I'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in the Pacific NW USA with my husband and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.
Archive for October, 2004
The Eclair
When I was pregnant with my firstborn son many, many years ago, I once craved a chocolate eclair. Cravings while pregnant can not, by any stretch of the imagination, be compared to non-pregnant cravings. Pregnant cravings are Kodachrome cravings; high-resolution, perfectly lit, color-balanced works of epicurean art, radiating the barest hints of tantalizingly delectable aromas [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2004 under My Life.
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A Wee Wonko Story
Many, many moons ago when Wonko was an innocent babe… No, wait — THAT wasn’t Wonko… At any rate, a long time ago when Wonko (a.k.a. Ryan) was much smaller than he is now (and his brain wasn’t fully developed), the kids and I were in our somewhat elderly Oldsmobile one day on our way [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2004 under My Life.
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Orgone Energy Distraction
A couple of weeks ago my psych prof Dr. Carlson mentioned, as sort of a brief post-script at the end of our section on Sigmund Freud, a guy named Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Reich was a Freudian analyst who thought that there should be a way to detect the libido energy that Freud theorized powered the [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2004 under Eccentricities, Parallel Universes.
Comments: 5
Can You Do This?
Walking toward Starbuck’s for a caffeine break between classes one day, I encountered Steven for the first time. He was seated at an outside table next to the entrance, and with the natural openness of the developmentally disabled, he looked directly at me as I approached. I smiled at him as I reached for the [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2004 under Parallel Universes.
Comments: 4
More on Alien Abductions
I received the following message from Mike Menkin today. He thanked me for posting his website (stopabductions.com) and offered some additional websites and information for me to share with you. The photograph he mentions is definitely worth a look! Subject: thought screen helmet Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:06:42 -0700 From: Mike Menkin Organization: Lasentec [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2004 under Eccentricities, Parallel Universes.
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Valuable Information for my Family and Friends
Midterms are looming, so I’m going to resort to entertaining my blog fans (yes, both of you!) with reruns for a few days, until I have time to think again. (I’m doing a lot of thinking, actually, but unless you enjoy reading about stoichiometry and redox reactions and limiting reactants and such, I’m pretty sure [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2004 under Eccentricities, Parallel Universes.
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Wandering Body Parts, Revisited
Felicity’s comment on my Wandering Wombs story reminded me of this family funny… Last year Jeff and I went on the Atkins diet to shed a few extra pounds, and as a result Jeff got into the habit of munching on mixed nuts while watching TV. He buys them from the bulk foods section, so [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2004 under My Life.
Comments: 13