I have to change what I've been calling her in my head from Joseph to Catherine- I hope she doesn't mind that I've been calling her the wrong name!
But where she is, I don't think anything bothers her (;

PS- I know I ought to be uber happy that she would have been a healthy baby, but in a sense it isn't very comforting, you know? But we have to take the good with the bad. Everything for a reason. And one day I'll either know the reason or be so divinely happy that I won't care.

What's another word for jackass?

Yesterday at work (at the pharmacy) I was wearing the button Loryn got me a long time ago, an American flag and underneath is written: "Peace- Something to shoot for"
Har dee har har
Over the years I have gotten some reactions to that pin, mostly people reading it out loud, and laughing slightly, which, I hope, means they got the double meaning.
But yesterday a particularly chatty & annoying middle-aged man noticed it and said "Don't you think that pin is a little, uh, .... uh.... "
I helped him out. "Patriotic?" I suggested.
"No, not that..... don't you think it's wrong to have 'peace' and 'shoot' in the same sentence?"
Truth be told, I did not care to have a debate with this obnoxious person, especially at work, so I played dumb.
The idiot went on to say, "Why not 'aim for,' or, 'strive for'?"
"Those are all synonyms though, aren't they?" I replied innocently. "Aim, strive, shoot. It's all the same, isn't it? Isn't peace something to shoot for?" I smiled a wide have-a-nice-day smile and the man drifted away slowly, clutching his prescription bag (full of xanax, actually), mulling it over in his tiny brain.

Sorry if my last post was a big ol' shock to everyone. Someone recently told me that more people read my blog than I think, and, well, I assumed that Maggie & Loryn were the only ones who ever checked it out at all. I wouldn't have posted all that so abruptly if I had any idea other people read it. I had only posted it at all because Loryn's not on facebook & I wanted her to be able to see the pics if she wanted.
So..... sorry if it seemed, um, inappropriate or something.
As long as I'm here I'll just say real quick that I'm doing a lot better, emotionally. I was really really really sad when I posted the pics, as you can tell. But after a week or so I was able to master a mantra: "Nothing will bring the baby back- go on with your life!" Maybe it sounds cold, but it's really not. It was like I was peering into this half-crazy self-pitying abyss and I had to jump back really fast before it sucked out a year or more of my life. If crying all day and shutting myself up in my room maybe COULD bring back my little Joseph Gerard, you can bet your booties I'd be giving it a shot. But it can't, so I made myself return to normal as much as I could.
Alright, gotta run now. Thanks everyone- I feel like it was easier to move on having so many prayers and kind wishes to support me! XOXO