• Oh goody, isolation, my favorite! I love wearing a mask, gown, and gloves for 12 hours a day! Fabulous! #
• Okay, nevermind. Gowns and gloves and masks suck. Except it might provoke weight loss through sweating. At least I can thumb type! #
• I am all done. Now I just have to figure out how to find car considering I was following staffers this morning to find hospital. #
• Wondered why I smelled like smoke after 15 hrs in a hospital. Realized that’s not smoke, that’s…modern medicine. Huh. #
• the small stenciled “surrender” on the old Surrender Dorothy bridge (outer loop before the mormon temple) always makes me smile #
• Went to sleep about midnight. Just woke up at 3pm. I slept as long as I worked! I could sleeep more, definitely should get up now though. #
• Wanted to watch tonight’s women’s gymnastics, but it’s not on till 10pm and I leave for work at 5am so the schedule simply won’t work. #

• Holy CRAP, Nadia Comaneci has got way too much collagen going on. Her lips are going to take over the stadium. #
• @lsrccrd Really? She looks too tan to me. The girl is downright orange. Then again, so is Marta Karolyi. #
• GWB just said to Bob Costas: “Once religion takes over in a country, it can’t be stopped.” Yeah, that’s why Americans United is so important #
• @firesign3000 Wait, am I understanding correctly that you are watching gymnastics too? #
• BTW @spurfer, @firesign3000, and others: I now SUCK at Bust a Groove. I’m AWFUL. Plus I gotta mod my new PS2 so I can play the JP version. #
• @spurfer Mine broke a year ago, just bought a new one. I’m excited to play Guitar Hero again, but had to try Bust a Groove for old timessake #
• @supalaze Are you crazy? FX is the best event! Do you enjoy the other three? I like beam and bars better than vault but I love it all. #
• Anybody know how to find gas stations that are open 24 hrs? I have like 9 btwn me and the highway but I need a place that’s open at 5:30am. #
• Aw man, this twilight drive to a hospital in Baltimore takes me back to 2002/3 when I did this all the time. New hospital this time though. #
• Good thing I came dressed professionally because I seem to have taken the staff-only route from the parking garage. Lots of scrubs. #
• @firesign I’d suggest a Frappuccino but you’d kill me Need some caffeine myself though, got a 12 hr shift and got no sleep. #
• Oh lord I need me some No-Doze. #
• Bored bored bored. 9.5 hrs of hospital work down, 5.5 hrs to go. One thing I didn’t miss about hosp work: the dance I do w/nurse around bed. #
• T-Minus 20 mins to the time I have arbitarily declared as run downstairs and get a coffee smoothie thing! #
• @nrturner + @scottstead = The Internets are falling! The Internets are falling! #
• What’s that? You need me to pull a 15 hour shift? Suuure. I’m already here, why not? #
• Yes, I’d make $2k+ in 3 days, but a 15.5hr shift + 90 min commute each day? You want a 18.5hr day, 3 days in a row? Good heavens. #
• @firesign3000 is the bacon salt monster! #
• Oh wait, you guys aren’t being chatty, I’m just getting all the tweets I missed between sending the “off” and “on” commands. Doh! #
• I’ve been here since 7am and I have yet to see the cafeteria actually open. - http://bkite.com/01dV5 #
• Tried 2 buy a diet coke. Machine had only reg coke, wouldn’t give money back. Got a coke, “anybody want it?” Guy said “thx for the blessing” #
• 21:15 Oh goody, isolation, my favorite! I love wearing a mask, gown, and gloves for 12 hours a day! Fabulous! #
• 21:46 Okay, nevermind. Gowns and gloves and masks suck. Except it might provoke weight loss through sweating. At least I can thumb type! #
• 22:19 I am all done. Now I just have to figure out how to find car considering I was following staffers this morning to find hospital. #
• 22:49 Wondered why I smelled like smoke after 15 hrs in a hospital. Realized that’s not smoke, that’s…modern medicine. Huh. #
• 23:16 the small stenciled “surrender” on the old Surrender Dorothy bridge (outer loop before the mormon temple) always makes me smile #

• Starbucks should have a rule that if you order coffee after 6pm, they ask you if you’re sure. And I have to be up at 5am! #
• @firesign3000 Somehow I am getting the impression that you don’t like Starbucks. #
• Finally - synchro diving is interesting but it’s about time we got toward women’s artistic. Let’s get it on! #

• Watching the Opening Ceremonies with in-laws. #
• Bob Costas just said ah-set-EE-ya. It’s oh-SET-ee-yuh, dumbass. #
• Ah, 2am showers. Nice and clean and warm. Good therapy for going to sleep. #
• And without my hearing aids, all is quiet but the ringing in my ears. I think it’s due to this headache I’ve got, not tinnitus. #
• @xo_tara_xo Don’t get the LX, get the 2008! It has customizable shells. #
• My favorite restaurant EVER. - http://bkite.com/01cEM #

