lunch

lunch today:

















lunch yesterday:

birthday, etc

there will hopefully be pictures eventually to post, if i can finnagle (sp?) them out of bon's camera. the depends party was a smashing success, everyone attended and good sports were to be found around every corner.

i must divulge an embarrassing fact- which i only feel comfortable doing here due to the utterly private nature of the blogosphere- which is that i had a small absorbency problem early in the night, and a rather large absorbency problem later on in the night. and i was the only person to have this kind of problem. and those were the only two times i successfully peed into the correct side of the diaper. and that is all i will say about that.

here is a picture of a diaper that looks pretty similar to what we wore:















and here is a picture of an adult in a diaper:










but the reason i felt like posting just now was really that i was doing some more of this data entry from surveys of nicaraguan elders that i've been doing, which are all very depressing, and someone had written "desuelo" under "do you have any other problems you would like to report?"

and i looked it up, and the literal translation of "desuelo" is:
"i desolate."

and when those words popped up in the google translator, it was sad in a way i can't explain.

i'm sad

8:00am
that i seem to do best on about 10 hours of sleep, like mercedes. which would involve going to bed every night before 10 pm, ha!



















7:00pm
i was looking at this website that shows places with wireless in portland, and allows you to make comments. one person said the following about mojo's coffee den:

Wow! Great Coffee!Posted by isabella r. at 16: 0PM -0 5-, 2005

I LOVE Mojo's coffee, me it remembers to the coffee at the cafe in hometown of mine San Gimignano in Italy (South from Florence). Such charming conversation the older man has behind the counter. My computer running so fast with internet. I have now not had opportunity to attend poetry but I like to soon. In my country we also hate your president George Bush, Mojos is just like my home.

a hoot.

found a funny joke online:

A nun goes to the doctor with an attack of hipo that already lasts a month to him.
- Doctor, I have been having an attack of hipo, for a month, that does not let to me live. I do not sleep, not like, already hurts the body to me of as much involuntary compulsive movement.
- Tiéndase in the stretcher, sister, who I am going to examine says it the doctor.

It examines it and it says to him:
- Sister, you this pregnant woman!

The nun rises and leaves running the consultation with panic face. One hour later the doctor receives a call of the superiora mother of the convent:
- Doctor, what has said You to him to the sister Maria?
- Superiora mother Will see, as she had a fort attacks of hipo, I gave a scare him so that she took off to him and I suppose that will have taken off to him, no? , the doctor says.
- Yes, to the sister Maria hipo has taken off him, but the father Juan has thrown itself of the bell tower.

hoot! hoot! that's a hoot.

actually, wait, i was putting it up because it's a google "translate this page" creation and it sounds funny. of course my favorite part is, "Sister, you this pregnant woman!"
but i just got the joke. ha.
also, i just lost the game. and if you read this later you lose too. oh. except you eastcoasters don't know about the game? or do you? can't quite remember. let me know, i'll clue you in if you don't and you'll be so.... grateful.

oh god no

aerry is a very nice woman at work whose boyfriend is in a very, very bad band.

they are called 'unpopular club.'

their highlighted song is 'justin case'

and their album cover looks like this:










and aerry sent me their music because i told her i was in a band, and she said, "tell me what you think!"

what to say? what to say?

"i hate them."

"the fall"

so this looks similar to my x-ray, except that in mine the broken off part is more underneath the main part. also the main part is longer and the broken off part shorter.






this is a baby that broke his/her clavicle too!













this is someone's drawing of my broken clavicle.

and this is someone's drawing of my shoulder separation (my theory is that my shoulder has "unseparated" now because the pain lessened so much, so dramatically, and also because my shoulder stopped looking so grossly sunken.)


this is the weirdest of all. i didn't see anyone around at the time (not surprising, since i was flying through the air at break-clavicle speed) but someone was there and they got a picture of my fall.

news from clackamas

8: 30 am. poppy, who is suddenly very nice to me, sent me and four other ladies (cruelly omitting stacy, who is still her enemy) this link

1:15 pm. incredibly irritable. no particular cause detected. i wish there were people around so i could snap at them. no, not really.

1:17 pm. i just realized i'm premenstrual. hilarious. feeling relieved.








1:22 pm. image searched "premenstrual" on google and i was going to post the first image that came up, but it was kind of alarming (as were several others). so i chose this one:



















3:10 pm. poppy sent another email to me and some ladies with the following image plus about 25 more. i was going to upload several but it takes a million years, and you know... i'm at work. i don't do that kind of thing.










at the end of the email, confusingly, poppy wrote:

AND REMEMBER:

Good friends are like stars.
You don't always see them, but you always know they are there.

that's true.

problem.

so if you google my "first middle last name blog," which i will not actually write out here due to fear that it will further increase my googleability, it comes up with my blog as the second item. which won't do, since if someone snoopy (P, or P for example) googled it i would probably die (get fired).
so i've changed my name (herpes) in both "real name" and "display name" but i'm still so googleable! mercedes! help me! i can't find "first middle last" anywhere on my whole blog, profile or settings.
surely something can be done.
i am this worried:

1.




