The crazy lady strikes again

Pat_B left an excellent, insightful comment on my last entry, including points I hadn't considered. Then, I realized that I had brought up something similar a while ago, I believe right here in this very blog. Pat made the point that in the for-profit corporate world, obvious slackers are often weeded out, and weeded out promptly. If you are costing a company money through obvious mistakes and equally-obvious dawdling or laziness (dawdling is a word Pat_B actually used in her comment), you can... Sign in to see full entry.

Just this morning, I re-read an article on AOL about ways to know when your job is in danger. One of the ways was illustrated by something my husband overheard recently. Now, here, I'm going to be deliberately cryptic about specific names and titles; I don't want to give away too much identifying information. However, please rest assured that the incident actually happened. My husband is a mailroom clerk, which makes him maybe one of only two or three employees who gets around the entire... Sign in to see full entry.

This is the time of day when I receive the fewest hits whenever I put a new entry in this blog. There are times when I put in an entry at 2 PM or so, Central Time, and don't receive any visitors at all to the blog. This naturally distresses me. I have a good motive for writing frequently - I need the money. When I don't receive any hits, I don't receive any money. It's that simple. I keep posting as frequently as I can find topics for that reason. I have no trouble attracting visitors at other... Sign in to see full entry.

I just read an article on AOL about the finding of a rare photograph of Florence Nightingale. For those of you unfamiliar with Ms. Nightingale's work, many apparently consider her the founder of the nursing profession. Even if she didn't found it, she certainly helped popularize the concept of the nurse, even going to the battlefield during the Crimean War to provide nursing care to soldiers. Her work proved definitively that good nursing care is essential to the proper medical care of patients.... Sign in to see full entry.

I'm really sorry that I need to vent yet again, because I've done so very much of it over the past month or so in particular. Yes, I know that all that venting has resulted in an increased hit count, and I'm grateful for the extra income that produces, but there is just so much going on in my life right now, and writing really seems to help relieve the stress. We're in the process of selling off some personal assets in order to pay our landlord the seriously past-due balance we owe him. After... Sign in to see full entry.

We did end up going to see The Da Vinci Code, although it started later than my husband thought. We had to sit around and wait while ushers cleaned the theater after the previous showing of this movie ended. Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbolism (apparently at Harvard - the movie does not specify just where Langdon teaches, but the book says that he teaches religious symbolism at Harvard). He is in France on a book tour when he learns that the Holy Grail is in... Sign in to see full entry.

I looked at the radar on one of my three weather channels on cable a few minutes ago, and it seems the rain which was headed this way has largely dissipated. I'm grateful for that, but we plan on going out to the local bargain movie house to see The Da Vinci Code, anyway. Both my husband and I have to get out of the house; as I told him, if we had another power outage, I'd probably be dangerously close to a nervous breakdown, if I didn't actually have one. Apparently, Cardinal George is doing... Sign in to see full entry.

We're not going to Mass again this morning. This time, it's my husband - he's been having anxiety attacks all night, and he's very tired because he's been up all night. He's taking a nap right now to make up for lost sleep. In addition, we have a nasty line of thunderstorms coming to the area, which defines the front lines of another cold front. I'm worried about another power outage. I just wish the power wouldn't go out again, thunderstorms or no thunderstorms. I'm a nervous wreck already,... Sign in to see full entry.

Apparently, doctors waited until today to release John Glenn and his wife, Annie, from the hospital. During the accident they had yesterday, the air bags in their automobile deployed, and John Glenn developed chest pain. That is why he and his wife were hospitalized. I imagine that doctors felt safer keeping them in the hospital for an extra day due to their respective ages. (To refresh the memories of readers, John Glenn is 85, and his wife Annie is 86.) Sign in to see full entry.

I was just on the Archdiocese of Chicago website, and found out there that Francis Cardinal George had to have various parts of his GI tract examined for internal bleeding. That's because his hemoglobin level - a measure of the amount of oxygen-carrying proteins called hemoglobin (well, duh ) in the blood - took another nosedive earlier today, and his doctors were concerned that he'd developed another source of bleeding. He had also passed some blood when he - ahem - defecated, so doctors were... Sign in to see full entry.