Another reason to love Aughra

Besides all the other obvious ones. She introduced me to the glory that is Television Without Pity. Because of this glorious website, I am able to sit in front of the computer for hours at a time staring into space reading snarky comments about Noah Wyle's craptacular facial hair, the amazing Suckness of Charmed, and my personal favorite- recaps of Deadwood. . Not usually one to jump into forums cause I'm shy (hee), I have turned into a dedicated Deadwood forum hooplehead. My goal is to reach Loyal Viewer status, up from Channel Surfer.

Like Buffy brought me and Aughra together, my love for Deadwood has won me a super cool friend named DoraDuFran who shares in my John Hawkes as Sol Star fandom. She mails me videos of X-Files episodes, I mail her CDs.

Yay for the Internet.

I guess any website advocated by Dawson Leery would be bad

but Ain't it Cool news has the sketchiest forums ever. The people who comment (well, insult each other and pick at the giant, festering blackheads on their foreheads as they chant "I OWNED HIM" after posting another derogatory comment) are just so fucking lame.

Please see as example:
from a post about Deadwood returning for a second season- this is pretty tame.

"the fact that you refer to the characters on "deadwood" as "cursing cowboys" tells me you will not -- make that cannot -- appreciate the genius of the show. stop wasting time trying to get through the dvd's. go back to viewing your "er" and "law & order" reruns on tnt."

ok, from news about casting for X3 , the 3rd X-Men movie, this is a better example of the typical chatter.


Re:Juggernaut
The guy is bigger than humans and some buildings and saying that he is 7ft is laugable! If he isn't 10ft or over than don't bother having him in the damn movie!


Ian McShane as Sebastian Shaw...
...Josh Holloway as Gambit...and lets see.... Jeri Ryan as the White Queen. These are only my opinions so a pre-emptive F#CK YOU goes out to the haters.


She-Hulk
I bet you drooling wanks cant wait to see him fuck She Hulk on the screen Immature fucktards.


Could be good, but I don't have a good feeling....
They could do it the same way as LOTR and Harry Potter to make him seem much bigger. But something tells me this is going to be along the lines of the shitty Thing they came up with for the Fantastic 4 movie...

I was going to cut/paste some more, but it's just too lame and I can't be bothered. Sigh.

Tomorrow: Photos of the scar on my ankle


Try to contain your excitement. Oh, and Aughra I will e-mail you that picture so you can post it for me, ok?

The Famous Nigerian Bank E-mail scam

Or something. Ever hear of this? What in the holy hell? How on earth did this guy get my e-mail address? This is nuts. This is the exact e-mail, copied and pasted here for your viewing pleasure.

Dear Sir,

I personally decided to put in writing as below, the full details of this
business proposal that I have been trying to explain to you. I have a
re-profiling amount in an excess of US$183.5M, which I seek your partnership in
accommodating for me. I am willing to give out 25% of this total sum to you for
your quick assistance and partnership, 70% for me and while 5% should be set
side for reimbursement of any unforeseen expenses we both might incure in the
cause of this transaction. However, I sincerely seek your confidence in this
transaction, which I am proposing to you.

My name is Robert Bada, I am the personal assistance to the former President of
Republic of Liberia (President Charles Taylor). President Charles Taylor
decided on the 11th of August 2003 to go into exile in a neighboring country
Nigeria to seek asylum.  Based on these developments, his various foreign bank
accounts have been frozen and some are still under serious investigation. But
in the light of all these happenings, President Charles Taylor was able,
through the help of some loyalist succeeded to secretly move the sum of
US$183.5M, on my name as the owner to a private security company vault in
Nigeria where the final crediting is expected to be carried out later. All the
depositing documents of the above fund were on my name and they are still in my
possession


What I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum and
I will arrange for the documentation which will enable the Security Company
transfer / wire the fund to your bank account. I have decided to do this only
with you and use this sum to relocate to European or American continent and
never to be connected to any of President Charles Taylor’s conglomerates. This
transaction can be concluded in 2 weeks.

URGENT:
It well be better If you can call me on telephone number 23417755778 (feel free
to call), so i can give you more clear explanations details and information
about this transaction. PLEASE REPLY me only to this my private email address:
rbada@poffwebmail.com I will also need your direct telephone and fax number for
easy reach. Please this is a very confidential matter, nobody knows about it,
so you don't disclose it to anybody for us to have success. Please i need you
to send me your telephone number so i can give you a call immediately for more
discusion. As soon as I get your positive response, I will send you more
information to you.

Best regard

Mr. Robert Bada

Tomorrow my leg is free!

Huzzah! Huzzah! I also get to shave the left leg, which is very exciting to me because I have never in my life looked this much like some girl passed out in a van at a Phish show.

Tomorrow I also go to the library to pick up a bunch of new books to get me through the rest of my convalescence and for physical therapy to drown out the fact that I'm being electrocuted (it's part of the therapy). So...

Please recommend books!

(I like mysteries that take place in England. I don't know why. I like the whole "Chief Inspector" thing. ) Things like this but in book form. Not that I don't own aforementioned series on DVD. Aughra has influenced me in agreeing that, yes, Clive Owen is indeed lovely.

But, I will read almost anything and if just one or two of you could recommend something and tell me a little bit about it, I'd be dead chuffed. Heh. Dead chuffed.

Thanks!

Everyone loves drug commercials, right?

