Katherine

Most of these entries are friends-only. I will probably add you if you ask, though. I just fear employers.

in German "to help" is an intransitive verb.

AAAAAAAA FUTURE AAAAAAAAAAA PMS AAAAAAAAAAA

That is all.

So move, yeah move.
So move, yeah move.
I've got nowhere to go, I've got nowhere to go.
So move, don't move so slow, don't move so slow.
I can't take it, I can't whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.

That is all.

I've been listening to music by Stephen Chatman, a composer from Minnesota and Vancouver, a lot (one of my coworkers is going to graduate school under him, which reminded me of one of his song cycles I sang in high school), and there's something about it that makes it feel like music of the north (maybe the title of the record, Due North).  He sets a lot of famous poets (like Percy Shelley).

MUSIC, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

A great commencement speech given by the former executive director of Amnesty International:
http://commencement.vassar.edu/2006/060528.schulz.html

Obama's budget summary from the New York TImes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/us/politics/27web-budget.html

Commentary by Paul Krugman:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/opinion/27krugman.html

Sean Penn's acceptance speech for winning the Best Actor Oscar for Milk: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhJOT7CHO94

Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking (spoilers):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaEGK1bbxCQ

Sean Penn in Milk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unu-9vM9VZw

I can't  even tell they're the same person!

can still calculate driving directions between Chicago, IL and Japan!

VOTE

Yesterday we took two patients in a row.

We took the first patient, a hospice patient diagnosed with end-stage Parkinsons' disease, home to her family. They had hired two home-care nursey-people. TWO! (One of them was probably a nursing assistant.) When we got there the apartment felt warm and was filled with about five people waiting for her (three family, two carepeople) with a bed ready in the living room. After seeing his mother the son burst into tears.

The next patient we took had no family in sight. I checked his paperwork and found he was funded solely by Medicaid. He went to a state rehabilitation and nursing center, and during the whole trip he was saying, "No, I don't want to go back. I don't want to go back. No. No." Since he wasn't alert and oriented times three, though, which means alert and aware of 1) who you are, 2) where you are, and 3) time (some indication of knowing the approximate date and time of day, although with a lot of leeway since I don't even know the date half the time), he wasn't legally competent to refuse transport, so we took him anyway. We took him to this piece of shit nursing home. The light was dingy and the walls were full of dings; I have no idea when they were painted last. There were four people total in his room and I saw maybe 4 nurses or nursing assistants on the floor for . . . 20 rooms? More, maybe? I'm sure they weren't all full or 4-person rooms, but even if they were half full . . . that's 40 patients for, what, 4 people? We took him off the stretcher, arranged his blankets, gave him his stuff, got the nurse to sign for him, and left.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2J8KJDsqqY

So VOTE!

I like fall.

here.

http://www.rockthevote.com/

Deadlines vary by state, but some are as early as October 4.

http://www.rockthevote.com/voting-is-easy/important-dates/

Katie

Eeeee-va?

Wall-eee!

Directive.

on recommendation by my mother.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9_8vwx2w8

I was bruised and battered and I couldn't tell
what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
Saw my reflection in a window I didn't know
my own face
Oh brother are you gonna leave me
wasting away
On the streets of Philadelphia

I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone
At night I could hear the blood in my veins
Just as black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia

Ain't no angel gonna greet me
It's just you and I my friend
And my clothes don't fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles
just to slip this skin

The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss
or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia

In summary: Thumbs up.  I want people to go see it this weekend so it makes enough that we get a third movie because I believe, after this film, that there really is room for more quality X-Files.  I think a lot of reviewers (most of whom probably don't know the television series well) missed a lot of the subtleties developed in the movie when they panned it .  It's a thinking movie in a lot of ways.  I know the show died when Mulder and Scully got together and I know it went to crap near the end, but this movie picks it back out of the crap and makes good headway toward creating quality X-Files again.  The writers stay true to the characters in a way I fear they didn't in the last two seasons and even without completely rejecting the last two years of canon.  GO!

Hi, void!

Does anyone want to go see the second X-Files movie somewhere around Chicago this Friday?  I have work Friday and a class clinical on Saturday around Chicago, so I'm pretty much stuck here.  I worry it's going to be terrible but I just don't care.

Hugs to all who want them.

Katie