Wednesday's Digressions

• Alger Texas Alexander was a Texas blues musician from Jewett . A cousin of Lightning Hopkins he was known for free rhythm singing making him notoriously hard to play for. He spent some time in prison for murder of his wife. He died of syphilis at 53 in Houston. Frisco Train Blues.
• At work I joked that I would love to take some of the ginger ale I was offered but some horrible person had stolen my disposable plate, cups and plastic ware I had stashed in a cabinet. I thought I knew my audience. I was proven wrong when the next day somebody came into my office while I was with a patient and said This is from ___________ and dropped a bag of the same type stuff in my sink and walked out. Good grief. 
• It is a burden, I tell ya.
• The wind chimes sound really, extra beautiful tonight.
• You appreciate the little things after dealing with horrible, horrible people.
• I cancelled a day off new years eve so my nursing buddy could have it so she could use her VIP tickets for a show.
• Recently a couple of women have been very pushy about trying to get me to have sex with them.
• Hot apple cider- my drink of choice at this moment (12/27/2012 @1831).
• A defect in our legal system: Jail house snitch testimony. You'll put another human away forever (or actually kill them) on the word of a person whom a cop would literally not trust to hear out trying to talk his way out of a traffic ticket?! That literally makes no sense.
• I saw a mid 40s to early 50s couple in a restaurant recently. They had orange tans. She wore an Ed Hardy T and one of those rhinestone cross Bedazzled caps. He wore an Affliction T and had spiked hair. They both wore jeans with designs stitched in and the knees fashionably torn.
• 12/21/2012 was not the end of the world- that will come when I correctly spell restaurant on the first try. 
• Lucky you- I didn't get it right then either.

Mondays Missives

• A lot of people who have been comatose open their eyes as they die. The first thing you think when you see it happen is what do they see? If they are looking at a blank wall I step into their field of view with a kind/warm expression and smile at them and tell them they will be OK and then back away. If looking toward a window or family portraits etc. I leave it at that.



• A 100 years from now people will be wearing Polo and Henley shirts.



• It made no sense in the 50s and 60s when the designers of the day would roll out ridiculous looking dress made of plastics. Styles may come and go (and come back even) but, a human wrapped in plastic will always be a bad idea.



• Things aren't often as they seem nor do they turn out the way we envision they will.



• Someone recently told me I would look good in a pink polo shirt. I think pink shirts for guys may be the white devils lie but, I guess I'll keep an open mind. I think women should wear pink though.



• The patient I mentioned in the past who played golf into her 80s looked at me like I was an imbecile and said,"You better start." when I told her I never played.



• Recently a nurse from another agency made a very overt sexual advance toward me- kind of freaked me out at first then made me feel good.



• It usually starts with them rubbing my bald head...