The crazy lady strikes again for Tuesday, August 8, 2006

I just got a comment asking who Cardinal George was. If that commentator had read all or many of my blogs - especially this one and From Death Into Life - he would not have left that comment. He would, instead, have found out just who Cardinal George is, and would have done so without wasting his time (he wasted it by leaving the comment instead of doing his homework first), or mine (which I had to waste reading and responding to his comment). Folks, please - do your homework first. Read through... Sign in to see full entry.

I haven't put an update on Cardinal George in here for some time. Over the weekend, he developed blood in his - ahem - stool. This scared the doctors very much; he authorized them finally to tell the public that they used a segment of bowel as a urinary-bladder replacement of sorts, and they wanted to check the connections in his bowels to make sure there were no leaking blood vessels. When they took a flexible sigmoidoscope ("flexible sig" in medical slang) to the appropriate section of bowel,... Sign in to see full entry.

I've been going through my books the past few days, with the assistance of my husband, trying to weed out those books I'm no longer reading so I can sell them and earn us some extra money, at least temporarily. (Besides, the extra room on the bookshelves looks nice!) One of the books I dug up during this process is called Women, Sex and Addiction, written by Charlotte Davis Kasl, PhD, a clinical psychologist and overt New Ager. It is essentially the only book of its kind I've ever seen, written... Sign in to see full entry.

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.