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03:25 am
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Hi, new people!
I'm emmy. This is my journal. Most of it is friends-only, but you're welcome to read what isn't. Or become my friend.
I am moderately short. I have very green eyes. I read a lot, to the point that it could probably be described as a vice.
I have more traditional vices, too.
I like piercings. I have some. I want more.
Professionally, I used to clean up after babies, then I cleaned up after animals, and now I clean up after adults.
I'll be done with nursing school faster than you can gestate a human.
I am the ultimate outlier on the "listeners also bought" charts.
I like old things, unexplored places, and stories I haven't heard before.
I'm learning how to jump out of a plane and not die.
I have been variously described as "the world's best wingman", "the Swiss army knife of comely wenches", and "out of [my] damn mind".
I think grocery shopping was way more fun when I was still allowed to ride in the cart.
I have a weakness for cute geeks, cheesy sci-fi, fellow hockey fans, Canadian rock, and good whiskey. If you come being or bearing any of the above, you're already way ahead of the curve.
So, who are you? And more importantly, do you want to hike the Appalachian Trail with me?
Note: It is not actually 2010. This is a sticky entry.
Oh... and why Tank Kitten? You'll have to blame my roommate ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rebelcoyote for that one. What can I say... tanks and kittens. There is no more brilliant combination.
Current Mood:  chipper
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12:29 pm
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Brain tumor?
I keep smelling jelly donuts really intensely in my room, which contains no jelly donuts.
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01:31 pm
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A love letter to woo
... as long as the central authorities depend on alternative medicine as a robust avenue for covertly rationing healthcare, the purveyors of woo will always be able to flourish outside the real healthcare system. And this, DrRich believes, represents the ultimate value of woo, and establishes why we should all be encouraging and nurturing woo instead of disparaging it.
DrRich has speculated before on various black market approaches to healthcare which could be attempted by American doctors (and investors) should restrictive, government-controlled healthcare become a reality. Some of these were: medical speakeasies; floating off-shore medical centers on old aircraft carriers; medical centers just south of the border (the establishment of which, at last, would stimulate the feds to seal the borders against illegal passage once and for all); and combination medical center/casinos on the sovereign land of Native American reservations.
But now, thanks to the success of alternative medicine, there is a direct and straightforward path for American primary care physicians to practice a form of now-long-gone “traditional” American medicine, replete with a robust doctor-patient relationship, right out in the open. Simply declare this kind of practice to be a new variety of alternative medicine. Likely, you will need to come up with a new name for it (such as “Therapeutic Allopathy,” or “Reciprocal Duty Therapeutics”), and perhaps invent some new terminology to describe what you’re doing. But what you’re actually doing will be so fundamentally different from what PCPs will be doing under government-controlled healthcare as to be unrecognizable, and nobody will be able to argue it’s not alternative medicine. In fact, it will seem nearly as weird as Reiki.
Alternative medicine, in other words, will provide American doctors who want to practice the kind of medicine they should be and want to be practicing with the cover they need to do so. And this is why we must support medical woo, and celebrate its continued growth and success.
This is such a good blog, there's hardly an entry in it that doesn't make me go YES YES THAT YES, but I am linking to this one entry in particular because the phrase "Therapeutic Allopathy" made me laugh so hard that I nearly fell out of my seat.
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02:19 am
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Signal boost
mordere's little sister Casey has entered a contest from Victoria's Secret in which the person who best answers the question "Why do you love your body?" gets a spa trip to NYC.
Since Casey is fighting a particularly brutal form of cancer, her answer is rather badass. And she could use a spa trip more than most.
You can vote for her entry here by clicking on the "Vote for me" heart. No registration necessary.
Thank you!
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01:49 am
[Link] | Macbeth is a much more coherent play when Lady Macbeth is a hottie.
Current Mood:  contemplative
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11:12 am
[Link] | You'd think that if you wanted someone to work evening shift, you wouldn't call them at 8:30 AM the morning of.
On the other hand, perhaps they've realized that people are more apt to agree to things like working evening shift when they're tired and confused first thing in the morning.
Bah.
There go my plans to be unproductive and absorb mindless entertainment with just_kelly tonight.
Current Mood:  awake
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08:31 pm
[Link] | My job is very hard work but it is never, ever dull.
