Viscous Lidocaine

100 candy bars later...

Children scare me, but the moth gasp!ed ooh!ed and aawww!ed over 90 costumes in under an hour.   I know have a slight understanding of  what it would do to her if I ever was able/willing to procreate.  It's very sweet of her to oogle.  She even made weary parents very giggly.    Me, I answered the door looking like the Whore of Babylon and swilling a rye & coke, saying things like "wow, uh.  did you guys want chocolates?"

Now go gear up to write your novel in Nov.

in which she goes from making her bed to disparaging commercials for detergent all in one fell rhetorical swoop that leaves her head spinning and wanting a nice cup of tea by scented candlelight

I am going to undertake the cleaning/vacuuming and airing out of our master bedroom today.  This is a very huge goal, because the room is big, it has lots of stuff in it, and it smells rather like an ashcan.  But that's alright, I thought.  I have incense to burn.

Except, I don't have any incense, having lived in southern and central Texas for the last 8 months.  It occurs to me that I haven't really been into town since we moved to the rurals, so I don't know if they have a funky side where I can buy Chinese herbs and nag champa. 

Of course a lot of the US is in the same boat I am, wondering where they will get their sandalwood, dragon blood or other lovely scents to burn away the dead smell of consumerism from their homes.

It seems that answer is in the aisles of the market:  Febreeze.

Incense for Americans!  Except it just makes everything smell like consumerism is dead in a flower field.  Buy more and more and soon we forget that we're covering up a dead-smell.

One thing that gets me about the smelly stuff in the aisles is the commercials.  There's a detergent out and it's infused (or whatever) with vanilla & lavender.  Both of these scents are thought to be calming, vanilla is considered an aphrodisiac by some.  The ad I've seen recently involves a couple who are at odds making a bed.  When they get into said bed, they are so overcome by good feelings that they can't stay angry and instead start cuddling.  There you have it: Tide will fix arguments!  Buy this and you will have a better relationship.

PSA

Set the clock back at 2am.  Garner an extra hour of sleep.  Or, if you're me, quizzically stare at the cable box when it resets.

brillo for the brain.

i read burroughs'  cities of the red night today.  and i think i have to go check myself onto the ward.

it's all a simple matter of perception

There's rhetorical fuckery at play in politics, and it's not fair.  Not that anyone said it would be fair, but the administration is clearly hoping to obviate thought in the population...

Reading  that the Conservos/Reps are playing on people's fear, I'd like to introduce this quote for consideration:

"... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."*

One of the main dangers apparently facing good, wholesome 'merikin society is the full-frontal attack on marriage:

The president drew applause when he reiterated his long-held stance that marriage was “a union between a man and a woman,” adding, “I believe it’s a sacred institution that is critical to the health of our society and the well-being of families, and it must be defended.”

Personally, I haven't seen any actual news to that effect, but that must be your very liberal media playing into the hands of the queers.  If there is an attack on marriage, why in the world would it hold the institution of marriage itself as a good thing? Can someone call a timeout and define the terms for me?
Feminists are next next in the "who is doing this to us" assault, beware ye who wed not for the sake of patriarchy-bucking.  You too are attacking whatever is conservatively co-opted as a core value.

*Hermann Goering, 1944

i love the ad. i really do.

but isn't michael j fox a canadian? 

exception proving rules. and little else

realizing I wasn't going to get better any time in the near future, I called the SS to find out what my coverage was, if any, and Hooray! I have Medicare!
except i don't get to use it because i didn't enrol on or before whatever the hell date it was so I have to wait til midnight of Jan 1, 2007 and mail in an application which will be approved (because I'm on ssdi) and then in July, I can start using the benefits.  Except I need them now, and I technically already was given those benefits, according to the nice person I talked to at the SS.   So what's the hold up?  there's no enrollment window now.  but wasn't I already enrolled.  well, I was, but i didn't get the card, so I can't use it.

But because I'm so damned lucky to be disabled, I get the in-case coverage of Medicare part A.  what is part A?  It's for skilled nursing, essentially.  which is utterly useless to me.  Of course the most fucked up website at medicare.gov couldn't tell me that, I found that out through wikipedia (?). 
So I filled out the application for Medicaid in Texas (even in my own county), which will give me money to be somewhat more comfortable.   except there's no box to check for what I need, which is a fucking md.

Let's contrast.
In Canada i had to wait at the health ministry for 45 mins, and then they took my picture, slapped it on a card and said thank you, we're sorry it took so long. 

I'm going to spend the afternoon investigating how it works in UK...it simply cannot be this ridiculous. 

most fucked up thing i've read today.

Tell me why this is weird...i'll give you a hint.

The city of Lakeway, just east of Austin, is taking drastic steps to cut down its deer population.
Too many deer in the small city are causing problems for some drivers and home owners in Lakeway.
Traps, set up by the city's animal control across town, will be used to kill as many as 300 deer through the month of November.
All the meat will go to area homeless organizations.

ok.  so, kill deer because they're annoying you on a golf course, or having the indecency to run into your car, and then feed the homeless.  what do you do if there's no deer? 

"the google"?

just now in a mini clip from an interview i didn't see the rest of the president said he uses the google, and likes to look at maps, on some program.  (it's called Google Earth, and my brother absolutely loves it.)

I am dreadfully sick.  The boss said to see how I felt in 2 weeks but I'm not sure I'm going to really go through with this, because I'm afraid I'm sick for a reason, which makes no sense to the general public but a lot of sense to me. 

Living with chronic illness is very very difficult, and there are days where it's very certain to me that no one understands.  except the other chronically ill people  I know.

omgomgomg

i got the job.
i start monday.

i got the job.
a job doing progressive-minded work in texas.  in texas!

this is too crazy, i'm having a whiskey.  because this time next week, i have to hob-nob with the state legislature.