Monday's Missives

Ellie Mae- where did the years go?

• Yesterday a girl asked asked where I had been. I replied, You mean as in, this morning or all your life? She called me moco, which is Spanish for snot. I knew then my work there was done.



• Zac asked for candy when we got home from Olive Garden. I reminded him he already had candy at OG in the chocolate mints he ate. His reply? That wasn't candy- that was food!



• My house got so out of control recently my buddy who drops by to use the Internet cleaned while I was out one evening. He must have spent a couple of hours on it.



• A couple of days ago I bought some just ripe bananas. Today, they're so overripe it's unlikely I'll eat them. I wonder why they ripened so quickly?



• I almost always misspell bananas.



• What I called show and tell in school when I was a kid is more often called show and share today.



• One of of my patients is schizophrenic. While she is legitimately profoundly disabled by it, she also gets a kick out of scaring people by walking like a zombie and alternating between expressions of a blank thousand yard stare and burning anger. After noting her engage in getting a charge out of seeing people being fearful of her I betrayed my perception by grinning at her and shaking my head. Later while drawing her blood she looked hard at me. Again, I smiled and shook my head. She busted out laughing. Then I did the same- while trying to hold a winged collett needle (butterfly) in her arm and change out collection tubes.



• After watching Afghans fishing with RPGs I think we can die whole and complete.