so, dj adam jay is spinning next weekend at tribe vibe 2k2, sponsored by nuvo newsweekly - also spinning will be DJ Lars (the german guy from the Real World London) but i'm more excited about seeing dj adam jay, personally....he's so cool!

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oh, okay, tom delonge is from blink 182...whoo hoo, big celebrity!

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(and can anyone tell me - who the fuck's tom delonge?!? *8-)

ya know, it's REALLY weird to look at my blog stats and see what's bringing people to my blog...lots of google searches for weird things...i mentioned dialysis and gary coleman in the same post at some point, and someone was looking for that...i get tons of hits from people looking for that damned cliche kitty, and quite a few from people looking for stuff by heywood banks...so, welcome to anyone that's just happened upon my blog - i'm the pillsbury dough dyke!

so, i'm looking around on amazon.com and see that they want me to sell some of the stuff i've bought from them! books, videos, cd's dvd's...8 items i've bought are still in their stock and so they want to offer up my used stuff to their customers...

the page says "Lori Beth, Make $155.28! Look! Selling your past purchases could earn you $155.28" - so i add up the value of the stuff using the current prices on amazon (i know they've lowered the prices on some of this stuff since i bought it) and it totals up to $221.83.

er, thanks but no thanks, amazon...i suppose that could be cool if ya buy something that really sucks, but i tend to know what i'm buying before i buy it online...

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

getting ready: family gathering tonight - my cousin Joanie's daughter Ashley is turning 16 - 16!!!! doesn't seem possible, the sweet little girl i used to babysit, a 16 year old! woah!!!

time to go!

*ROFL* what a cool site! the Random Title and Name Generator will give you a title if you don't have one or don't like the one you do have...

a few of my new titles...

Princess of Poon Appreciation, Lori Beth - and i DO appreciate the poon! *8-)

Duchess of Deviant Sexual Practices, Lori Gozer Beth - er, i think i'll refrain from comment here....

Baroness of Cow Tipping, Miss Lori Beth - moo

Kahuna of The Meritorious Order of Wieners, Lori Irene Beth - not just any ol' weiner, a meritorious one!

Lesser Sorceress of Speed Bumps, Lori "Lefty" Beth - hrm, i like "Lefty"

Associate Speaker of No Pants, Mrs. Lori Beth - how appropriate, since most of the time i'm running around in my boxer shorts...

Superintendent of Cornfed Heifers, Mrs. Lori Beth - appropriate, being a Hoosier and all....

Funkmistress of Stating The Obvious, Lori Fusion Beth - yeah, i'm a Funkmistress!

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

kazaaing: got that damned kylie minogue song in my head...how ironic, it's called "can't get you out of my head"...pretty catchy tune...urgh, i have gigabytes of mp3 files on mom's computer, i supposed i should start zipping the shit up and burning it to disc...

pondering: time to make the trip to the grocery....i know i was thinking of very important stuff i needed to get, now i'm drawing a total blank...*shrug*

freaking: so, i went in to work tonight cuz we had a bunch of people call in this week (the distinct disadvantage to getting a flu shot is that when everyone else is sick, you aren't and get to do all the freakin' work) and we were sooooo behind, blah blah blah...so it feels like a wednesday night, but it's really thursday night (er, technically friday morning, i guess)...the good part to this is that i'll be getting sunday night off work...next week's a 3 day work week!! *8-) still confused as all hell though....just point me in the right direction, thanks...

a day of ups and downs...good stuff goin on, but i have a BITCH of a headache...

started off by getting a nice little pat on the back from my boss this morning, when she saw the amazing amount of ass i kicked workwise overnight...it's nice to be appreciated every once in a while...

then i went home and slept and woke up to a couple of messages - the neurologist FINALLY seems to have seen my side of things and they're gonna schedule my eeg at st v's, and i don't think i'll even have to switch doctors...lemme just cross my fingers that they don't schedule it during a week someone else's already claimed for vacation...

then there was a message from doc english's office, i'd called her to get the results of my dilantin level, done a couple of weeks ago...talked to elke, the nurse, and she said the level's a little low ~ 8.3 when it should be 10 to 20 ~ and the doc's upping my dosage of dilantin...

check my email and find a "big honkin *SMOOCH*" from Shavon - i'd given her a few tips on how to sell stuff on ebay and they seem to have worked! like i said, it's nice to be appreciated every once in a while...*8-)

my tax refund was deposited in the bank today - whoo hoo! not too bad, i called telefile late saturday night, feb 16, and the money was in my account by wednesday, feb 27...now i can commence paying bills...whoo hoooo!

okay, enough fun at work, time to get outta here!!!