And today I got to see a chest tube inserted and I got a free hemostat! So that's nice.
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01:36 pm
[Link] | I have a yen to visit Iceland.
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08:09 pm
[Link] | I would be totally okay with American Apparel selling metallic leggings for toddlers if they would promise to stop selling them for adults.
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01:55 pm
[Link] | So Michael Jackson... eh.
But Billy Mays? I am genuinely bummed.
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08:57 pm
[Link] | In addition to wishing I could do cartwheels, I wish I had a rottweiler.
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09:09 pm
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emmy is not an Amazon
I bought a package of yoga pants at Sam's Club (yes they have everything in bulk) and they are cute and comfy and about four inches too long. Who are you marketing to, Sam's Club? I am a woman of average height! I do not need cathedral-length pants! Nor do most Sam's Club shoppers, I fancy!
Perhaps, though, that is why these pants were such an excellent deal.
Oh well.
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05:51 pm
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This is not a constructive use of my time
My Sims, Bubbles and Parker McGee, are now the proud parents of Sprinkles and Sparkles McGee, following a gestation of approximately three days and a very glittery home birth.
Current Mood: amused
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11:16 am
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Thanks, CNN! This is totally what people need to know!
How to be an entitled asshole in the ER: A special report by CNN
Remember, folks, if you successfully line jump after triage, you're shoving in front of someone a medical professional has already determined to be in more serious condition than you are.
It's one thing if you or your loved one has actually had a significant change in condition since arrival, yes, tell the triage nurse if that happens. But if you're just huffy about the wait because you think your headache/discharge/oozing/itching/nausea is MUCH MORE SERIOUS than the triage nurse did, think long and hard about whether it's more serious than, say, chest pain, or shock, or appendicitis, or trauma. Because that's WHAT AN EMERGENCY ROOM IS FOR.
And remember, if you don't get admitted and nobody tells you after you're seen GOOD THING YOU CAME IN TONIGHT, YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO DEATH AND/OR MAIMING WITH THAT TICK BITE/HEADACHE/VOMITING/DISCHARGE, you probably could have waited till morning and your PCP.
I'm just saying.
ETA: Because a number have people have commented to say "but sometimes triage is done incorrectly!": Yes, of course that is true. Mistakes happen. If you correctly identify that it has happened and save your own or someone else's life in the process, that's good and admirable. If you get your significant other seen by demonstrating to the triage nurse or another professional that look, their physical condition is worse/different than your initial assessment showed" and they move you in line, hey, that's totally legit. What I take issue with is the idea that every single fucking member of the public is a better judge of medical need than actual emergency medical workers, and that they therefore should bully, name drop, and whine till they get a less inconvenient wait.
Because while there are of course dozens of anecdotal exceptions that everyone is aware of (hell, my mother the ER doc has been incorrectly triaged, and yeah, she would know! Although she did NOT make a fuss, and thus she was seen in the incorrect order, and it turned out to be a pretty serious condition, she survived and is pretty philosophical about the whole experience), the fact is that most people are correctly triaged. And on top of that, many people who are in really genuinely bad shape are in no condition to advocate for themselves, so the system this article is advocating truly does endanger them. And someday, that person could be you, slipping away without someone to shout on your behalf while ER staff try to appease an outraged wanna-be VIP who doesn't want to wait any longer.
If you recognize that that's a possibility, and you still feel that you/your loved one is in such serious condition that they need to be seen now over people who are in life-threatening conditions, hey, go for it. But recognize that there's something more than just convenience or even comfort at stake when you make that decision, please.
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09:31 pm
[Link] | I wish that I could do cartwheels.
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10:53 pm
[Link] | My life contains a dearth of extreme cuteness and an excess of ants.
SOLUTION!
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10:37 pm
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Oh Hawks.
I am a sad panda. But! I am also an optimistic panda. They're so good, and they're so young.
2010, baby.
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04:48 pm
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Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Current Mood: grateful
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04:16 pm
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The Backstroke of the West
Someone purchased a Chinese pirated copy of Revenge of the Sith and watched it with the "English" subtitles.
Hilarity ensued.
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07:59 pm
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Oh milfy milfy milfy milf
The missed connection ads on craigslist are always entertaining, but this is my official favorite ever: http://tallahassee.craigslist.org/mis/1173429780.html
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