GO AWAY! But first, please read my blog

I was thinking about this after coming across some of the disputes regarding authorship of some parts of the Bible. More and more I realize just how much we are inadvertently recruited into fights without ever stopping to ask if we really care about it. Politics or whatever. Do we really care who wrote the Bible? Do we really care how old the Earth is? I mean, what's the point? Let's say I drink the Kool-Aid and go on believing that the Earth is 6000-some years old... and? Does this better my walk with God? Does it increase my understanding? No, it's just a putative claim that goes nowhere and does nothing.
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I gots me an A on my last Frenchie test. This is good, since I was getting a string of 85s and it was getting quite old. Now I can get 95s.

There's still a lot of work on the house left. But it's time for me to transition from panic-mode to something less overwhelming for the long term. There are always going to be things to do. I don't need to be so paralyzed by the stress of thinking about them. And on, and on.

Buenos Aires was a great trip. Probably enough to sustain me for about a year. Just a near-perfect week down there.

Hmm, time to eat cabbage.

We were at Common Roots when Moody told us about her first rural emergency call. She lives in the bottom floor of the on-call house, and so when a call comes, she puts her shoes on and runs. The EMT's in the countryside are minimally trained fast drivers; they just speed like hell to the site and quasi-stabilize the patient and speed like hell back to the hospital. The victim was a kid thrown, drunk, off his ATV, who was mostly out of it but would thrash his way back to incoherent consciousness from time to time, bucking against his cervical collar. She grabbed my wrist across the table, her finger instantly on my radial pulse, and said that she held his pulse for 20 minutes and tried to chill him out, all the way back across the dark prairie to the hospital, before they put him in a helicopter to Hennepin. Where he is probably now making trouble for Green D, without me - Thursday was my last day.

Driving around a couple hours later, she said that when she got home after the kid had been packed into the chopper and flown away, she couldn't sleep. It was still there with her, and she tossed and turned. I'd wondered whether all of my friends would come to feel this way at some point. During Med 1 she seemed far more sturdy and adaptable and perpetually sunny than I did, and I felt that maybe I was deficient in resilience. As much as I liked the patient management, it rattled me. On my last day, K. told me to dial down the empathy; he thought it was getting in the way of my judgment. But I think we're all going to visit that state a few times. Once Andrea came over during her surgery rotation and told me about how she was ordered to do an emergency guillotine amputation. I was stirring a pot in my kitchen, and her face just got whiter and whiter as she told me what she'd done.

This morning, I woke up at 7:15, having gone to bed at 2:30, and the first thing I needed to do was pad into the living room and read about Common Variable Immunodeficiency in Robbins. Last night, a grad student at a party told me she had this disorder, and all that swam to mind was a long-ago given lecture slide in which it was abbreviated CVI and was connected to a lot of, uh, infections? Sat on futon in blanket reading about B-cells. Couldn't stop, read about anergy for a while. Couldn't achieve the knowledgeable feeling.

Everyone say hello to your two new mods: fabiola91 and cdsdralion!

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I think I'm drunk/apathetic enough to clean out one of my storage units. I have 42 B-52s songs, more beer and I have applied lip glass.

Past, here I come!

Today Lucky started loading on to a trailer without having to be led in, and then we laid her down.

Some people are against laying your horse down, but seeing what it takes to get Lucky to trust you, I will say that there is simply no other way for us to get through to her on this level. It took 75 minutes of hopping around and fighting with Chuck until she finally collapsed like a bag of bricks.

It is weird, but you can literally see the horse's mind blitz-out and go blank. She laid down and slumped over and closed her eyes and everything just changed.

And then of course, we couldn't get her back up.

She was so tired she pretty much hit the ground sleeping.

Lucky could go ten miles on three legs, if she had to.

But everything was cool and we patted her and stroked her and made everything safe, and then gave her some grains and turned her in for the day.