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errrr...spunky & feminine? i think i'll have to retake the test after i see a few episodes of the show - i had to make a few guesses....

hrm, guess i really am a honky! ;-)


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work sucks. nothing particularly horrendous about it, it just seems that everyone's in a shitty mood and nobody wants to be here - makes it rather difficult to keep a positive attitude...*shrug*

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dale & greg are both sick, so no mah jongg tonight. *8-( amazing what creatures of habit we are - i really look forward to hanging out with them on saturday nights.

so instead, i'm sitting here googlewhacking - i've come up with three in just a few minutes...

epiglottis marinade
sphygmomanometric poem
spongiform fettuccini

yes, it's true - i was the sort of dork that sat around and read the dictionary as a kid, too....*8-)

hrm - my pagan name, as given to me by the Pagan Name Generator, is Myst Song Bear - not bad.... *8-)

See which Greek Goddess you are.

i've signed up with blogsnob, so i can get a look at others blogs and vice versa - seen some interesting stuff thus far - check it out!

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wow! a website to create a fart!

What Pattern Are You?

cool!!!

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Q. What is blue and doesn't fit any more?
A. A dead epileptic.

*rofl* 'tis amazing what you can find whilst googlewhacking...

breaktime at work...perhaps i'll suck on a nipple...

*8-) okay, it's not a REAL nipple - i got a valentine's package from clara, and in package was a tin of "pert peppermint nipples" and "extra naughty peppermint peckers" - definitely a hit here at work! *8-) i suppose this would be a sexual harrassment suit waiting to happen at any other place of employment, but everybody here was excited and ready to try 'em. *8-)

well well well - it's been an eventful week.

too bad i don't remember most of it.

had a seizure tuesday, before i was supposed to go to work. when i didn't show up, kim called. apparently i'd told her i had a seizure or was having a seizure, she called melissa & clare and they called an ambulance. i didn't know how to open the door, so they broke one of the panes of glass to get in to me. (this is all what i've been told after the fact, i don't remember the slightest bit of it) i spent tuesday, wednesday and part of thursday in the hospital and now i'm staying with mom for the weekend. had to cancel my date with tonya on friday - major bummer. what's really scary is that i don't remember the beginning of the seizure or anything on tuesday - when i woke up in the hospital on wednesday i thought i missed a whole week at work! it was only two days though. i'm still not back to "normal" - dr. mohan switched me to dilantin, and i don't know if that's causing side effects or if it's just from the seizure being so bad.

i really need to get this shit taken care of.

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

working: alrighty, not RIGHT NOW...taking a break...

and of course now my mind has gone completely blank....urgh...lalalalalalalala!

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

pissing and moaning: argh, why oh why does tripod have to suck so much? damn, guess my cheap ass is going to have to actually PAY for a web site...trying to get the pic from friday night's date inserted in here and no matter which way i go about it, i get the stupid little tripod logo...the HTML fairy needs to drop by and help me out...for now, you'll just have to go to see the pic yerself - the photo is at http://lbthepdd.tripod.com/loripix/loritonya.jpg

pondering: looking around me, at the people in my life and my relationships with them...thinking about how some relationships will be changing in the coming days and weeks...i know i'm being vague right now ~ more to be revealed later...

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

kazaaing: Sarah McLachlan Remixed - hmmm, a canadian import...if it's good enough, i may just have to buy the damn thing...

plotting: okay, just how much stuff do i have to get done before i go on the big date tomorrow night? eeeek! finish cleaning house, clean out the car, blah blah blah....suppose that means it's time to get off the computer!!!

in cleaning out my emailbox, i've found a few links to check out later...

long ago, donna sent me a link to the entire script of that classic movie, Airplane! - have you ever seen a grown man naked?

the lyrics to laid, one of my favorite albums, by james...

tom & ray of car talk have a site at cars.com, and caroscopes, to tell you how compatible you are with your vehicle...apparently, i'm not really a toyota tercel sort of girl...

cliche kitty, the one that appears in all the photoshops on fark...

queer as folk: season 1, episode 18: watching this again on dvd, i realized i really liked the music this episode...so i'll hafta kazaa it sometime..."Horny" by Mousse T vs Hot N Juicy is stuck in my head right now...

satirewire.com

Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars (AKA "Chucks") web resources & jack's shoes & this site - hrm, those chucks with the flames are callin my name!!! low or high tops? hrmm...

music from tv commercials at songtitle.info...

illustrator resources - maybe i can learn something new to use at work...

eh, i guess those are the only links for now...'tis amazing how much crap i leave in my mailbox to look at later and then don't really need...

currently, lori is:

surfing: the hollywood bar & filmworks website - checking out the menu...have a date tomorrow night! we're going to see the wizard of oz - how cool is that?

kazaaing: i'm on a melissa etheridge kick right now...good thing i didn't believe donna when she told me kazaa was down!

cleaning: right now, i'm cleaning out the ol' email box...when my laundry's done, i'm heading home to clean the apartment...

pretty sad when you can get more information by trolling the net than you can by asking your doctor's office a few simple questions.

think it might be time to change neurologists - i don't feel comfortable with Community Hospital and having them responsible for giving me a video EEG to see if i'm a candidate for brain surgery when they've called me twice to cancel my tests because their equipment wasn't working. who's to say that the stuff will work when they DO get me in there for 3 days...and how can i possibly trust that the results they get will be worth anything? we won't even factor in the crappy care i got at the emergency room when my gall bladder screamed to be removed...what i know for sure is that i won't ever ask to be taken to community hospital in an emergency - i'll go to st. francis instead.

dr. mohan's been the first neurologist to ever even suggest the possibility of brain surgery, so i know i'm gonna need a second opinion anyways...perhaps i'll talk to dr. english and get her opinion on a good neurologist associated with a hospital other than community.

