My friend Miriam is a home-care nurse. Chicago cops are always nice to nurses. Once she got a ticket for something - as the cop was filling out the ticket, she started doing her paperwork. When the cop asked her what she was doing, she told him, and then he said, "You should have told me you were a nurse. Now that I've started writing the ticket, I can't cancel it. But just show up in court and I'll have the ticket dropped." So that's what she did. In court, the cop waived at her. The cop said something to the judge, and the charge was dropped.
Miriam thinks that cops are afraid they'll end up in the hospital and end up with a nurse who's mad at cops, which is why they're so nice to nurses.
A lot of local DUIs are being challenged because the breathalyzers turned out to be defective. Perhaps this is a sign we should have another F2F here (DC)?
In other news, I want a do-over for the week so far.
Yesterday I was copyediting a piece that had been laid out by the (now departed, but her spirit lingers on) marketing/graphics person. Aside from the fact that it was full of errors - spelling, grammar, punctuation - and inconsistent usages, she decided to do a completely new versin of our logo and use that throughout. That, along, put me in a bad mood. Then my computer got a virus and it's bad enough I couldn't get my antivirus working ... so I'm waiting for tech support. At the time it happened, there was ONE other person in the office and I asked her to send in a request for help (like a good little worker bee I'd disconnected my infected (unclean! unclean!) computer from the network) ... and this morning I found out she'd sent it to the wrong address so it wasn't on the to-do list AND I got lectured about how it was important to send it to the right address so that TPTB could monitor our tech support usage.
So I've spent the past day pretty much non-functional. I've been borrowing other people's computers to get the absolutely necessary stuff that doesn't require e-mail, or the database, or updating the web site (that's my entire job, BTW)done. grrrr
And I tried to do my nails and couldn't get them right. Three times I tried and ended up taking all the polish off and giving up.
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Sorry about your week Toddson. Unfortunately I can't roll back time. Yet.
Gud, when future you reads that in the archives, he will laugh and laugh, then go back in time to un-write it.
You could drive with vertigo? I couldn't even walk down stairs when I had it.
Not to one-up but I literally couldn't open my eyes (which according to witnesses were rolling uncontrollably in my head) without puking when I had the vertigo. I think vertigo severity can vary widely.
I am so excited that it's going to be sunny out when I drive home!!!
I rarely get to wake up without an alarm due to diabetic cat needing his shot around 7ish even if I have no morning obligations.
Ugh. I didn't get the position. I don't even know what to think at this point.
That sucks megan. I'm sorry.
More on the changes to Texas school books: Removing Jefferson From History, Ctd
In her recent profile of the Texas Board of Education, Mariah Blake mentions the woman who pushed to remove Jefferson:
After the 2006 election, Republicans claimed ten of fifteen board seats. Seven were held by the ultra-conservatives, and one by a close ally, giving them an effective majority. Among the new cadre were some fiery ideologues; in her self-published book, Cynthia Dunbar of Richmond rails against public education, which she dubs “tyrannical” and a “tool of perversion,” and says sending kids to public school is like “throwing them into the enemy’s flames.” (More recently, she has accused Barack Obama of being a terrorist sympathizer and suggested he wants America to be attacked so he can declare martial law.)
