Monday, September 14, 2009

…9/14-09: avoid clichés

63º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; could the heavy rains of last Friday caused a garage at The Beach to become flooded?; Farmington to cut sixty more city jobs; two murders in one week in Santa Fe; NM Symphony cannot not afford health INS for its members; a worker at Keva Juice guilty of stealing employees’ ID info; weekend rollover on Eubank toppled a stop light; it’s difficult to find aspirin; I fell like I have a royal audience with the Queen today; more NM residents polled oppose the public health care reform option; water problem not caused by our pipes; porcupine sighted on Rio Grande bike trail; Brad got me a new Thermos bottle; Ghirardelli chocolate contest at the NM State Fair; Valencia CNTY does not want any more rave parties; priceless Native American Powwow tribal outfits stolen from the trunk of a car parked at an ABQ APT complex;; ambulance & fire truck take passenger off R/R bus, the person was wearing oxygen equipment;

1 PM meeting at the Bradbury, have to leave UNMH no later than 12:15P; finished Rounds before 7:30A; patients are becoming infected with the H1N1 virus after being admitted; one patient was struck by lightning during last week’s storm; tiny cubicles, no privacy, thin walls; I am working my TES edits too fast; more I/P flu cases; Katina took us back to the HOSP, since shuttle only picks up at Bradbury on the 35 of the hour; Jenny also watches NCIS; got a tour of the new BLDG; how did I stay quiet…I just kept chewing breath mints;

fog in MN & WI; heavy rains for NY, TX & OK; is former Hurricane Fred getting stronger?; more CA fires; rain in: Miami, SLC, Santa Fe [per Weather Channel], Dallas, New Orleans; wet in parts of AR, TN, MS Louisiana; T’storms in Tallahassee & Tampa; wet in Orlando & ATL; temps from 70s to 100s;
true confessions’ by Whitney on Oprah?; one year anniversary of the current US economic collapse; PRES wants more transparency in banks; 80% polled rate the economy as ‘poor’; Mr. Obama goes to Wall ST; a bear as a best man at a wedding; man who robbed banks in IL, IN, KY TN & the Carolinas has been arrested; a body has been found in the basement where the missing female Yale student worked, clothes were found in a ceiling tile, signs point to an inside job; pregnant NC teen was shot in the head and died while waiting for a bus; an H1N1 vaccine could be ready by early October; doctors no longer want to practice their trade; Eli Lilly is cutting 5,500 jobs; Jay Leno hosts prime time show; what happens when families cannot afford to buy clothes that are required by a school in their dress code?; Clinton & Obama do a ‘power lunch’; showerheads can contain dangerous bacteria; school banning ‘jelly bracelets’, stating they have a sexual meaning; McDonald’s in SC gave a gun & marijuana in a bag; NY terrorism plot busted, an group directly linked to al Qaeda, the UN GEN Assembly would be meeting this week ; AL boy fakes his own kidnapping after getting bad grades in school; swine flu stays contagious longer than the regular disease; Patrick Swayze has died at the age of 57 from cancer; no more ‘bloated bonuses’, no more regulations needed…but we are still in a recession;
Venezuela in a ‘weapons for oil’ deal with Russia; Osama bin Laden says PRES Obama cannot stop terrorist attacks against the US; ‘Goldfinger’ was partly filmed in the US, in Miami & Ft. Knox, KY; shop owner fined for going ‘too green’; oil is now $68.79 per barrel; gold dropped to $1,002.40 an ounce; Greyhound bus lines invade Britain;

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