IUPUI - i saw dr. salanova years ago...perhaps i'll return to her...*shrug*

the st. vincent website had a description of the video eeg, which was more than i could ever get out of the people at JWM Neurology...

*sigh*

cool...tom tomorrow's taken to blogging...

current workplace conversation topic: whorehouses, and whether or not you have to make an appointment...

how the hell did that one come about? well, we were talking about robin's unlisted phone number getting wrong numbers and neal chimes in with how his phone number as a kid was one digit off from a whorehouse - why the hell does a whorehouse need a phone?!? was my question...thus the question about making reservations...

yeah, pretty scary, but i seem to be one of the more normal people around here....

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

surfing: the onion and modern humorist....in the midst of this hellacious week, i need a good laugh...

yawning: why i woke up at 2:30 today, i have no clue!

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

drying: ahh, just got out of a nice hot shower with some decent water pressure! been having difficulties with the hot water lately....not today tho!

reading: started on A Girl Named Zippy : Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel this morning...this chick went to the school of religion at earlham...you know she's from a small town when she calls muncie a big big city...as for the michael thomas ford books (That's Mister Faggot To You and It's Not Mean If It's True) - didn't even finish them...he's certainly no david sedaris...

amazing drive in to work this evening...cruising 465 as the sun was setting...the sky was all sorts of colors - face a different direction, see colors you didn't see before...it was hard to keep my eyes on the road, a huge chunk of sky was magenta and it set a tint over everything ahead of me....for a few minutes, at least...

now it's all dark - cuz i've moved into the hellhole that is my job. urgh. off to work i go!!

hrmmm, perhaps i should set up one of those amazon tip jars here in my blog to collect money for the video eeg and potential brain surgery....

the book _Nickel and Dimed_ i just finished reading brought up an interesting point - on page 207, it states, "The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 makes it illegal to punish people for revealing their wages to one another, but the practice is likely to persist until rooted out by lawsuits, company by company." it also includes a footnote referencing a 7/28/00 article from the New York Times, "The Biggest Company Secret; Workers Challenge Employer Policies on Pay Confidentiality".

i mention this because we've been told before at work that discussing what we make with our co-workers is grounds for immediate dismissal. this policy seems to be counter to the law....

i've got a bunch of stuff i've been meaning to put up on ebay - assorted bargains and shit i picked up after xmas...kroger had those tech deck mini skateboards - before xmas they were $3.99. i got them afterwards for $.10 each...i did some research on the tech deck website and found the things listed there for $6.99! so, i've got about a dozen or so, maybe i'll put 'em up in lots of 3 or 4 and see what i get....got lots of other shit i'll have to put on ebay in october/november, before xmas - bumbles, the abominable snowman from rudolph the red nosed reindeer, as a bobblehead...sold for $10 - paid $2 for 'em...i have entirely too much stuff - but it's so damned easy to see something on sale and say "hey, lemme throw that in a box and in a few years sell it for ten times what i paid"...i am such the pack-rat.

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

surfing: the trading spaces website...what a cool show...

baking: apple-cinnamon-raisin muffins - gotta get rid of the huge stash of pillsbury products i've purchased recently...

watching: listening, really...the late night rerun of dateline nbc is on

cleaning: the dishes are soaking in the sink, and i'm getting ready to take the trash out...

so i'm thinking of coming up with some sort of Lori Index - a list of what i'm currently (or very recently) doing/reading/watching/surfing/eating/buying/whatever....it can certainly tell ya what sort of mood i'm in if i've got the really depressing shit in the CD player or whatever...

so here goes for now - what i've been currently doing...categories are subject to change at any given millisecond...

CURRENTLY, LORI IS:

kazaa'ing: _This Way_ - Jewel - urgh, that "standing still" song is trapped in my head - get it out!!!

reading: just finishing up _Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America_ by Barbara Ehrenreich...next on the list of books i've recently gotten from the library: _That's Mr. Faggot to You : Further Trials from My Queer Life_ by Michael Thomas Ford

eating: some mahjongg leftovers - one of our usual dinners - KFC!

surfing: popshop.com - getting ideas for stuff to download from kazaa...

listening: Jewel & Melissa Etheridge doing "You Can Sleep While I Drive", freshly ripped from kazaa....

hrmm...that pretty much sums up what i'm doing at the moment...

