RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1663

RDT Right Now #1663

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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:06:51 -0700
Subject: RDT Right Now #1663
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Do not hit reply to unsubscribe. To unsub, send a message to: <rdtrn-request@torithoughts.org> with "unsubscribe" in the subject and body. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 02 : Issue #1663 . o - O - O - O - O - O - O - O - o . o o . o o O "Thoughts right now... O o What will become of me, o o Become of her, become of we?" o . o o . O O O - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - O o . o o o Tori Amos, "Thoughts" In this issue: o-o-o-o-o-o-o New Pictures [ Erika & Alan <alewis246@comcast.net ] david torn on scarlet's walk [ guapo stick <woj@smoe.org> ] a bite out of my patriotic hot dog, [ wildkoba <wildkoba@wildkoba.com> ] Yes, said [ Beth Winegarner <echoes@atlantic.de ] armpit farts! [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] stamps [ john bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.n ] crap [ Brian Cooper <ByteMe@smartchat.net. ] happy birthday! [ Simon Booth <simon@texas.net> ] it's hard to get to sleep [ "Juan Manuel Torreblanca" <cheefoos ] cdnow article on scarlet's walk [ guapo stick <woj@smoe.org> ] yet another scarlet's walk blurb [ guapo stick <woj@smoe.org> ] Get Out of My Garden Part VII [ Brad Shultz <springhaze@comcast.net ] relief [ Violet <fluffy@annihilist.com> ] [ =======================> In RDT History <======================= ] On July 8th in 1992, a few members members shared the news that Tori's "Silent All These Years" video had gotten her nominated as Best New Artist for the MTV Video Music Awards. In 1993, someone welcomed a newcomer by saying: Hiya, welcome to rdt! Don't worry, no-one flames around here, we're the warm and fuzzy backbone of the net that makes up in karmic terms for the angry young things on alt.music.alternative... :) In 1994, members were sharing stories from the UTP tour and making plans to meet up at shows. (And, yes, griping about Ticketmaster.) In 1995, people were discussing whether the "Professional Widow" single, which was all remixes, was worth the money. Meanwhile, a member posted a hoax notice that Atlantic had announced that "Twinkle" was going to be the next single! In 1997, there was a heated debate over men's and women's rights, and the results of the women's rights movement and feminism. In 1998, some complaints about the songbook for "From the Choirgirl Hotel." In 2001, some information about Tori's adopted homeland, Cornwall. [ ================================================================== ] Today's fuzzy ferret assistant: Beth Winegarner Missed a digest? Pick up a copy at the RDTRN archives: http://www.torithoughts.org/rdtrn/archives -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 21:55:39 -0400 From: Erika & Alan <alewis246@comcast.net> To: Trevor Washington <chicago272@hotmail.com>, Donna Ruscher <dmrusch@attglobal.net>, RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>, Melvyn D Lewis <pamelam@amserve.net>, Stephen Hadden <HaddenS@doi.state.fl.us>, Henry-- Graf <HenPen@webtv.net>, Antonacopoulos Glenn <Antonacopoulos_Glenn@prc.com>, Ashanti Cervantes <nolegrl25@hotmail.com>, Wendy and Carl <wendalynn@msn.com>, Abby <orangecat@comcast.net> Subject: New Pictures There are some new Gareth and family pictures up. :) Enjoy! http://mywebpages.comcast.net/alewis246 -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 22:10:34 -0400 From: guapo stick <woj@smoe.org> To: fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, torinews@smoe.org, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: david torn on scarlet's walk lookee what i found! looks like david torn is playing guitar on _scarlet's walk_. for those who don't know, david torn is a fantastic guitarist and composer. in addition to several solo records and writing and playing music for soundtracks, he's also teamed up with the likes of mick karn (japan), dale bozzio (missing persons), tony levin, bill bruford, chris botti, vernon reid and elliot sharp for various projects. here are the news bits from solid states, a david torn fansite which gets news and info directly from david: http://www.gaalore.com/members/gaalore/dtorn/dtorn.nsf/07a8191a02dddea7802569f60 005490c/13dcf50a0879ac60c1256b9f000309d9!OpenDocument news item created: 18/04/2002 subject: cellular activity : April 2002 hey all .. some current cellular activity posted by dtorn : folks, some of what's been up: [...] 