2.

U.S. School Kids Donate More to Katrina Relief Than Most Big Corporations

August 23, 2006 3:35 PM

School children across the United States have raised more money for Katrina relief efforts than many major U.S. corporations, according to a non-profit group, RandomKid, which has tracked donations by children.

Over $10 million was raised by school kids through bake sales, lemonade stands, car washes and other fundraisers, according to RandomKid. That's more than almost every major U.S. corporation gave. More than wealthy oil and petrochemical companies, such as Chevron and ConocoPhillips. It's more than what AT&T and Verizon gave combined. And it's more than major brand name corporations like GE and Coca-Cola gave.

Only five U.S. corporations gave more than what was raised by the school kids, according to recently released report by the Foundation Center, a non-profit organization that has tracked Katrina relief donations.

friends and enemies

pretty miserable day at work.

cruel, cruel world.

but there is a shiny lining on next week's doomcloud- though al franken will terrifyingly be taking the week off, he will be replaced M-W by Tom Oliphant rather than Sam "Sucky" Seder. and Tom Oliphant is a hilarious dorky guy who looks like this:



he also has a pretty funny laugh, though i can't figure out how i would go about splicing his laugh out of a downloaded al franken show so that you could here it. pretty sure i couldn't.

oh, who am i kidding? as if you care!

here's a song to make up for it.

i would just like to add

that i'm reading this paper by a colleague (with a PhD) of keren's about how great this guy dick ladd was. mr ladd apparently "ushered in the Big Bang theory of Long Term Care" by advocating the belief that "institutions should not be the center of the Long Term Care Universe."

one of the great things mentioned about dick ladd is:

"Dick had great respect for research and for statistical analysis, but not if it kept him from reaching the conclusions he believed in."

that seems, to me, to be bad.

here is a picture of dick ladd:

ay nicaragua, nicaraguita.

Traveler and cost summary

Megan Wilson
Adult
Add Frequent Flyer number(s)
$709.00

Taxes & Fees
$93.00

Booking Fee
$5.00

Total (Visa)
$807.00

Tue 12-Sep-06

Portland (PDX)
Depart 6:15 am
to
Houston (IAH)
Arrive 12:15 pm
Terminal C
1,833 mi
(2,950 km)
Duration: 4hr 0mn

CO Continental
Flight: 308

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3Economy/Coach Class, Snack, Boeing 737-800, 90% on time

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Houston (IAH)
Depart 4:05 pm
Terminal E
to
Managua (MGA)
Arrive 7:31 pm
1,356 mi
(2,182 km)
Duration: 3hr 26mn

CO Continental
Flight: 1774

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3Economy/Coach Class, Dinner, Boeing 737-800

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Total distance: 3,189 mi (5,132 km)
Total duration: 7hr 26mn (11hr 16mn with connections)

Sun 17-Sep-06

Managua (MGA)
Depart 8:00 am
to
Houston (IAH)
Arrive 11:19 am
Terminal E
1,356 mi
(2,182 km)
Duration: 3hr 19mn

CO Continental
Flight: 1775

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3Economy/Coach Class, Breakfast, Boeing 737-800

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Houston (IAH)
Depart 2:50 pm
Terminal C
to
Portland (PDX)
Arrive 5:19 pm
1,833 mi
(2,950 km)
Duration: 4hr 29mn

CO Continental
Flight: 1065

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3Economy/Coach Class, Snack, Boeing 737-300, 70% on time

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Total distance: 3,189 mi (5,132 km)
Total duration: 7hr 48mn (11hr 19mn with connections)


so. that's cool.

here are some pictures of managua, nicaragua:

and here...

...is this crazy website i found.

awesome.

micha is effectively blogging via comments. which i think is just totally fine.

here is another excerpt from stacy's latest activities newsletter:

"Its that time again, cold and flew season. This months website has a study indicating by taking ginseng supplements throughout the winter appears to prevent colds, reduce symptoms for colds and flews."

[sic].

sheila will be moving in this coming weekend. max is still in town and leaves tomorrow. also, tara's whole family has been in town and they are leaving today. evan was kind of rude at first but got nicer toward the end. i've moved upstairs and it is all very different up there now. i like it! maybe i will take pictures with max's camera and post them on max's computer before he goes. i'm at work and my boss isn't here and still hasn't gotten back to me about a billion projects, so... well, i do have work to do, of course. but not that much.

here is a picture of al franken:







and here is a battletoads song

open the doors, but where are my people?

i was going to name myself "Herpes de l'Amour," and i may yet still. i ate 15 fresh green beans, drank 2 sodas, ate a veggie dog and curly fries, drank some coffee and a latte, drank 12 ounces of water, drank a carnation instant breakfast, ate a plum, and ate a tiger's milk bar, not at all in that order.