'nother night at the computer, kazaa-ing away...found another website, popshop.com, that horribly overcharges for cd's of stuff that can easily be gotten from kazaa for free, of songs i just absolutely loved back in the day and now have completely forgotten about...so i'm infringing on a number of copyrights...but wait, i owned those songs years and years ago, so this is just making my perfectly legal backup copy, right? right? *wink wink*

just woke up from a STRANGE dream...i had a baby, and i was in pittsburgh...a very little, just barely born baby...the thing fit in my hand...and here i was in charge of it and was completely clueless as to what to do...*shrug* i think the pittsburgh thing comes from my watching the whole first season of queer as folk over the past couple of weeks...but the baby thing? no idea...

games night went well tonight - it was kind of weird without christine...angela's taking over, but she couldn't make it tonight so i was in charge - eeek!...started off kind of slow, but then more people arrived - i'd consider it a success...played euchre and catchphrase (the electronic version i bought is pretty cool!) and renee brought some card game i'd never seen before, illuminati...apparently i won, but i'm still not sure how...i suspect it's much like mah jongg - takes ya a long time to learn all the intricacies and such, but once ya do, it's addictive...

so i guess i won't miss out on the suckage that is work next week - doc's office called, they've got to reschedule my video eeg. had to cancel it again because the equipment's broken. they sure as fuck aren't instilling a lot of confidence in me here...

work: ugh. so we found out that they screwed up in telling us what our raises were. so i go from being not too disappointed to just irritated as shit. can't trust a thing they say these days, whether it be the insurance stuff or raises or whatever....they're getting really good at taking what little office morale was left and putting it right into the crapper....

"You are smart, but you're not right in the head." - yup, there's the evaluation of me provided by my boss today. thanks kim! *8-)

well...what started out as a majorly sucky night at work is becoming somewhat better...we're starting two new publications this week, and there's been NO pre-planning done and all hell's broken loose....and i've been "promoted" (if we dare call it that) to doing covers, yet they don't tell me half the shit i need to know to get the job done...ARGH! start work at 6:00 - by 6:07 i'm ready to pull out the uzi and blow people away....not a good way to start the day...

got a bit better when we weazeled donna into going to K-roger to make a ben & jerry's run...yummy! b&j always make things better! triple caramel chunk - yummmmmmy!

i just wanna fast forward the work schedule a few weeks ahead so that we can be over the growing pains and settled into a regular schedule...well, at least i get to miss the fun next week - i'm getting my head checked!!!

weird dreams today...dreamt i went to work and cassandra was there, fully recovered from her stroke...*sigh* if only that one would come true...sheesh, now i've forgotten the others...they were even weirder...oh well.

so, at work yesterday we found out about our raises. i was all prepared to be majorly disappointed - and then i wasn't. i'm okay with the raise i got. yeah, it'd be great if it was bigger, but in this economy i'm gonna be glad i have a fuckin job, let alone one that gives me a raise....

monday's fast approaching...i'm doing the video eeg thing then...urgh.

time to get ready for work!!!

(if ya can't watch on sundays, be like me and get yer cool-ass mom to tape it for ya...) *8-)

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ya know, i think i'm becoming addicted to these little quizzes.... *8-)

alrighty...so, back to the suckage that is work...the insurance is gonna cost more and cover less, leaving me to ponder if i can afford to have tests done that the neurologist wants...and then kim calls a little meeting to give us some info about our raises - she STILL doesn't have the paperwork to process for our raises, nor does she know how much $ we'll be getting. but one thing she DOES know - we'll get half of our raise now, half in july. err, 'scuse me? yeah, so basically they're gonna keep 25% of our raise - although who knows, maybe in july they'll just tell us to fuck off. so half my brain is ready to blow the fucking place up, the other half is telling me to chill and be thankful that i HAVE a job and that it's not minimum wage, and that i'm not getting a pay CUT...argh.

perhaps it's the book i'm currently reading that's having an effect on my temperament, and my feeling fortunate to have the job that i do. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich is very interesting - ehrenreich tried living as the working poor do, at a variety of jobs in a variety of places - from being a "merry maid" to working as a waitress and at a wal-mart. and she found just how impossible it is to live on what's supposedly a liveable wage, and the stress involved in trying to make ends meet. thankfully, i'm not in that much of a hole, but i'm still not very well off. it's made me think about the future and what i should be doing - is the trader going to fold and leave me unemployed? will i need to find another job in the near future? should i move in with mom and lower my expenses for a while? *shrug*

had the insurance meeting at work today - how bad was it? well, i burst into tears in the middle of the meeting. i'm so fucked. might have to postpone or cancel my video eeg at the end of the month - i don't have the $300 deductible + $100 hospital visit + 10% of the final bill just sitting around in my bank account. dammit, i should've gotten it done last year. thank god my gall bladder shit happened last year - otherwise, it'd probably cost me $1,500+...argh...