On another link from the nurse blog, I found this great blog written by a nursing student who works in the CCU (maybe ICU I forgot) as a nurses' aid, which if you don't know is a crazy hard job requiring an iron stomach (lots of bad smells) and the ability to lift 400 lbs, and tolerate tons of abuse from all kinds of people for crap wages. In other words, she's way tougher than me. She had this great link though, about drug commericals. It's a song and it's pretty funny.

Chris Rock had a bit about commercials and one of them saying, in the serious voice over of course, "Do you go to bed at night and wake up in the morning?" and him freaking out "I've got that! I do that!". Bug's company used to represent commercial directors as well, and there was one faux drug ad that had someone running through a field while side effects were listed: Exploding eyeballs, sausage fingers, explosive diarrhea, etc.

It reminds me of an old joke about teenaged boys trying to figure out what tampons were, and rationalizing that they made girls go horseback riding and play tennis and go to the beach. The Valtrex commercials seem to suggest that kayaking is a side effect of herpes. I also love how they play the Valtrex commercials during Blind Date and Shipmates late at night on UPN.

The commericals are really scary, considering that it's the PHYSICIAN (shout out to britnurse) who is supposed to be all knowledgable about what drugs to prescribe for various condtions yet these commercials make people go to the doctor and demand these drugs. Big Pharma and all that, rah rah. There is a doctor's office two houses down from me and I see drug reps all the time. Usually I try to beg pens and other freebies off of them. It works best if I'm in scrubs. Once I got a bag of 45 pens, three water free hand wash gels and a clipboard. I think it was for...hell I can't remember what drug.

At work sometimes we'll trade pens- "I'll give you time release morphine for your dopamine antagonist!"

Knitting is hard and this Town is Too Damned Expensive

Have finally learned how to knit. Can do one stitch- basic knit stitch. Cannot work with needles that are not massive and therefore speed up knitting process. Small needles take too long. Also use fluffy yarn that hides mistakes. Bug now has two weird looking, slightly disfigured scarves. I want to make something cool but am unable to learn any other stitches or understand the mechanics of the "circular" knitting needles. Hmm.

Staying home all the time making me insane. So bored. Dog sick of looking at me. Want to shop online but as am not working and have no real income, this is bad idea. Spend lots of time looking at houses near Aughra so that I can move out there as the area in which I currently rent and spend $12000 a year to pay someone else's mortgage, is insane. In the town I live in, for example, a search on Remax.com tells me that in this town, this is the cheapest available house. Oh, and taxes cost $8000 a year. This is what you get for living right outside of NYC.

And now for something completely different.

Go here and buy this. You can listen to 3 of the songs. It's groovy. Mine is on the way.

For you, Britnurse

britnurse said...
You are such a great advocate for your Patients- NOT! I bet it took "balls" to glare at the Physician when he wasn't looking.
Demerol has been banned from our formulary due to the ineffectiveness for pain.
Perhaps you should confront the Physician. Try other pain meds to better treat pain."

I think it's great that the facility you work at has banned Demerol. However, the hospital in which I work has not. I work in a small community hospital where many of the physicians have been there since the first brick was laid for the foundation. Dr. Sarfari Browser is one of those physicians. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that perhaps your nursing administration is an advocate for your nurses. Mine is not. When the physicians are unhappy about anything- be it that a nurse took too long to answer the phone due to the, I don't know, dressing change she might be performing, that physician will call the nursing director. The nursing director will then call the floor and demand to speak to the nurse, reminding her that if the physicians are not happy, then they will not admit patients. If they don't admit patients, the hospital will close, considering that there are 2 larger local hospitals within 10 miles. Our facility has taken the "medicine as businesss first" mentality and run with it.

In the brief period I have been a nurse (a little less than a year) I've witnessed the DON calling the floor for the lucky ones and coming up in person to berate in front of the other nurses, patients, and family members for those who are not lucky more than 2 dozen times. Why don't I leave this amazing hospital then, you may ask? Because I want to put my time in and learn from the nurses I work with. In addition, I don't think my leaving right now will do anything to benefit those patients who might be lucky enough to have Dr. Safari Browser as their physician, coming in to rip the dressings off their wounds without pain medication. He is supposed to be retiring in the fall, incidentally.

As for the specifics of the pain management for this patient- as she is the one I am referring to- I encouraged her to make sure that she felt her pain was managed and to refuse to allow anyone to do anything to her leg if it was not. I try to encourage all my patients to stand up for themselves and not allow themselves to be abused or neglected at the hands of the physicians. Granted, I should have stated this to her before the physician did the unmedicated dressing change, but considering it is post Civil War times, I never thought the fucker would be that barbaric.

The physicians on the whole- not this one- prescribe pain medication based on what they think is appropriate based on the condition and the patient's allergies. At rest, my little lady didn't experience any pain unless she moved the leg a great deal or it was handled. How do I know this? Because I asked her. I take the patient's word for the level of pain they are experiencing. If at any time the Demerol had been insufficient in treating the pain during the dressing change- and believe me I asked- I would have immediately covered the wound with .9 saturated kerlix and called the physician, demanding that something else be prescribed for pain. I am a new nurse, and I am still learning. Being terminated for insubordination to a physician at my oh so modernized facility is not something I aspire to.

And as for your capitalizing of Physician, eww. I'm not going to encourage their god complexes.

Oh, and I found the demerol to work pretty well when I came out of surgery.