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Dream

3:39am CST Thursday 31 October 2002

(dream)

In a hospital, working there, I am made aware by listening in on a conversation between a doctor and nurse that the hospital will make 800 dollars per year on a patient if we are able to perform surgery on her this coming month. We'll be guaranteed $800 per year after that.. The nurse is asked to try and get that surgery 'account.'

I am asked to narrate a filmstrip on stuff at the hospital. I'm presenting the filmstrip to some of my peers, and I don't prepare for it all that well.

The first image is of a bunch of different people's faces (men and women) and all of them are labeled Rebecca.

My audience (3 people) were gossipping, so I turned the sound off on the TV to get their attention.

"I knew that would get your attention."

"Okay," I continued, "this image describes that the hospital on one level takes care of individual patients and tries caefullly to keep each individual alive.

"But on a different level, the hospital as an institution, is trying to make money, and doesn't distingush between the individual patients.

"The institution just wants the money and makes no effort to really get to know the patients.

"We don't, for eaxample, record the patients' favorite color or spouse's names exept for insurance collection purposes. We don't know their pets's name or anything that might be important to the patient. We just want to get them in and back out; we don't teach them anything about how to stay out.

"In fact, it can be argued that the Western medicine culture keeps people sick so the hospitals and drug companies can stay in business."

My friends were pretty surprised at this, but they kept watching my presentation. I flipped to the next slide and it said "mechanical" beneath a picture of a patient and I had no idea what it was supposed to be about.

So I woke up.

Josephine pep rally

8:50am CST Thursday 31 October 2002

Don't have time to write a lot, but the experience of going back to a high school pep rally was interesting. oops gotta go.

Maraiah

5:08am CST Thursday 31 October 2002

Recently Maraiah (who I've 'known' from college for 11 years) sent me a reverse survey, where we tell what we know about the other person. I don't know a lot about her really, but I wrote what I could, plus added funny stuff to fill in the blanks.

She filled out the same survey for me, and it was quite flattering. There's part of me that wants to maybe hook up with her now, but I intentionally included in my reply to her reply that I'm in love with Sally in Cali to lower the chance of Maraiah being interested in me.

I should go back to bed.

Okay.

Work

9:13am CST Thursday 31 October 2002

Pooey at work to start; no one needed help until I got to Doug who's always friendly. Helped them paint, but didn't have good direction to get started properly. Oksana showed me some stuff, but twice I got the wrong sized brush. The first time she giggled because the brush I had chosen was too small, but then when I grabbed one too big it wasn't funny anymore; I felt embarassed and had to remember that there's no reason for me to know this stuff yet; today is my first day.

Then Sergey was all politely telling me that we shouldn't start with the highlighting, which Oksana had started me with. So I went and found the correct color paint and Angelo happened to be near and showed me a tiny bit how they wanted the shading done, but then everyone went on break, so I was like "fuckit" since I thought I was doing less good than good, so I washed off the brushes and buckets and swept the floors in the woodshop area.

12:05pm

Back over at the woodshop side, slight minor tragedy when I ripped some boards (rip = cut (haha ripped = cut as well)) for William, but he didn't specify to rip the plywood and not the pine. He just said 2 5/8ths inches.

I cut one piece into 11 pieces and showed him my work to make sure it was all good. At least I didn't cut more than that.

Cut a bunch of the correct pieces, stacks and stacks.

Also good was that Jah Jah thanked me for offering to help him, and he let me help him with cutting off the top of the stairs, which had been built too tall for the frame on which they were to be attached.

12:14pm

I'm at lunch now with Janette.

12:20pm

Oh hey, we weren't at lunch; we're at the library turning in books and rechecking out The Original Uncut Stranger in a Strange Land so we can hopefully finish reading it before I embark on my western state tour.

2:40pm

Back at work and on break now. I cut my thumb a bit by trying to pry a bolt out of some wood with another bolt. Pinched a little bit of skin on my thumb and it woulda been a good blood blister except that the skin broke.

Been helping Jah Jah mess with these stairs.

7:24pm

Still at work. I got pulled off stair duty to remove the rather large decorations of a palestinian TV station that apparently got raided and all their assets (except for the set) seized under the Secret Evidence Act. The story of 80 armed agents coming in to raid the place amazes me. That's some fucked up repugnant shit.

Jah Jah, Mongu, Karaoke, Ivory, Hector, Vince, Joe are still all here at work. Still working on this big ass stage set that is supposed to be loaded in the truck starting at 8am tomorrow.

8:40pm

Done. Or rather, I'm no longer at work.

I didn't do a whole lot, but helped Baba (that means Honorable Father, which we often call Karaoke) shape the base of the crosses and noted (incorrectly) that the metal frame to hold the base was 20 inches wide and should be 16. So we planned to remove some wood flooring and add metal braces to make it the correct width. I removed the first wood flooring thing (fun because this floor is 13 feet off the ground) and started to remove the second when I realized that I oughtn't assume that all three cross supports were made incorrectly. I found a tape measure and measured the one I was working on. It was 16 inches. I found that all three were 16 inches; we had measured the wrong part of the metal to get 20 inches. So I put the floor back on and just as I was finishing, Janette got there to pick me up.

And I got these pictures of Jah Jah. I mean Jesus.

halloween

8:48pm CST Thursday 31 October 2002

Okay, I've got on Janette's bathrobe and an apron. Ready or not here we come!

10:27pm

Heehee! Went to a few houses. Most had no candy left. One had candy both times that we visited. The second time we visited, she gave me candy and a Coors Lite. Beer. No kidding. Even after I said, "nah, no thanks," when she offered.

movies

10:29pm CST Thursday 31 October 2002

Jack didn't drive, but went with me as we visited the video store just before the closed. I sped a bit and didn't have a wreck with a car that cut the corner that I was hoping to cut at the same time.

I'm impresed with the cat in the video store who was able to identify the name of the movie with a cover image that shows the back of a girl walking into a party while she's holding a knife behind her, and her hair is braided into a loop/noose shape: April Fool's Day, which we are watching now.

12:00am CST Friday 1 November 2002

Just finished the movie. It's pretty spooky and cheesey and spooky all at once. Eeeek. I promised Janette never to April Fool's her to that extreme. Jack got a phone call during the movie and missed most of it.