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    Archive for 'Indignancies'

    Parking Ticket

    Circuit Court for Multnomah County Parking Tag Office
    PO Box 78
    Portland, OR 97207-0178
    Re: Parking Violation #HA00696951
    On October 5, 2006, I returned to my car after an evening class to find I had been issued a parking citation for 90% blocking the crosswalk on NW Overton Street at 23rd Avenue.
    Since there are no crosswalk lines painted on [...]

    I Work for *Legacy*…

    And from the “What the #$%#*& were they THINKING?” department (which might more aptly be named the “Why the @#$%%$^ weren’t they THINKING?” department), we bring you this breaking news from Portland, OR…
    Providence Health Systems apparently thought that having various managers carry copies of electronic patient data around with them was a better idea than [...]

    Ruth Joins the Prose Police

    To celebrate having survived finals week, I am taking the entire day off and doing absolutely NOTHING productive. Okay, other than taking the two dogs and three cats to the vet to have their badly out-of-date shots updated. And throwing the occasional log on the fire so I don’t freeze… and going to work [...]

    Professional Role of a Nurse, and Ruth’s Special School for Insensitive Caregivers

    My first year of nursing school is nearly at an end; finals week is all that’s left. My final assignment in one course was to write a self-evaluation that included a section on my concept of the professional role of a nurse, and the values of accountability, responsibility, and professionalism.
    The day before I wrote my [...]

    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 [...]