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| 2009-11-19 19:42 |
| the few things i know for sure right now |
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I'm really not ready to be back at work.
I miss a lot of people right now, very very much.
This is partly why people like Phillip K. Dick were life-savers for me when I was a kid- they were working out these huge questions in a place I could get to without having to be a grown-up first. Tolkien too, and the fairy tales... i will be forever ever grateful for them.
Music is a life-saver.
so is the internet.
Life is precious, living is a gift.
tonight i'm awfully thin-skinned, full-hearted, and more than a bit sentimental.
I am so very fortunate in my friends. Thank you, everyone, so very very much.
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Medical, nursing schools need to work together | Healthcare Finance News
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No shit. Ya think?
And it'd be nice to have Nursing's voice taken seriously. Tell the truth- when's the last time (and I love my docs, love love love them) the doctor spent 8 hours at your bedside in ICU, put in your IV in ER, or wiped up your vomit on the med/surg floor? [And if your nurse/nurse's aid DIDN'T, that's not a criticism of nursing. It's a criticism of how thinly stretched nursing is.]
I'm inviting responses, dialogue, criticism, commentary, and your stories. I've got something brewing that can't quite come to a boil, yet, about all this and the health-care/health insurance/public health/personal health debacle/debate that's going on nationally, but I need more points of view, more facets, to properly focus the light so I can see what I'm really looking at.
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Yesterday, in the States, was Veteran's Day. I remember it being Armistice Day when I was very young...
Anyway, one US-centric article and one US-centric memoir-essay about war, and the wish for peace.
The Anguish of War for Today’s Soldiers, Explored by Sophocles.
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: November 12, 2009
A project uses ancient theater as a vehicle for sharing pain, learning and healing. (NYT)
( Full text in case link will not work )
Sgt. First Class Tony Gonzalez, an Iraq combat veteran from Brooklyn who was on the panel, recalled that post-traumatic stress disorder was rarely discussed when he first joined the Army. He described his own pain after his platoon captain was killed and he went to pay respects to the man’s wife, also a friend and member of the military.
And he praised the use of theater to help put a spotlight on trauma.
“I’ve been Ajax,” he said. “I’ve spoken to Ajax.”
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One Grizzled Veteran's Dream
Huffington Post
William Astore
Writer, Professor, Retired Lt. Colonel, Air Force
Posted: November 11, 2009 08:05 AM
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On this Veteran's Day, what if we began to measure our national success and power, not by our military arsenal or by the number of new recruits in the ranks, but rather by the gradual shrinking of our military ranks, the decline of our spending on defense, perhaps even by the growing quiet of our legion posts and VFW halls?
Wouldn't that be a truer measure of national success: fewer American combat veterans?
Wouldn't that give us something to celebrate this Veteran's Day?
I know one old grizzled veteran who would quietly nod his agreement.
Professor Astore currently teaches History at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, PA. He writes regularly for TomDispatch.com and can be reached at wastore at pct.edu.
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Men of Middle Earth awards:
There are only ten days left to cast your votes for the ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) mome_awards; voting ends at 11:59 pm on Saturday, November 21. With 70 different pairings in both real and fictional person slash, there's something for everyone. Check out the ballot and if you have any questions, just let foxrafer (on LJ) know.
Any reminders you'd like to post at your journals would be greatly appreciated. :-)
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| 2009-11-10 05:02 |
| National Memory Screening Day is November 17, 2009 [USA] |
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http://nationalmemoryscreening.org/index.php
seems like a good idea. dunno if I'll make it- the 17th is a sleep-day for me- but I'm going to call a couple of the places near-ish to me anyway, see what their hours will be.
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Translated by Merryn Williams
If I die,
leave the balcony open.
The child is eating oranges.
(From my balcony I see him.)
The harvester scythes the wheat.
(From my balcony I hear him.)
If I die,
leave the balcony open!
thanks to pollyanna in ![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) poetry
For no particular reason. Just enjoying life, tonight.
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So. two months later, much physical therapy, and generous help and support from friends, and I'm back at work tonight at the lad's house.
some things have changed- i'm more careful about how i do things. the family's is supposed to change a couple things, haven't yet. dunno if they will. but now i have the agency's backing, so eventually change will happen.
lad himself is doing well- smiled when i took his vitals, went right back to sleep.
brought my putty, my elastic bands, and my yoga mat. so if you email or ping me and i don't answer, it's because i'm busy getting sleek and fit. or, you know, something like that.
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Starting on Thursday, November 5 at Boston University, Howard Zinn and producers and cast from THE PEOPLE SPEAK are embarking on a national college tour for Howard's forthcoming documentary feature film THE PEOPLE SPEAK.
All events are FREE!
To reserve a seat in advance (highly recommended) and for more info visit:
http://www.history.com/thepeoplespeakcollegetour
http://www.facebook.com/HowardZinn
( Coming soon to a campus near you! )
And check out The People Speak -- airing on History on December 13, 2009 -- the documentary inspired by Voices of a People's History of the United States and produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn, and featuring Damon, Brolin, Rosario Dawson, Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman, John Legend, Viggo Mortensen, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei, and Kerry Washington.