• Booting into Ubuntu from Live CD now (I hope). Be right back (I hope). #
• Thanks to http://tinyurl.com/ndissteps I’m finally working. Unfortunately this is only a LiveCD, but I bet I can keep the session going. #
• Well that was fun, until the kernel locked up. LiveCD’s don’t save state, so I’m back in Windows. Puppy is next though. #
• I’m totally installing Ubuntu 8.04 via VirtualBox. I should be sleeping, but I just have to do this. Sure eats RAM like a mofo! #
• I’m wearing my new shoes today, contrary to usual Birkenstock breaking-in procedures. Oh well, I sit and interpret all day, right? #
• Boy, that gratitude thing really fizzled out on my blog. I think I might start copying tweets there since it’s my primary communication now #
• T-Mobile reps are always so peppy. They’re the happiest reps I’ve ever heard. You cannot faze them. And so chatty! Must be trained well. #
• Just bought wife’s bday present, Motorola W490 in heather grape plus line added to my Tmo acct. Will suspend svc till her real bday, 9/10. #
• What? This is not my beautiful Fail Whale! http://is.gd/ghs #
• Folks, send prayers/well wishes to Children’s Hosp in DC. Supervisor’s son needs emergency heart transplant. I’m so worried. #

I was going to write a long detailed post, but in the interest of maintaining the family’s privacy, I will just ask those of you who pray to pray for my supervisor’s son, who is in the Cardiac ICU at Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC. He is on the fast track for a heart transplant because they hope that will make him well again - but they don’t even know what’s wrong. It’s a very grave situation, so if you are the type to send well wishes or good vibes, please do that too.

Edit: Redirect your good vibes a little bit north; he’s being moved to Johns Hopkins as soon as a bed is available.

• Can’t believe I mixed up 2 Janes and ended up referring to the wrong Jane as “totally awesome” - not that she isn’t, I just don’t know her. #
• Cabbies who cruise for fares on a one lane street can KISS MY ASS. #
• Augh! Just got rickrolled by some clever Moralize.us member. #
• Am I the only person who thinks Sam Ronson is hot? She slums a lot, but she cleans up NICE. Well, Lindsay Lohan must think so too, at least. #
• @zalary Hmm, Puppy Linux? I haven’t heard of it, I’ll check it out! I like the logo already. #
• Wow, if you buy a drink before noon at Starbucks, you really do get a coupon for a grande cold drink for $2, valid after 2pm. #
• @dhewlett is cool. A true geek, using Twitter like other geeks, who happens to also be a geek idol. YAY RODNEY! #
• @firesign sekai juuno uso ni something something something tsuki nagara #
• Retweeting @sajego: Deaf culture and why there isn’t a “hard of hearing” culture - http://tinyurl.com/5tw7m7 #
• I’m free! I go pick up shoes now. Have signed up for another online diet community. Also bought new housing for phone. Did I already say so? #
• @spamspam Call me crazy, but I always thought the source of your powers would be…well, Spam - not Smores Pop-Tarts! #
• For those who were curious: I did not return to Starbucks. Already had too many calories today. Goddamn I sure do love microblogging. #

I need to get my hearing aids insured against loss, damage, theft, etc. They were $5700 and I have no insurance on them. Does anybody know anything about this? I’ve found a few companies that claim to offer coverage for college students - CSI, Haylor, NSSI - but I have no idea where to start or how to tell if they’re reputable or anything. I’m neither a homeowner nor a renter (no lease) so I can’t do anything from that angle. Help!

I spent most of yesterday asleep because I woke up in the morning with sinus pain and A gave me two Sudafed. So I crashed the rest of the day. I tried watching a movie but I had to pause it for a nap, I tried getting up but I had another nap, etc. I missed yesterday’s gratitude post, so I think I will turn that into an occasional feature rather than a one-month thing. Today I took my sandals to be repaired…despite my post about how wonderful they are, it turns out they are in need of resoling. So I brought them in and they’ll be fixed for $40, plus I did end up buying a new pair - exact same size and style, but this time in black Birko-Flor. That was $70.

I realize this is superficial, and I’ll get more serious later on. But right now I’m grateful for Netflix, which brings me movies I would never have the opportunity to see otherwise. Their catalog is not as unique as GreenCine or other similar movie rental houses, but I haven’t come upon many movies that I wanted to see that Netflix didn’t have. It’s cheap and it’s easy - I only ever go two days without a movie. I watch one on Monday, send it back Tuesday, they get it Wednesday, and I have the next one Thursday. Plus it saves me money because I never have to go to the movies anymore…I wouldn’t spend money on seeing the new chihuahua movie at the theater, but I’ll probably get it on Netflix. Their mobile website is halfway decent, too - as soon as I think of a movie, I pull out my phone and add it to my queue. Yep, I am glad I have Netflix, and can afford to have 2-at-a-time, unlimited per month. Yes, I am.