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[19 Aug 2011|07:48pm] |
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I have taken to pacing. I have been working a lot of over-time recently, one of my employer's other nurses has taken ill so I am filling in for her, and to avoid getting bored and sluggish I just sort of walk around. It doesn't feel very healthy, mentally, to be the sort that just walks around, but there isn't much else to do once Hendrix falls asleep. Though he is normally awake during the hours that count as overtime. It is something of a challenge to find things to occupy his time here now that he isn't just asleep. This isn't our house so we can't exactly explore much. I have been bringing more and more of Hendrix's things over, that, frankly it is beginning to look like our house.
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[11 Aug 2011|02:26pm] |
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The sitter is quite happy to have Hendrix for tomorrow afternoon so I can attend a matinee showing of Cowboys and Aliens. I can never remember if it should be an ampersand or not. It will be the first time I've been away from Hendrix for more than an hour in some time, a longer time than I realized in fact, so it is probably a good idea. It is important for him to have interaction with reliable others while I am not around so I can gauge how well he performs socially on his own. Admittedly, it is also a good idea for me to gauge how well I perform socially on my own. I have heard that there are people who hide behind their children socially, and that isn't healthy for them or the child.
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[01 Aug 2011|07:12pm] |
I realize it was only two weeks but it feels strange to not have Jude here anymore once again. And since my employer was kind enough not to die while I was on vacation I return to work tonight. Everything seems to be returning to the way it was, which was only to be expected.
Does anyone have any reading suggestions? Keeping in mind my recent appreciation for detective stories.
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[14 Jul 2011|12:35pm] |
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I am happy to announce that between the 18th and 31st of July I will have an extra pair of hands to help around the house. My brother Jude has two weeks leave and is coming home. I have been calling his room a guest room but since I've never had a guest in it there isn't much I have to do before his arrival. It has been a little over a year since he last came home so I am excited and eager to show off how Hendrix has grown. It'll be good for Hendrix to see his uncle anyway, to remember I'm not his only family in this world.
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[08 Jul 2011|06:33pm] |
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I admit it was entirely my fault for not thinking ahead when I bought the car that leather seats could one day be a problem. It was affordable and served its purpose, I didn't quibble over things like what the seats were made of or if I could adjust the rear view mirrors from inside the car. It is summer now and I have learned why leather seats belong in the S&M dungeon in which they were born and not in a car. I understand that as being a mistake of mine. What I don't understand is why it is impossible to find a seat cover that isn't furry or an animal print. Surely not all car seat cover buyers are teenage girls or recent divorcees looking to express their new freedom through seat covers.
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[27 Jun 2011|10:44pm] |
I have begun reading 20th century detective novels. My primary job involves a lot of waiting, so I have taken to the sleuthing genre. I have decided to avoid any of those which are overtly riding the Anti- or Pro- Communist waves of the time and instead settled quite nicely into a series about a very large man who enjoys flowers and fine food. He also has an extensive vocabulary which I find most appealing. I have been offered the use of a television to pass the time but such a thing would wake the baby Hendrix, and I find modern television a paradise for puerility anyway.
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[19 Aug 2010|08:21pm] |
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Am I hard to shop for?
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[11 Aug 2010|10:32pm] |
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Happy Birthday, Sarah James.
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[07 Aug 2010|10:54pm] |
[Private to Rachel Takeda]
Hello. I am sure you are aware that Sarah's birthday is approaching. I was curious if you had any plans in action for it yet, or if she expressed to you what she might like to do.
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[04 Aug 2010|03:59pm] |
I believe Hendrix is acclimating to potty training rather well. Not that I am surprised by that. I have found a blog that a woman wrote during potty training of her son, and I must say I have found it most helpful. I have also spoken to some parents, and I feel very secure that Hendrix is doing well for being at this stage of things. He should be out of diapers within the year.
And I would be lying if I said that wasn't rather frightening.
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[27 Jul 2010|03:07pm] |
Congratulations, Gotham, we are in a time loop.
I should mention that if said time loop encompasses a one month span, it includes Hendrix's birthday. He looks forward to getting your gifts again.
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[24 Jul 2010|12:55am] |
I keep thinking, these days, about a poem I once heard. It is very simple, only four lines, and went like this:
Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl.
If the bowl had been stronger
My tale would have been longer.
I learned later that a Gotham in merry old England had become known for being filled with rather simple and foolish people, but if the origin is to be believed, they were actually quite smart. The story is that the people of Gotham learned that King John had a mind to move into the neighborhood. Knowing the cost of supporting him for leave them in ruin, they organized a plan to keep him out. Every time a messenger of his came to the town, the wise men of Gotham began to do foolish things, leading the messenger to relay their actions to the King. The King ultimately decided to live elsewhere, not wishing to have such foolish company.
I keep thinking of this lately, though I am not sure why.
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[22 Jul 2010|07:21pm] |
I believe even Hendrix's daycare has heightened their security. And due to recent circumstances I have decided not to go into very public places, so Hendrix's first swimming pool experience has been moved to a kiddie pool in my apartment. It is not glamorous, but I am certain it is not filled with anthrax.
If anything should happen at the hospital
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[15 Jul 2010|07:25pm] |
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I would feel better about returning to the fair if someone told me the cause of those deaths, and what has been done to stop it from happening again. The fair has lost people's trust, and isn't going to gain it back with celebrity and pretty things.
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[06 Jul 2010|12:42am] |
Well, I am certainly glad I didn't have to work at the hospital last night. Though today there were still a number of burn patients to deal with. I read a quote once that said something like, "You are a nurse if you think 'too stupid to live' ought to be a diagnosis." I don't quite agree with it, but I do think of that quote every holiday. The Fourth of July and Halloween in particular... And St. Patrick's Day. No one wants to celebrate in an emergency room, and yet so many people end up there.
I am glad though that I didn't see anyone I knew there. I hope you all stayed safe and not on fire.
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[28 Jun 2010|09:53pm] |
I would like to thank everyone who participated in Hendrix's second birthday yesterday. I appreciated all of the support and good feelings for him. He spent much of yesterday in a choco-coma, but I am glad to say he has come out of it and is beginning to appreciate his gifts as he discovers them. It still takes him some time to understand the scope of things that are new and for him to play with, so I apologize if he did not seem as excited as you would have liked when the gift was open. I assure you, he is appreciating them now.
That aside. I have apparently forgotten much of what life was before him. I assume it was boring and much less fulfilling. And cleaner and smelled better.
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[23 Jun 2010|09:13pm] |
There are many faults in the logic behind the idea that The Joker should be released. Most of these faults have been pointed out more eloquently than I will attempt to do here. But there is one fault I feel ought to be mentioned that I have not seen, one that these Joker supporters ought to keep in mind when determining where it is they want him to be.
If the Joker is released, I ask the question, how long do you suppose he will stay alive out in the world?
Gotham is not the same Gotham he last saw, in a city where there was just one person in a mask, there are now many, and they have behind them the good sense and support of a city who have had all this time to think. I suggest, to those wishing for the Joker's release, to consider not just the city's safety, but his, and leave him in a place where the angry mob cannot reach him. Because if he were to leave the confines he presently enjoys, the angry mob would come, and they would find him.
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