more depressing news later....lemme just say things SUCK.

cute t-shirts...

aww shit, some of the stuff i wanted to get at the doughboy store is sold out already...hafta get those 1200+ doughboy points shipped in soon!!!

another mah jongg-less mah jongg night...at least dale showed up to this one...greg was still awol, off in atlanta or something...so we got dinner from uno and started watching tv - trading spaces is a really neat show on tlc...then, rather than play games, we retired to the living room and watched some stuff we had taped - the weakest link with gary coleman (he confessed on the show - he's a virgin!) and ron jeremy (ron should've won, not that skanky rick rockwell!) after the weakest link, we watched last week's episode of queer as folk - the season two premiere. woah, i forgot how much i love this show! i ordered season one on dvd, i'll be sure to start watching that asap...

so i went and saw cassandra today - i persuaded all the co-workers to cough up a couple of bucks and i went and bought her a plant and some balloons and a card. then i headed up to community hospital...her room was in the stroke center, but right above her room was a "seizure center" sign - guess that's where i'd end up if i started having bad seizures again. but i digress...well, turns out they'd released her from community and sent her to miller's merry manor for rehab. so i went there - it was pretty depressing, it looks like it's mainly an old folks home - lots of shriveled up old white ladies sitting around. i found cassie's room and walked in - i barely recognized her, she looked different. her eyes lit up when she saw me and she said "it's my friend! my friend's here!" i was glad to see her smile, but i'm pretty sure she didn't really recognize me. her daughter shawna and her niece (forget her name) were there, so i told them i was from the trader, and that we were all thinking about cassie and praying for her. when shawna read the card to her mom, she started choking up, about to cry. cassie didn't understand why though - i don't think she understands at all what's happened. she's just like a big kid - like i said about her lighting up when i walked in the room, and she told me all about her babies - the stuffed animals that people brought her. she's having a hard time with the vocabulary too - you can see her trying really hard to think of the words and they just don't come. she also said some stuff to me that just didn't make any sense, i had to smile and nod at her, because it was clear that she thought she was saying something logical to me. it's obviously very hard on shawna - when she walked me out she told me that cassie will be there in rehab for a month probably, and that the doctors were amazed at how well she was doing - her stroke was only a week ago. she said she was just going to try to hang on to her mom's house while she's in rehab, so it sounds like there might be some money problems there.

*sigh* it's just not fair.

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ever wonder what the hell a certain group of animals is called? well, here's the website to find out...certainly something to brush up on before that jeopardy audition...*8-)

okay, i can breathe a little bit easier now. the disability check came in the mail today. *whew!* my savings account still took quite a hit, but that's what the savings account's for, right?

brain break...tonight started out rather crappily - i arrived to find that since cheryl now leaves promptly at 7pm, i get all her unfinished work dumped into my lap. of course, this wasn't what kim intended, there was a lack of communication between day and night shifts - big surprise there. i got it all done, but it took forever cuz i certainly didn't want to fuck up a cover or three...

cassandra, the cleaning lady here at the trader, had a stroke...i knew she wasn't doing good, being diabetic and on dialysis and all, but it's still a shock...she's a really nice lady...carl, the cleaning guy, said that she's not doing too well, didn't even recognize her kids...how freaky is that...

if i was a female from a kevin smith movie, i'd be:

You're a very open and adventurous person, you've been around the block and back several times. Yet, as all people do, you realize that this life style cannot go on forever and need to settle down. Hopefully as more time progresses you'll stick to one gender and not be so greedy! Take The "Which Kevin Smith Female Are You?" Quiz!!

heh heh heh...

What pop icon are you? Here's me:

alrighty, lessee if i can put in a comment system without fucking things up this time...*8-) this one's from rateyourmusic.com

a few links to peruse in my spare time: Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization and Hoosiers for Transit Options - discussion of the possibility of light rail in indy and the suckage that is the northeast side of town...

ahhh, i love kazaa...much better than aimster...who knows how long it'll be around, but for now i'm downloading lots of stuff....on an 80s kick at this moment - got some playlists from tvmusic4u.com and now i'm burning the stuff to disc...

okay, i guess my sleep schedule is now COMPLETELY fucked up - i get tired, i take a nap, nap ends up being 7 hours long so then i don't sleep for a long time, then sleep for a little bit...whatever. just totally fucked up - not like my normal schedule (which "normal" people consider to be fucked up) and not like the schedule of the aforementioned "normal" people either...

i wish i could remember more details to the seizure i had xmas night - still dealing with the after-effects of it, i think...i remember lying down in bed, the next thing i remember is waking up on the couch, the back of my head just hurting like a bitch. what the hell did i bang it on?!? it STILL hurts, a week later - i suspect i got some sort of concussion. dunno if i need to go to the doc at this point or not - i'd think so, since a bump on the head shouldn't hurt this freakin long...

