I was voting for no one's sister's car to be winged in a drive by (is the bullet in the car, or did it ricochet or...not trough and through, I'm assuming. I'd find a way to never drive there again. I'm so glad she's okay! Statistically speaking, I might have expected my sister to be the winged.

amych, your father puts the cray into amazing (I recognise the limitations in how I used that construction). That's so fucking inspiring! Every time I think I'm too old to make a radical change, I will think of your father putting the lie to old dogs and new tricks.

My father has been assiduously keeping himself occupied--he's having everything in his body fixed (or it all waited until retirement to break), and he's trying to stay socially active. If he were 30-40 years younger, he'd be all over the comment sections. As it is, he's still writing letters to the editor with abandon, and since we're Jamaican that's a thriving microcosm, and I think he's won two awards and done guest editorialising (officially) as a result. I am clearly following his footsteps by having my silly post ganked by IO9 and put on their first page. Then again, I could have said something useful. No one to blame but me.

What kind of law falls under the umbrella of public interest?

So...me. I came to the ER Tuesday evening, spent a couple hours in the waiting room sobbing, feeling humiliation on top of everything else--I feel like I'm not doing the weekly windows right. Which--I know. But I still do.

So I went home and came back at 1:30 or so. I got a bed fast, but about 4 hours lying in the cold bright hallway until a doctor showed up. Luckily not one I knew--there is one shooting me dirty looks every time she goes past, and she asked me what I wanted (1 dose of 4) and if she could split it. I asked her not to, and...she didn't.

This isn't going to vanquish the pain, but it will get me back on the workhorse.

After the doctor, a nurse came by and asked me to wear a gown instead of my button down. This makes accessing the port harder, but I'm in no argue with meatspace frame right now, and if I'd reacted it would have been disproportionate and risk me not getting anything at all.

Nurse disappeared after I came back from changing, so still cold bright and hurt. But then the Brazilian nurse walked by, tched at me not having the port in (she'd exclaimed upon seeing me earlier, but we hadn't spoken), and accessed it herself, which magically summoned my actual nurse.

And then once she'd expertly tapped my cath, she disappears and comes back with a double fistful of graham crackers and some fruit juice, and it made my crying of earlier seem stupid, but...I'm a fragile flower right now, and I'm apologising to no one. Just thanking her.

Sara, when you say voip only, is the sound being transmitted to your computer and not using phones? Conference calls are about 60-70% of my meetings, and I much prefer them, when I'm being diligent. But I work from home twice a week, some of our developers are in Minnesota, others are in India, so the default is to set up a Lifemeeting and a call.

Still want to shoot people who don't know what the mute buttons do.

Wow, I can't remember what was the start of the conversation I just had with the guy that measures life signs. Still, he's new and young enough to be impressed by my "I built this city" stories.

If there is no hint of an additional dose, I want to go home. Take two meetings, and then off for the afternoon. I hope.

What kind of law falls under the umbrella of public interest?

All subjects. It's more defined by who employs you - lots of gov't jobs would be considered public interest (but prosecutor, no; public defender, yes) as would jobs with NGOs or other non-profits.

What the law-literate lady said! Public interest law guide from Harvard; it's mostly about do-gooder orientation rather than specific subjects, but dad is interested in a bunch of areas around human rights, civil rights, immigration & refugee issues, economic justice. Basically, he's a big ol' idealistic hippie workaholic, and we loves him for it.

Thank god for good nurses, ita.

amych, Yay for your father's encore career! I think I have a role model, even if I'll be moving out of lawyering. (And into veterinary nursing.)

Fred, that sounds like a fantastic move for you -- I can't think of anything more fitting!

Found the bullet-hole in my sister's car: it's right under the door handle, and I put my finger in it. We don't know if the bullet is inside the door or went through into the car, because it's been dark since it happened.

She's trying to figure out how to change her commute so she doesn't go through West Oakland late -- although it was only 8 PM! The frustrating thing is that there is parking there, and there are more trains there, and it's not noticeably safer than the other station we use (Fruitvale).

She's reluctant to tell her coworkers because they all live in SF and will be all parochial about how much better SF is. Oakland isn't all like this.

Driver's door? Whoa, super scary. I hope she can figure something out commute-wise. I totally get not wanting to tell her co-workers, sounds like there would be not helpful reactions.

Glad you got some treatment, ita, even if it isn't really really enough.

Need time to read about amych's father...maybe this evening...

Yikes, Conseula! Hopefully that week will use up a lifetime's worth of bad luck in one go!

Bac-O-Bits? Those are soy, not bacon.

No, I was talking about the actual pre-cooked bacon bits in a bag. Though I have been known to buy Bacos as salad toppings (or snacks in and of themselves) as well..

In other news, I learned last night that the Japanese place a block from me makes delicious volcano rolls. That coupled with a price increase this week at my regular Saturday lunch sushi place may have me defecting. (They could fight back by seating me in the sections waited on by hot athletic college guys, which the nearer place doesn't have, but I think they turn male customers over to the waitresses as a matter of policy.)

We have VOIP phones. And are using webex for some meetings. Between the quality of the VOIP for people calling in, Webex, people on cells, people...it's just awful.