• 15:00 Amazon has an xbox 360 for people like me who don't have one for $100 bit.ly/liZbh #
• 15:04 ok, apparently it's $200 but you get $100 code to use at Amazon later. #
• 19:07 huge sign that you're a full-fledged adult? spending a saturday night baking dessert for a dinner party involving butternut squash. #

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In which I explain all about:

Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew
Monica: Still Standing
American Chopper (and, by extension, the "fag" episode of South Park)
The Suze Orman Show
Man Shops Globe
InfoMania
King of The Crown
I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant
Three Rivers
Modern Family

• 23:09 someone is throwing glowsticks in the air during fucked up's first song #
• 23:14 just realized this is the first time that i am seeing them without being up front. Sitting down in balcony away from chaos is nice #
• 23:22 Pink eyes finally shirtless. Only took 14 minutes. #
• 00:19 ...and now he's pantsless. Great show. People not being caught after stage diving is oh so amusing. #
• 00:23 Very fitting they are ending with a cover of "Louie Louie" while house lights are on. #
• 08:15 hates chase a little less now that i won back money spent on groceries. i like being less broke. bit.ly/Hwh4t #
• 10:47 after using swiffer wet jet on our kitchen floor for the first time, i wish to take it behind the middle school & get it pregnant. #
• 13:21 just watched It's Always Sunny on my lunch break and kitten mittens totally delivers every time! bit.ly/4bfWTJ #
• 15:06 i will be posting my thoughts of the Tyra episode that airs at 4PM EST. i'm sure i'll have much to say regarding the woman with two vaginas. #
• 16:00 can't watch tyra yet. THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER. #
• 16:03 sex with two vaginas? FINE. #
• 16:03 she doesn't know which vag was being sexed! #
• 16:07 she is amused by having two vaginas! i wouldn't be! #
• 16:09 she has to have two pap smears because she has double the amount of cervixes than other women. poor two vag lady. #
• 16:11 so it appears she has a septum going down the uterus into her vagina. the septum in the vagina portion has been surgically removed. #
• 16:14 i think we're done with two vagina lady and now tyra is blabbering about being sexy. BORING. #
• 16:16 apparently it takes only 3 seconds to determine if someone is "sexy" to you. Now that I've learned this fun fact, I am done with Tyra. #

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Here's the difference between a backyard Elise-chicken egg and a store bought "local organic" egg.



We are going to be full of vitamins.

One of the dudes I play volleyball with keeps getting texts from someone who thinks he's someone else. Last week while I was drinking tequila with him, he got this gem:



Feel free to call this person and let them know that they are sending these things to the wrong number, and may or may not be raided by the police soon.

Here's part of a personal ad that I must have made in 2002 or so. At the time, Cinnamon printed it out and collaged with it. 2002 me's awkwardness and shameless self-disclosure makes 2009 me feel really uncomfortable on her behalf.



Har Mar Superstar tonight and Mountain Goats tomorrow. I'm excited somewhere in here, I just know it.

Aside from the morality of the issue, how many fucking times do we have to prove to people that racism, bigotry, etc., is really dumb?

How to find out:

http://www.movies.com/movie-reviews/film-reviews/dave-white

• 23:17 hope no one wants to take the L train about now. Just had to share a cab home with a delightful couple of strangers. #
• 14:53 the best thing about working from home again tomorrow? being able to see the woman with TWO vaginas: bit.ly/3w8Ba0 #

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Tomorrow night I'm off to the opera. I'm going with an actress from the Twilight movie. This world is crazy. Someone should give it therapy.


At the same time I'm working on two projects that have no home. One is a kid's book that isn't for kids and the other is the bible for people who aren't religious. Yep. I'm a marketing genius. And by genius I mean idiot.


Waiting each week to hear if the New Yorker buys a cartoon is stressful. We send (ie. fax) off our stuff on Tue and usually hear back by Thur. Relative to other magazines they're amazing. Still. Stressful. I did feel like I had two good comics this week. Last week was weak. Apart from the discipline of banging out 10 cartoons a week and the subsequent improvement in my cartoons, my favorite aspect of the gig is making friends with the other gag cartoonists.

Last night I was at a bar drawing cartoons and some artist guy started talking to me about cartoons. I couldn't bring myself to say that I was cartooning for the New Yorker. I told him that I drew the cartoons and then tried to sell them to various magazines. He wanted to be a cartoonist. I didn't want to sound like I was bragging and I didn't want to make him feel bad.

The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

c_s_i

If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.

Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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