The crazy lady strikes again for Saturday, August 5, 2006

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.

If you don't know where I got the title from, turn in your credentials as a trivia buff (if you ever had them in the first place). This blog entry is about John Glenn, which is why I refer to space in the title. For those of you who have no idea who Glenn is, he's a former astronaut who served as a Senator from (I think) Ohio from 1974 to 1998. He first went into space in 1962, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth. (Yuri Gagarin had done so for the former Soviet Union a few years... Sign in to see full entry.

I've been dealing with a chronic tension headache all morning. In addition, Garfield is right in her Field Notes for today - I really am irritable, and I really was nauseous when I woke up this morning. That's a pity, too - my husband fixed brown-and-serve sausages for breakfast, which I normally like. Fortunately, I have an appointment with my psychiatrist later this month. The secretary working for his department did her best to squeeze me in to his schedule as soon as was humanly possible.... Sign in to see full entry.

The title was inspired by something Dr. McCoy said at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and their cohorts have returned to 23rd-century Earth, having gone to the 20th century to retrieve two humpback whales in order to satisfy the desires of a threatening alien visitor. At the end, McCoy makes reference to the bureaucratic mentality. Well, that mentality has struck again, this time at the Hemingway house in Florida. That house has a colony of six-toed cats, descendants... Sign in to see full entry.