Xander ,'End of Days'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It sounds like something Nurse Ratched would actually be good at.
I remember reading a profile of the nurses who work on a burn unit, and the writer made a good point about how tough they have to be in order to debride burns, which is intensely painful for the patient -- but the patient truly will not live (let alone get better) if it is not done, so the nurses were both very empathetic to their patients AND rather indifferent to the amount of pain they caused.
I made it to Sephora without killing anyone! Of course, on the way home, I realized that I need to hit B&N and another place before my Christmas shopping is done. So close! SO CLOSE.
I saw this guy [link] give an extraordinary safety presentation once. He was not following safety procedures and was burned over half of his body. He was in the hospital for five years. He said when someone was brought into the burn unit as badly burned as he was, he prayed they'd die.
Good for him for turning his personal tragedy into something that can help other people.
In one part of his speech, he talked about the safety rule that they wear fire-resistant clothing. It was hot, he said, and he had gotten in the habit of rolling up his sleeves. He then rolled up his sleeves and showed the scar tissue that stopped at the line to where his sleeves were rolled. By the end, I don't think there was a dry eye.
Shakespeare had a line about armor "that scalds with safety."
Right on! Chris Dodd just won his fillibuster and Reid has just pulled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor of the Senate - the one giving retroactive immunity to telecoms who illegally complied with DOJ info requests.
Shame on you, Harry Reid!
Go Dodd.
My problem at the moment is (a) have to finish a bunch of writing by tomorrow so I get paid; (b) my friend Chip sent me some really delicious toffee. Which I can't stop eating. But I haven't had dinner.
But it's soooo good.
If Lee were around she'd save me from my toffee.
You need the toffee for energy.
Candy for dinner is one of the perks of being a grownup. Of course, then you feel crappy after.