7) preparing my gear for shipment to the imminent recording sessions w/tori amos, [...] http://www.gaalore.com/members/gaalore/dtorn/dtorn.nsf/07a8191a02dddea7802569f60 005490c/75ce97c7820dc5c280256bbd00426c39!OpenDocument news item created: 18/05/2002 subject: report from the front lines (well, Cornwall) This report was sent in by our man in Cornwall, where he's been deep under cover, inflitrating the sessions for the next Tori Amos album : unbelievably great people. great atmosphere. great songs. great playing. great food. great wine. great time! so it sounds like all is going well ! http://www.gaalore.com/members/gaalore/dtorn/dtorn.nsf/07a8191a02dddea7802569f60 005490c/933ee5421242517f80256be400624383!OpenDocument news item created: 26/06/2002 subject: cellular activity news @ June 2nd: been busier than ever. after the (phenomenally enjoyable!) recording w/tori amos, i was thrust directly into the heart of the beast we call hollywood: [...] woj [Note from Violet: Oops, I totally added my David Torn note after the wrong message -- last post in the previous digest instead of this one! See how out of it I am! Well, you can go back and read it now, and maybe it will actually make sense now that you've read the above correct message. Doh! Well, this gives me the chance to add that woj told me I could tell everyone he's a baboon because it was my telling him about David several weeks back that made him go looking for info in the first place. I'm just kicking myself for not thinking to see if David had mentioned it anywhere himself and then I could have said something about it. Double doh! I was assuming it was being kept secret, so didn't want to say anything until I knew it was okay. I guess it's okay. <heh> ] -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 02:13:12 -0400 From: wildkoba <wildkoba@wildkoba.com> To: rdt <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: a bite out of my patriotic hot dog, anyone? if it's not one thing, it's another...fucking a. i saw last week that missouri signed a state law requiring the pledge of allegiance to be recited in all its public schools (http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/03/missouri.pledge.ap/). under the law, "public schools must ensure the pledge is recited weekly in a scheduled class of every student, but students cannot be required to participate." it's one thing to write a retarded judicial ruling that makes the pledge unconstitutional, but it's perhaps worse to pass a state law requiring it. yes, students themselves won't be required to participate, but this to me is more violative of some basic civil right than the choosing to say or not say the words "under god." that such a big stink is being raised about this is kinda crazy. we have school systems across the country falling apart. we have kids who live in neighborhoods where they can't go out and play without dodging bullets. we have kids getting abused in all sorts of horrendous ways. if we could dedicate as much time to those issues as was spent in preparing the "pledge" case (the plaintiff clocked 4000 hours!), the world would be a better place. big word up to my boy kobayashi for once-again winning the coney island hot dog eating contest. not only did he win for the second year in a row, but the 5'4" 110 lb. man bested his own world record by downing 50 1/2 dogs in 12 minutes. he's not related to me, but it's good to see a kobayashi make good for him or herself. "to compare kobayashi to michael jordan would be a slight to kobayashi." -some guy quoted on espn. - wild koba -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 00:30:59 -0700 From: Beth Winegarner <echoes@atlantic.devin.com> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Yes, said So I almost started a post tonight about Scarlet's Walk and then I thought better of it but ... Andrea and I were talking today and she said she didn't want to know too much about this album before it comes out. Do other people feel that way? Should posts about the album come with "spoilers"? I admit the LA Times thing got me all curious. I can never really wait to hear a new Tori album, anyway. It's funny enough that Kim knows David Torn, because both Kim and Devin know this guitar-maker, Steve Klein, and an associate of his. Klein makes these sort of kidney-shaped custom guitars. Devin doesn't know David Torn directly but Torn is closely associated with the Klein guitar company and he worked on some of Torn's stuff (newsletter etc). I said to Devin tonight, "now you're only three degrees of separation from Tori! It's inescapable!" (he