Monthly Archives: November 2004
Giving Thanks
Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, I have mixed feelings. Not about the giving thanks part. It’s just that I’m something of a procrastinator, a very BAD planner, and a lousy housekeeper. And I have ankle issues. Talo-calcaneal coalition, for those of you who like big words. In little words, it just means my feet hurt a lot, especially when I stand on them all day in the kitchen. Or anyplace else, for that matter. On Monday, my friend Judy asked me what we were doing for Thanksgiving. “Sheesh,” I told … Continue reading
Modernized Prejudice
I’m taking an anthropology course this term, called Intercultural Communication. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it’s turned out to be really interesting. I thought, having grown up in Japan and living in as many places as I have, that I was pretty culturally aware. But, as usual, there’s always more to learn. This is something I wrote for my class, about a questionnaire that was supposed to tell us how biased we are against homosexuals. At the end, the authors had listed the score rankings in terms of … Continue reading
Just When You Thought You Were Finally Safe…
Another rerun… sorry, nursing school is HARD!!! I’ll write something fresh just as soon as I can spare a few brain cells, I promise. Meanwhile… This essay was written as a followup to the essay Valuable Information for my Family and Friends, concerning how to protect yourself from alien abductions. Enjoy. Darn. It turns out that the thought screen helmet isn’t going to be enough, folks — sorry about that. Not only do we have to worry about aliens invading our brains, but apparently there’s also the more local problem … Continue reading
We Interrupt This Program…
In case you have been wondering where ToastyFrog has been for the past couple of days, we were victimized by Verizon and friends. Again. Greystork, who generously hosts my blog because my webserver is too ancient to properly handle it and I’m too busy studying to learn to use Apache so I can build myself a new one, is switching his DSL service from Verizon to SpeakEasy. Neither of whom, apparently, can read a calendar. First, Verizon disconnected his service a day early. So he waited patiently (which, to tell … Continue reading