You know, back in early 2020 when the world had just gotten wind of this mysterious new illness detected in Wuhan, us medics in healthcare were already freaking the fuck out, right, because we were already very much due for another world-altering infection ( Read more... )

January was fucking long! Was it only 31 days?? It felt like at least 50 ( Read more... )

Whew. It's been disorienting, these past 9 months without Arashi. They were a constant presence in my life for well over 15 years it feels weird to turn around and find them not there. I can't believe it's already October. 2020 feels simultaneously like yesterday and way too long ago ( Read more... )

Well, that was a shite year. It was just shite generally but doubly shite working in healthcare ( Read more... )

Can't believe it's been 12 years since I opened an LJ account. My interests have... I don't want to say 'changed' because I'm still into all the things I was into 12 years ago though not as fervently. More like, expanded. I finally met people who are just as obsessed with The Beatles as I was, my brother's gaming universe and mine collided, and I ( Read more... )

An X-ray showing what could either be a massive urinary bladder stone or calcified uterine fibroid went up in one of today's slides ( Read more... )

Finally watched the flag ceremony in Iraq.

Underaged boys and girls were gang-raped and impregnated by foreign soldiers in their own country (and somehow fighting these foreign soldiers is an act of terrorism but let's not even get into that). Those soldiers are now celebrated as war vets partly because Obama changed his mind about trying them in ( Read more... )

Omg I'm dying laughing so hard kfansljdsfmnbaskdhd

So, you guys must have heard of this Pastor John Hagee character. I mean, he's claimed that Jews brought on anti-Semitism (and the Holocaust) onto themselves, and that Muslims are just around to annihilate the world so Jesus can come back and save it, and that anti-Semitism is derived from ( Read more... )

Okay, so the internet is a bitch where I am, and talking world politic isn't the most interesting way to occasionally assure people I am still alive. But hey, it's got to be done, and I have to pick a topic, and because I'm a boring old woman who reads somewhat left-leaning news sites (if you call the BBC, Haaretz, AJE, and NST 'left-leaning') like ( Read more... )

Our fossil fuels are raising her blood pressure. Our biomass fuels give her asthma. Our hydroelectric reactors cripple her. And our nuclear reactors puts her at very high risk of just imploding. *anxiously checks Al-Jazeera again ( Read more... )