can't stand her music.) But he's got the flu so he couldn't even really muster up a good pissed-off look. I'm thinking Good Thoughts for Violet's mom and Megan's cat. My life is continuing to do this wacky crossover thing where people from various parts of my life are converging on each other, especially on livejournal. I'm actually kind of getting used to it though, which is good because it was freaking me out for a while. Andrea dragged up the past and asked three questions. (No, not "What is your name?" "What is your quest?" etc.) Here are my attempts at answers: Dinner guest: Yeah, okay, Tori. My immense NEED to sit down and Discuss with her has gotten less and less over the years, but you know, I bet we could have a good talk nonetheless. I'd like to have Neil over, too, while I'm at it. What would I make? Possibly my portobello mushrooms -- which I cook with butter and garlic and fresh rosemary -- or teriyaki salmon over rice with broccoli -- or maybe pasta with tomato sauce made from scratch -- or possibly roast chicken basted in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I guess it would depend what they're in the mood for. Best friend: I guess I would say Fenwick Rysen, if I knew what I know about him but wasn't already his best friend. Except that the reason I know so much about him is that we're already best friends. I know, no one knows what I'm talking about. Well, almost no one. (Sometimes I am glad that the RDTRN/chaosmatrix crossover has not happened so far.) Lover: Hmmm. I have not particularly been jonesing for anyone lately. Well, okay. Viggo Mortensen, now that you've twisted my arm. Can he please dress as Aragorn, while we're making requests? Thanks. Beth -- "How do you 'consume' music, when (a) music isn't a thing and (b) it's still there after you've used it... Just because the industry markets it as a commodity doesn't mean we have to accept their terms of reference. It's time people stopped talking about 'consuming' art and culture and so on and started thinking of art as an activity." (Christopher Small) _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ music reviews + stories + poetry + photography + collage + Watchers livejournal + selkies + esoterica + links = http://echoes.devin.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 04:14:40 -0400 From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: armpit farts! Ade said: "if you can hold a job, pay the bills, and deal with the pressures of life yet appreciate the fun of blowing bubbles, armpit farts, and jump ropes, you'll be better off." rofl! ARMPIT FARTS!!! rofl.. seriously.. very good point. I've heard people say "we don't grow old because we age, we grow old because we've stopped laughing" or something to that effect.. so.. very good point! Ade then mentioned to Megan: "losing a pet really hurts..." damn right it does! :P I still remember what day my dog died--December 15, 1998. It *sucked*. I didn't expect to be as torn up over it as I was, but I actually cried over it a few nights. Boy.. that was tough. Anyway, like Ade said, Megan, we're all with you here. you'll pull through! :) Kerri said: "so i'm moving to georgia in a week" SWEET! what area? I live in Georgia too! (in the US of course, unless you're speaking of Georgia, Russia...) Lavs spoke in reply to my feeling my little niece (we think it's a girl..) stretching her little cramped self: "tonight I put her hand on my tummy while bubs was doing backflips and Tiarna was watching tele. After it moved a couple of times I asked her if she felt it, she said yeah, and when I told her it was the baby there was no reaction. Must do it when she's not distracted by the tv." TV is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.. at least at times like that. :D Juan said: "on a light read through the digest I thought our very own supermodel in the house had written for subject line >Subject: still tired from time travel!" HA!! nope.. not yet! :) he then said: "cindy, thanks for the get well soon wishes unfortunately I haven't" d'oh! well.. *sends good thoughts and get-well-soon thoughts out to you still* :) Violet: *sends good thoughts and get-well-quick wishes to your mom!* Hope she recovers quickly. :) I was reading a couple of my stories that I put on www.fanfiction.net (under the pen name Ciara Blaze, mind you).. and wrote another one based on Northern Lad last night (well, *early* Sunday morning..).. do you guys wanna see it? I'd send it to fanfic.net but their submit option is down for the time being... anyway it's nearly 5AM and I gotta GO TO BED. later! :) Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford (Keyyooo on ICQ and IRC, Keyyooo1 on AIM) http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/ -- http://www.platinumcomplication.com/cyndi/ *or* http://www.icenine.org/cyndi/ Tori Amos' response when asked to describe herself in five words: "I. Do. Not. Describe. Myself." ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 05:55:25 -0400 (EDT) From: john bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.net> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: stamps Lavs said: > Of course, you could have been talking about the boring business type > rubber stamp (eg with company contact details), but that's never my > first thought when I hear 'rubber stamp'. Nope, I was talking about making your own rubber stamps. There's a nifty store in Provincetown (Massachusetts, Cape Cod) called Norma Glamp's Rubber Stamps where they have tons of different rubber stamps. They also had the felt-tip brush-pens that I used to use when I made comics (stick figure comics, because I can't draw). So, I bought one and now I'm making comics again. I feel like the woman in "You Can't Take it With You" who became a playwright because somebody delivered a typewriter to her house by mistake. Anyway, the store also had the raw materials to make rubber stamps, so I stocked up on those as well. Haven't exactly figured out how or if I'll use them, but I have them available if needed. Megan, so sorry to hear about Coco. Violet, hope everything goes okay. Let us know when you can. As B/4, John -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 22:32:16 +1000 From: Brian Cooper <ByteMe@smartchat.net.au> To: Really Deep Thrusts Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: crap I see our beloved Prime Minister (a.k.a. arse licker) is in Crete. Great! I'm sure they really needed another cretin there. Speaking of arses, mine didn't enjoy last weekend and no, I didn't drop the soap. It was a severe reaction to chilli. I had nearly none late afternoon and that night, I cramped up and my guts exploded. I spent just about all of Saturday on the toilet. It even made me bleed. Is this what it's like to have a period each month? I used to think I had a weak stomach, but I've amended that to weak intestines. In #1658, we had... >In 1997, coming out stories and issues, a recipe for "smoked ewok:" I wouldn't recommend them. Even if you do get all that hair off them, they taste like chicken. From #1659: >Subject: which SLG are you? >http://casket4mytears83.tripod.com/quiz/slg.html No prizes for guessing I'm a "Strange Little Girl". It goes well with my prison bitch name of Queenie. Elisha declared in #1660... >Coops: You would be lost without your innuendos, wouldn't you? Innuendo? How can it be innuendo when I'm blatantly obvious? I think Jim's post about acting your age/being childish was quite timely. My view on life is that if you are "grown up" all the time, you'll become miserable and you forget how to find wonder in little things, or how to laugh when things go wrong. Surely, there are times to be serious, but surely you can't be serious all the time. And stop calling me Shirley. :-p But likewise, if you spend your life acting like a kid you'll go nowhere fast. I like to balance it out, so if I act more insane than usual, it's from over-compensating. I'm also sure that Elisha would like a Dickens' Cider. Note how I've moved the apostrophe, as I've never met anyone called Dicken. For those who want to hear what nearly caused me to have an accident in my own garage, the first link is what I heard. The second seems to be older and all over the net. http://www.pbafm.org.au/max/cider.wav http://www.redhothumor.com/downloads/dickens_cider.wav Cyndi wrote: > *evil grin* I'd want to sprout a penis.. not for any other reason >except.. to see what the big whoop about penises are. :) Where would you want to "sprout" it, in the middle of your forehead? It's not a matter of seeing, it's feeling that gives it the big whoop. >hey Coops, when's the last time you had a Dicken's Cider?? Come here and I'll tell you a minute after the fact. Linda said: >Linda likes a little Dicken's Cider ass? Gee thanks >Brian... if only you knew. ;-) Ohh, I do. Remember that little thread we had a few months back? I'm still having palpitations from it. Why do you think I chose you for the ass? Lavs replied about the 5 star hotel across the road from work: >Funny, you didn't show us that on your guided tour. It's a wonder you get >any work done at all. To have shown you that, I would have had to take you into the office area, which would