on the epilepsy issue, i'm reading a book from the library, living well with epilepsy, and it brought up an interesting point regarding epileptics and driving - it's totally discriminatory the laws that some states have regarding suspension and revocation of licenses for epileptics. "If suspensions are in the interest of public safety, as some claim, why aren't the same restrictions placed on people who have had a heart attack or a stroke? Why should we be singled out? Why should we be denied the right to drive? Why should we be forced to surrender our driver's licenses? I'll tell you why. It is because there is a residual stigma to epilepsy..."

maybe it wouldn't be such an issue for me if i didn't live in indianapolis. but the fact is, the public transportation in this city SUCKS. big time. if i could hop on a bus and go to work, i'd do it, even if it took longer to get there - and i have done that in the past. but since the trader office is now in fishers, it's not even a possibility. there's been discussion of a light rail system being developed and that would definitely solve the problem for me - but they're looking at just widening highways instead. i wish i didn't have to rely on my car so much to get around this town, but that's the way it is. why don't we focus on the light rail idea and then perhaps we wouldn't need to widen every fricking highway in town to make room for a car for each and every person that lives here?

welcome to aught two, everyone!

whew, 2001 is over, thank god!

let's start the new year off resolved to make it a trillion times better than last year...

shouldn't take much work, actually...

Take the What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be? Quiz

i'm becoming TOTALLY addicted to fark.com's photoshop category...someone posts a random photo, and then people make additions or changes to it, using photoshop or some such image editor...there's a lot of crap, but there are also pix that show amazing creativity and originality...

Tom & Ray rock!

urgh, this night is d...r...a...g...g...i...n...g...holiday weeks always screw me up anyways - just point me in the right direction and send me on my merry way, i guess!

argh! so, last week we had to turn in our enrollment forms for health insurance. currently, i have prudential's hmo, which seems to work great for me. but aetna bought prudential, so effective jan 1, no more prudential, no more hmo - i'll be under aetna's ppo. ppo's are supposedly so much more wonderful because there's so much more choice - blah blah fucking blah. i never had a problem getting the required referrals and stuff. all i know is that my premiums are going up (tho not through the roof like my married and/or with children co-workers), i'll now have a $300 deductible that i didn't have before, my doctor visits will be $15 or $20 (instead of $10) and my prescription costs will TRIPLE. used to be, i could use the mail order company and send in a one month co-pay and get a three month supply for the price of one month. not any more - they want me to send in two months' copays for a two month supply. what's the advantage to that?!? for most normal people, i suppose that's not a big deal, but i have 10 prescriptions to fill! and i'm supposed to have a video EEG in the hospital in january, but i'm gonna have to cancel that because i sure as hell don't have the $300 co-pay. i suppose i should just shut the hell up and consider myself lucky that i have _some_ insurance, but to go from having such good coverage to this _SHIT_ is quite a shock.

*grumble grumble grumble*

had a nice christmas, even though it seems as though everyone is sick with a head cold or some such illness...stayed at mommy's xmas eve - we cooked a big-ass ham...pooky came over xmas morning and we opened presents - lots of goodies! i did good picking out mom's clothes, i wasn't sure they'd fit, but they did...in the afternoon pooky and i went to my place, since that's where dad was bringing the kids...the phucker was actually EARLY - showed up at 1:45 instead of 2...coulda been cuz he had a woman with him...can't remember her name, something hard to pronounce...dad says they went to school or something together and have been talking on the internet...god only knows what he's been telling her...*shrug*...it was good to see matt & paige again...since they were s'posed to be there at 2, i hadn't made any plans for lunch or anything - well the kids come in talking about how they're _starving_ and how everything was closed...luckily i had stuff to make a pot of spaghetti, so we had some food...paige is a little whiny butt, and readily admits that she's spoiled...so she begged me to do shrinky-dinks and i said yes - my pillsbury doughboy turned out rather well. *8-) her designs turned out good as well, she seems to have a knack for it (could be why she was begging me to do "something artistic")...matt made a Mr. Hankey, the xmas poo from south park...

all in all, a good xmas...until i had a seizure late xmas night - argh! i'm thinking i'm gonna have to cancel my video eeg cuz i don't have $300 just sitting around to pay the deductible next year...man, they really FUCKED us on the health insurance, that's all i can say...

well no wonder rudolph was pissed at being left out of the reindeer games!