See a sneak peek preview at http://www.thepeoplespeak.com
( Read more... )
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ok, nursing/medical shows? get your shit together. it doesn't take that much longer to do things right- trust me, i've been an RN for thirty years. it really doesn't take any time at all to do it right.
what brought this on? decided to check out Three Rivers tonight.
oh, god, the amount of money spent on fancy monitors and yet you can't get the mask on the respiratory patient correctly? you can't wipe off the connections before giving IV meds? you can't put the rails up on people's beds? but you can have fbi escorts through bomb scares, and people go off to surgery without a signed consent or any kind of checklist even a nameband, and the transplant surgeon comes into OR with her hair hanging out of her cap? yes, it's great that you've got a female transplant surgeon- so why does she have to be sloppy? why aren't the nurses on top of their patients' vitals- oh, i know because nurses don't actually do anything, except steal drugs (nurse jackie) or sleep with the docs (mercy).
it'd be SO EASY to do these little things correctly. so easy. and give people just that much more of a fighting chance of understanding how things work when they go to the hospital. which would be nice, yanno? because we have enough to do, doing things right, without cleaning up misconceptions people get from your sloppy misleading television.
just sayin.
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I do like community...and while I prefer to be 'invisible', I don't like to be alone. I want to see the research, now...
Group culture protects from depression
from the Press Release page of The Royal Society
28 Oct 2009
Collectivistic cultures, which promote social harmony over individuality, protect people who are genetically predisposed to depression from experiencing the condition. So says a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which looks at how genes and environment can evolve together.
People living in individualistic cultures such as Western societies are more likely to suffer from a genetic tendency for depression than people in Eastern cultures, despite fewer people carrying the specific 'depression gene' being studied, say psychologists Joan Chiao and Katherine Blizinsky from Northwestern University. The research supports the idea that depression can result from both genes and the environment, and an interaction of the two.
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I found out about this movie because my son's involved with getting the distribution going, but now that I've seen the trailer, I just want to share the movie! http://omgmovie.com/ (I have a special fondness for Mr. Jackman, for lots of reasons. This just adds to them.)
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I would be remiss if I didn't link to alliwantisanelf's marvelous series of posts from last year in honor of Fire Prevention Month, including the very useful stuff people brought up in the comments. It's too easy to take for granted that our cities won't burn to the ground, but in fact, it's always a danger- this is why I support my local fire department's fund-raising activities, and hope you support your local fire department, too.
That said, anyone bring the marshmallows?
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So Fucking much
AND the creativity of the Original Poster.
theme music for the WIN.
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Y'all might know by now that when I'm working, I work night shift. Let me say right up front, yes, this is a choice I make, so that I can accommodate my various little frailties and still work enough hours to qualify for benefits most of the time. So, yes, the burden of accommodating the inconveniences of working nights is on me, I understand that.
That said, I have a new thing to work out. ( In which I go into some detail, both to set the scene and to present what I've already got as my night shift accommodation program. )
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| 2009-10-10 20:20 |
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from RR on LJ [direct quote cut&paste]
"Geocities
Did y'all know they were closing?
I've known that Geo is closing for nearly 2 months, but
I've seen a few people saying "OMG, what?" stuff in their LJs.
October 26th is Dead Day according to Geo, so people with
Geocities as a host need to 1) save your stuff on your computer, 2)
pay $5 or so a month to have Geo host it as a paid member.
Fans: Quick--run to all your favorite stories, archives, fan sites hosted by
Geo and save them to your computer unless the archivist has *stated* that
they're planning to reupload them somewhere else.
I think that many fanfic writers are not planning to move their site.
Fandom love comes and goes, and if your fave author has not been active
for awhile, they might not even realize Geo is about to pull the plug."
so, yeah- if something you love is on geocities, grab&go if that's possible.
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Went to the Mill Valley Film Festival tonight.
There is so much to say, and there are so few words to say it with.
Director John Hillcoat was there and spoke briefly before the showing. What a lovely man. So respectful of Cormac McCarthy's story, and the way it came to him. Courteous to the actors in the way he spoke of them. Grateful for being able to work in this medium of film, of storytelling. Appreciative that MVVF found a way to have the film as part of its opening night films. Thankful that we were all there for a 9:40pm screening.
His voice, when he spoke about Kodi- genuine respect, genuine care, genuine love.
The film: I'll talk more about it after its gone into as wide a release as it's going to. This, I'll say: I have never seen a more honest love story between parent and child. I've never seen a better filmic telling of a written tale. I've never seen so grim and sad a background bring to life the small things and large which make us humane, make us human. I've not felt this kind of hope in years.
It's technically perfect, from what I can tell. The acting is - it's remarkable. Everything I knew about them from the book, is in the film. The directing, the editing, the cinematography, costuming, set design and decoration, location scouting- to the last detail, perfect.
I don't expect it to win awards. It's --- people are scared of this world, this post-something world where it's down to who you brought with you inside yourself from before, and who you let yourself become, after, and what you leave of yourself with others. It is frightening to look at- but for me, it's more frightening not to look.
I want to be one of the good guys. I want to die carrying the fire.
I'm so very, very glad I saw this movie. I'll never see anything in my life the same way again.
It will always, always look better now, than it did before this evening.
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