have meant I'd have to introduce you to Nerd Boy 2. I wouldn't wish that on an enemy, let alone a friend. Bethey wrote: >Kids Get Culture in Quakertown >Beth Coulter > > Steve Erwin of Croc Hunter fame dropped by Quakertown Now stop right there! How can you even put "culture" and Steve Irwin in the same story?!! Ewww.... I'd rather have Paul Hogan as a cultural icon any day compared to him. No, we don't all act like him, except for all those crazy Queenslanders. Right Dani? Brian -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 06:00:00 -0500 From: Simon Booth <simon@texas.net> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: happy birthday! riley :) contact me at: AOL IM: PhoenyxxS MSN: phoenyxx ICQ: 155394538 Yahoo: phoenyxx2002 -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:35:41 -0500 From: "Juan Manuel Torreblanca" <cheefooska@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: it's hard to get to sleep e- that song makes me cry and I want the new Breeders too so bad... but, you know? the first time I heard the new single on the radio I turned it on and I heard the chorus "ah ah ah ah aaaaaaah" and I thought it was Julieta Venegas, go figure. lisa leo- your post about coming back from a heavenly holiday into work and stress reminded me of Groove Armada's video for "whenever I'm down I call on you my friend" (I'm not really sure of the name of the song) but it's a beautiful video where a girl remembers a wonderful vacation at the beach and night-club with 2 friends and stuff and ends up crying at the office and it's really sad. but the thing is your post was really nice so I hope you are able to de-lurk and Ely sounds like a great cat. Violet- I wish the best outcome for your mother's surgery. I hope you don't get too tired by all this. I will light a candle on your behalf. I'm still feeling like a million dollars... the headache is not so bad now... but I spent a terrible night, the cough went crazy I took all of my medicines I was loosing my mind I drank water like a thirsty camel and peed a dozen times I was so desperate and then of course I started worrying I had taken too much medication (my stomach hurt as well) and I just said to myself (please don't end up in the hospital) it was one of those nights coughing and coughing turn to the clock and its 2 in the morning coughing coughing turn to the clock and it's 3 in the morning etc... wanting to cry and feeling I'm gonna die and being pissed off etc... so I did sleep from about 6 am to 9 when the cleaning lady arrived and I decided I wouldn't go to work... I will get less money but I don't care I'm still sick and I will never get better roaming around the city in this fucking weather... I'm just looking forward to eating with my grandma in the evening... though I'm a bit worried I might give her my flu... as I already seem to have given it to my best friend... I should be held quarantine or something well I don't have much more to say cheers juan _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:13:48 -0400 From: guapo stick <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: cdnow article on scarlet's walk http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/pagename=/RP/ALLSTAR/article.html/fid=33146 7 Tori Amos' America-Themed Scarlet's Walk Due Oct. 15 July 8, 2002, 11:30 am PT Native American history, pornography, Oliver Stone, and Andrew Jackson are just some of the subject matter on Tori Amos' forthcoming America- themed new album, Scarlet's Walk, according to a spokesperson for the singer. As for the album's namesake, Scarlet "may be the land and may be a person and may be a trail of blood" and is the personification of everyone's search for answers, as the story of the album goes. The album's musical and lyrical journey was inspired by the tragic events of Sept. 11 -- the album was written entirely after the attacks on America while Amos was on the road. Scarlet's Walk -- Amos' ninth -- is set for an Oct. 15 release date on Epic Records in the U.S. (Oct. 14 internationally) and was produced by the often-eccentric singer-songwriter-pianist in Cornwall, England. Drummer Matt Chamberlain and bassist Jon Evans once again appear on the album, which is Amos' first release under her new deal with the Sony label. (She had previously recorded for Atlantic Records, with her last album being 2001's covers album Strange Little Girls.) The first single, "A Sorta Fairytale," will hit radio Aug. 27, while Amos will kick off a headline U.S. tour this fall with an international trek to follow. -- Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:50:27 -0400 From: guapo stick <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: yet another scarlet's walk blurb http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1455970/20020708/eminem.jhtml Based on a cross-country trip taken after September 11, Scarlet's Walk, the first album by Tori Amos for her new label, Epic, is finished and scheduled for an October 15 release date. Amos' sixth studio LP follows last year's covers album, Strange Little Girls, and will be introduced via the first single, "A Sorta Fairytale." -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 20:54:07 -0500 From: Brad Shultz <springhaze@comcast.net> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Get Out of My Garden Part VII Will try to honor sweet Violet's request to keep this list active. We have lost 3 kitties since 1998, Daphne, Tabby and Dexter. This is what the card read from the Vet on Daphne's passing. We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan. I wrote this epitaph for my queen bee Daphne who is buried in our back yard under a bird bath with a concrete angel in the middle of it. Rest in peace, Queen bee. We know God has given you back your jumper and you are tightrope walking in Heaven. That being said, I wonder why no comments have been made to Ari's critique of Jim's virginity post. Watching home run derby. Garden update-----no red tomatoes yet but plenty of green ones. Eating squash...eating hungarian wax peppers. Get out of my garden.... Out -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 03:31:41 -0700 From: Violet <fluffy@annihilist.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: relief My mom made it through her surgery and is doing pretty well. I was so scared waiting for it to be over, I cried when the doctor told me she was in recovery. Doctor: Hi, how are you? Me: Very nervous and worried? Doctor: Why are you nervous and worried? Everything's fine. Me: <passing out from relief> When my father had surgery in this same hospital in 1988, he had a stroke afterwards and never recovered, staying in the hospital the two remaining months of his life. I was terrified my mom was going to have a stroke. It could still happen, since my dad's did after sugery. But I doubt it. My dad had cancer plus a bad heart plus he smoked heavily and was an alcoholic plus he had a lot of problems with blood clots anyway. My mom doesn't have any of that. But it's still just scary. And it took two hours longer than the doctor had estimated to my mom, so you know ... you imagine the worst. And I had only had about two hours of sleep -- bad sleep, very light sleep, nervous sleep -- because I was worried. At one point I had a dream where I went a desk to see how she was after surgery and there was a chart there listing all the patient's names and their status (which room they were in), and next to my mom's name in the status box it said, "In Loving Memory" and I knew she hadn't made it. She had to be there at 6am, but I just couldn't go that early. My brother drove her up. I'd gotten up at 4:45 before they left, but went up at 7:15 (getting there close to 8). Then it was a lot of waiting. It was six hours from the time I got there until she was out of recovery, and those six hours were some of the most miserable I've ever lived through. Not just the waiting, but because I was also feeling sick besides and had hardly had any sleep. I would sit there and look at a magazine or try to read a book or put a CD in my laptop and try to focus, but couldn't, and then I'd look at the clock and only five minutes had passed. Time was creeping soooooo slow. After the surgery, I had an hour and a half to kill before she was expected to be out of recovery and in her room (turned out to be two hours), so I went out to my car (hot, hot, hot!) and laid down for half an hour. A couple of hours after she'd gotten settled in her room, I drove 30 minutes back to her house because I had to sleep or I was going to die, so I got a two hour nap and that was some of the best sleep I've ever had in my life. It was only two hours, but it felt like a full eight and I felt so much better after. But there's still the fact that I was only running on four hours of sleep. I went back to the hospital to visit with my brother, and then drove home. I'm so tired, I'm wired. At this point, I've had four hours of sleep in the past 48 hours and that's not. quite. enough. Anyways, there will be lots to do over the next week or so, and lots of visits to make, and lots of driving to do, and lots of little sleep, I'm sure. 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