The Top 15 Reindeer Games:
15. Strip poker with Santa's granddaughter
14. Attach the Mistletoe to Santa's Ass
13. Spin the Salt Lick
12. Crapping down the chimneys of non-believers
11. Moose or Dare
10. Flying into the "No Fly Zone" over Iraq just to watch Saddam do a slow burn and Santa dampen his Depends
9. Bait-and-Shoot Elmo
8. The Annual Turn-Frosty-Yellow-from-50-Paces Contest
7. Scare the Holy Crap Out of the Airline Pilot
6. Convince the Elves to Eat "Raisinets"
5. Pin the Tail on Santa's Big Fat Animal-Abusing Ass
4. Hide the Venison Sausage with Vixen
3. Elf Tossing
2. Sniff the Tail on the Donkey
and the Number 1 Reindeer Game...
1. The "Rudolph the Shitfaced Reindeer" Drinking Game

I Hate Having My Birthday On Christmas
By Jesus. Posted on 2001-12-24
Having My birthday on Christmas sucks. Those of you out there who were born on or around December 25th know what I'm talking about. If you're born in July or February, your birthday is something special. It's YOUR day, and your friends and family take special care to treat you well and buy you gifts and simply celebrate. But if your birthday is on Christmas, like Mine is, you get lost in the shuffle. EVERYONE is celebrating, EVERYONE is buying gifts for EVERYONE else, and you're just not special. The worst is when people buy you fucking "combination" birthday and Christmas gifts. What a load of donkey crap! Everyone else gets TWO sets of gifts, and I only get one. And you think they spend twice as much on Me? Hell no. It's always the same excuse, "It's the holidays so we couldn't afford to spend a whole lot". The cheap fuckers. Even back when it was just My birthday and nobody else was making a big deal out of it, I still got shafted. I mean, what the hell are Frankincense and Myrrh, anyway? So this year, I'm not going to celebrate Christmas. I'm not buying gifts for ANYBODY but Me. (Dad's really hard to shop for anyway. Talk about the Guy who literally has EVERYTHING). Maybe it's time to give Kwanzaa a try.

"Do you think you surf the Net a lot? Here's a way to test your skills. Each year Terra Lycos releases the most popular search terms for the year. Take a stab at guessing the number one search in each of the categories listed."

go ahead, take the quiz!

how'd ya do? here are my results - no cheating! if ya haven't taken the test yet, look no further. *8-P

I scored 78% (7 out of 9 correct):
1. Most searched-for term on Lycos.com in 2001:
You said Osama Bin Laden. The correct answer is Dragonball.
dragonball? alrighty - we're obviously not heading to lycos to find out the latest headlines...

2. Most searched-for band:
You said The Beatles. The correct answer is N Sync.
oh jesus...i figured with george harrison dying recently, perhaps the beatles searches would increase dramatically...

3. Most searched-for woman:
You were right: Britney Spears.
interesting - RuPaul was one of the options for this question!

4. Most searched-for man:
You were right: Osama bin Laden.
well, duh - everyone wants that $25million...of course he's the most searched for!

5. Most searched-for sports star:
You were right: Anna Kournikova.
only cuz they wanted to see her nekkid!

6. Most searched-for fad:
You were right: Nostradamus Hoax.
of course, they started getting all those nostradamus hits on september 11...

7. Most searched-for TV show:
You were right: Big Brother.
yeah, i guess the 6 people that watched the lame-ass show watched the lame-ass net feeds too...

8. Most searched-for film:
You were right: Harry Potter.
was a toss-up between harry and lord of the rings - lotr's now ranked as the #1 (of the top 250) movie on the imdb, how's that for weird?

9. Most searched-for news event:
You were right: September 11 Attacks.
well, duh...

it'd be interesting to see the results from other engines, such as google and jeeves...

good to know i'm not the only one doing depraved shit in photoshop....

so, i'm gonna be having the get together this year for my dad and brothers and sister, here in my apartment...i'm finding i have to do a little "straightening up" - particularly the refrigerator, covered in magnetic poetry - very QUEER poetry at that, some of which i assembled, other works of art done by friends that have stopped by...

of course, adam (my 20 year old brother) knows i'm a big ol' dyke and he's had his flirtations with bisexuality (not sure how he defines his orientation these days) but it's my half brother and half sister that i have to watch out for - matt's 13, paige is 9. i have a _very_ strained relationship with their mother (my ex-stepmonster) and don't want to give her any reason to keep bro and sis from coming to visit me, so it's better to just set aside anything that the kids might see and casually mention to their mom...

i can keep most of the magnets up, but some of the dirty sentences that have been composed and some of the outright sexual words will be relocated to a cupboard...

some fridge favorites that will be removed or shuffled around:
"a curvaceous butt is the center of everything"
"do you like a pink vibrator up in your voluptous bottom"
"nympho juice is loose in your caboose"
"we want sleazy love deep up in the tweedledee"
"the fabulous butt thrust is amazingly easy to do"

hrmmm, i hadn't realized i had such a butt theme going on there! *8-)

other faves:
"horny halibut need pimping"
"she had me slurping like a nasty chickadee"
"i desire an excellent licking tonight please"
"naked sheep strut with vulgar homosexuality"
"naughty women are my poetry"

my magnetic poetry calendar next to the computer will need reorganizing as well - it doesn't have all the blatant sexual words, yet i still managed to make dirty poetry. *8-) to wit:

"blow me
a time to come all over
let a rain storm begin

she can open you
hear her gentle murmurs
remember the moment"

urgh, time to get back to the cleanup...

ya know, i've really been looking forward to going to see that new Russell Crowe movie, "A Beautiful Mind"...but now i'm not so sure...perhaps i'll just read the book instead...

i love biopics, and i know that from time to time you have to change certain facts or events around to make a good movie, but apparently John Nash's sexual orientation was deemed too controversial for a major motion picture and they've left all of his gay experiences out...

so, it's alright to be crazy, just not gay...sounds like the sort of thing that calls for a boycott of the film studios involved...

for more info, check out this link, at the drudgereport.com...

ya know, personally, i think russell crowe in some man-on-man action could be kind of _HOT_... ;-)

just got a call from robin - there's no need for me to come in to work tonight, they've gotten all the work done...damn - it woulda been nice to get 8 hours of OT...but i suppose it wasn't meant to be. i feel like crap, coming down with a BITCH of a cold...i'm all stuffed up.

got the hospital bill today...the surgeon's bill arrived last week - $3k+...

my 3.5 days in St. Francis totaled $9584.64. Of that, I have to pay $27.75 - a bargain, i suppose! Thirteen grand plus for a little gall bladder - yowza!

the purity test's making the rounds again...so i took it...the results?

Congratulations! Your Purity score is 41%
The current average is 64%
The higher the number, the more pure you are; in the same vein, the lower the score, the more of a sleaze-bag you are.

hmm...need to work on lowering that score...*8-)

yearly evaluations tonight at work...urgh. don't think i have too much to worry about, but ya never know...

currently reading "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" - it certainly gives me pause before considering that next trip to mickey d's...

urgh...work SUCKS, can i just say that...office morale stands at a steady ZERO percent, and that's being generous. 't all started monday evening, when we got our packets for the new health insurance - since aetna bought out prudential (our current insurer) we'll be on the aetna plan effective 01-01-02. no more hmo, it's not even an option. besides our rates going up, the so-called "benefits" to this plan suck compared to what we have now. seeing the doc will cost $15, instead of $10, and a specialist will cost $20. but the thing that REALLY sucks is the mail-order prescription service. right now i can mail in a one month copay for an rx and get a three month supply - no more of that, we'll send in a two month copay and get a two month supply - where's the benefit there? hell, i'm better off just going month by month and getting the rx's filled at the drug store, since i have dosage changes and the like happening. there's also a $300 deductible that wasn't there before. it just majorly sucks, but what the hell can i do? i'm sure with all my preexisting conditions it'll be hard to get coverage anywhere else, but i don't really have time to check it out - we got the paperwork monday and they want it back friday...of course, this is our hell week, we're kind of busy with WORK and everything. arghhhh.

just woke up from what had to be the most bizarre dream i've had in a while...

i murdered someone with a dirty steak knife from mom's kitchen...except i don't really remember doing it - i was just accused of it and didn't seem to have an alibi, so i went along when some evil bitch (dunno who it was) said i was guilty and insisted on calling the cops...so the cops came (i was at some tupperware party-type event) and said they couldn't arrest me without one of the witnesses being there so i figured it was time to make my mad dash and get outta dodge...but someone was stealing my car (a gold lexus, btw) and i managed to grab a hold of the inside through the back window and the guy took off...so i'm hanging on for dear life and trying to get this guy to stop the car - ripped off his sunglasses, tried tickling him, tried hitting him...

and then i woke up.

i think america's getting back to it's old self - top two news headlines this evening? #1 - "Bin Laden surrounded?" - certainly a valid news story, deserving of the #1 spot...

and #2? "Winona Ryder arrested"...yup, back to the priorities, stuff that really matters to us americans - hey, shouldn't we be getting updates on gary condit and shark attacks on the east coast? poor winona...

can i just say...dr. english is so cool...it just blows me away that i can call at 1:30 on a friday afternoon and get an appointment for 4:10 that same day! previous doctors i've had would just laugh if ya tried something like that, even if ya just wanted to see a nurse practitioner...

so, the reason i called for an appointment is that i'm not feeling too good...do i have some sort of infection? my blood sugars are out of whack (yes, i have been taking all my meds!) and i was puking yesterday and i've had diarrhea - urgh! my top incision looks really weird - right now it appears to be oozing yellow-green stuff...the other 3 are healing up nicely though...

hungry? have a nice weiner!

stetmagazine.com bills itself as "the finest in cutting-edge fluff" - and i'd have to agree...check it out!

AWESOME! and oh so true...

If I were a work of art, I would be Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory. I am a surreal landscape composed of several disjointed and bizarre components. I like to keep an eye on the time, although the very concept is fluid for me. People are never sure what they are seeing when they look at me. Which work of art would you be? The Art Test