…12/11-08: when history lives in the present

27º in ABQ; 78% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; flags lowered to half staff in honor of NM legislator; a WWII B&W Sustiva ‘movie dream’; IMAX theater at new Winrock CTR; HP Call CTR will be built in Rio Rancho; LANL contract extension for another year; cult trial concluding?; Brad has hearing problem, has scheduled a 2:30 visit at Truman Clinic, he had ear wax; new MGMT for Santa Ana Star CTR; SW Chapter of CO Red Cross may have to close, due to lack of funds; the Round House was evacuated when a white powder was found in an envelope: male & female employees would have to be tested & take showers in separate areas; 11P teen curfew in Gallup; NM schools serving more free, but less food in their meals; 416 new jobs added before the state freeze on hiring; public funeral service for Alice King in Moriarty; at least two weeks for property tax checks to be cashed;

two meetings today: area & Infectious Disease doctor training; shocked psyche; life may change during next two days; I’m a nobody; staff meeting cancelled; finished Rounds by 9A; UNM staff & faculty morale at all-time low; hard to handle a pregnant daughter; we are not a team, longtime Coders do not know the doctors; Kay did not bring examples to meeting; patient swallowed toilet bowl cleaner; medical rank determined by jacket length; MGR not at meeting; Kay was kind to Coders today; patients in wrong rooms or charts per Census, listed as discharged, when they are not; JoAnn understands ‘the other side’ of the Kay’s coding discussion; no one has spoken to me about my harassment complaint; mother used heroin during day of delivery; I monitor residents for several weeks, and review their notes, and critique them; professionally took punishment;

biggest full moon of the year, appears 14% larger; flood warnings in ATL; rain along parts of I-95, I-75, I-10; GA, VA, Carolinas; Philly, from DC to Boston, coastal New England; winter weather: Houston, MS, AL, inner NY, Louisiana; E & S FL storms; hot in Los Angeles; temps from 10s to 70s; ice & sleet in N New England, Scranton, Worcester; along I-84, I-90; earliest snow fell in some parts of S TX; thunder & snow in New Orleans, Louisiana; NC floods;

SEN [R] reject auto bailout, 50% of people polled also oppose ‘auto deal’; Heath Ledger & the Golden Globe; 9–11 “survivor’s staircase”, consisting of 37 stems, was moved to its permanent location in a museum that is yet to be built; people carry a ‘junk food gene’ in their DNA; text message sent by OH daughter to dad by mistake, stating that she lost her virginity on the beach, was further leaked to everyone; the era of ‘pre-chewed pencils’; men are the bigger spenders in a family; foreclosures ‘down’, but due to holiday moratorium; ‘The Great Taxpayer Train Robbery’ vs. ‘the money has been well spent’ vs. ‘not seen by communities & the public; Obama will announce HHS SECY [Daschle], the SECY of Energy & Energy Czar; sell the seat on EBay; Jesse Jackson JR under the microscope as next IL SEN; no promises that The Big Three will not declare bankruptcy in 2009, or earlier, or later…or need more money to survive; Bush wants the lifeline bill to pass; Bruins lost; stolen ring returned to 102 year old woman; Obama involved in IL corruption scandal; good digital camera for less than $300, by CANON; Palin beat Britney in searches; KB store filing for bankruptcy; Obama’s ‘old’ car being sold on E-Bay for $100K; group therapy can help reduce illnesses; unemployment claims on the rise; America’s debt is shrinking; the submarine; USS New Mexico will be commissioned; the DOW is dropping; more children need a free lunch; Bank of America cutting 35K jobs; food shortages feared; looking for Obama mimic; how safe are our levees; ND is the most corrupt state: AK, in the top five; IL GOV promised he would never do ‘anything illegal or unethical’; being enticed to take an inexpensive vacation; Sara Lee cut 700 jobs; UAW may have to cut wages & benefits, but the original ‘Big Three’ House bill is dead; advisory vs. regulatory FED Health Board to create universal medical coverage for Americans;

more US troops scheduled for AFG; mixed foreign markets; Endeavour returned to FL, at a cost of $2 million flight ticket; riots continue across Greece; 36 karat big, blue diamond sells for $24.3 million; shades of ‘Twelve Angry Men’: actor accidentally slits his throat while onstage; in Iraq, 55 people killed by suicide bomber in Kirkuk restaurant; terrorists plot to attack world leaders at Belgium conference was arrested; drought spreading across the US, and the planet;