Homeric Scholarship: UR DOIN IT WRONG
I'm reading Vicky Alvear Shechter's CLeopatra's Moon, yet another YA novel about Cleopatra Selene (daughter of THE Cleopatra), because we aren't ever going to get *good* Roman-world YA novels unless people demonstrate that they read even the terrible ones. (No, I am not really deluded into thinking that my library account does anything in this
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(This is why no one should ever watch a cop show that has decided to have a plotline about illegal immigration with me. I will scream. And metaphorically throw things. Because, seriously, if you are going to write a book or a TV show about a topic you don't know much about, PERHAPS YOU COULD CALL UP AN EXPERT AND ASK? THIS IS NOT HARD. IF YOU PAID MY EX-BOSS'S CONSULTATION FEE, HE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SPEND AN HOUR TELLING YOU WHY YOUR PLOTLINE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REALITY AND HOW TO FIX IT. I AM PRETTY SURE THERE MUST ALSO BE CLASSICISTS WHO WOULD BE HAPPY TO READ A DRAFT OF YOUR NOVEL AND TELL YOU HOW TO MAKE IT LESS OBVIOUS THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE ANCIENT WORLD.)
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The fifth time I called them all morons and ranted that any doctor with half a brain would've ruled that possibility out or in twenty minutes ago and if they'd just ordered their tests in a logical fashion their patient would be better already, Ben decided to go watch it on his tablet in the bedroom. :P
Also, "spot the ER error" is my new favorite drinking game. The best error I've caught is them rolling in someone who is incubated and unconscious and intoning, "We have a Colles fracture, here."
A Colles fracture is a broken wrist. If that patient has a Colles fracture, that is the LEAST of their problems.
I finished my drink.
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*snrk*
I have always wondered how much of the doctor-speak in hospital scenes is complete gibberish! Thank you for enlightening me!
I should probably start watching any episode of, well, anything that includes an immigration issue with a drink in my hand. Because, seriously, a cop literally signing a U visa for an undocumented immigrant who testified about witnessing a crime? Let me count the ways that is wrong:
1. Cops don't actually grant U visas. They certify them. And then immigration grants or denies your U visa petition.
2. Except that U visas are so hard to get that ~even if~ you technically qualify for one, you will never receive one. Most police departments have no departmental process for certifying a U visa, because they just don't happen3. Even if they'd gone through all the proper channels, witnesses of a crime do not qualify for U visas! U visas are only for victims of a crime who aid in the prosecution ( ... )
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Oy. Oy. Oyyyyyyy...
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