10-27-2006 @11:05 PM
Hola Doctor Linda ~ I am glad Whitey is OK... sometimes when I see a friend on the street they ask how I am doing and I tell them I am still alive... then, they might look at me weird or expect something more from me... a testimony of some sort.
For some people, such as I, just being alive is a miracle and should never ever be taken from granted.. I am going to send this to my personal blog when I click 'Send' with this Email and see how it comes out, esp. if I get the picture with it.
Yeah.. I am still experimenting with stuff.. endless little experiments... ze olde trial-and-error method.
I am getting a lot of News online out these days and I guess I do qualify as an Internet Reporter. So much has been going on that it would take me too long to relate it here. When I get time... or better, make the time, I blog to my Online Journal. ~Love Ya... and I will get better...
P.S. I got hired on-call with the Salvation Army or Sally's today. I have not worked for them for a few years now, but it will always be my home away from home. I am still working part-time with In-Home Support Services for my friend, which is part light work and most of my paycheck goes towards my little rent here anyways, but I am not really making much of a living, though, I am staying alive.
I have been helping my ex-girlfriend's son some, mainly by taking him here and there, but it is getting to be a headache as she is bi-polar, has several years sober but still so so screwed up in the personality sector. I know why I left her 20 years ago.. I sometimes find it hard to believe that she use to actually be sexy to me... nowadays she is so sexless for a woman and a Christian fanatic.
P.S.S. CASA goes well, keeps on going and I wish I had someone else steady to help me conduct meetings, but being in a homeless shelter setting my attendees are not exactly regular members... So many come in-and-out... I am not complaining... The Shelter Manager, my old friend Larry Dayton, first came in as a client and he ran CASA Meetings for a few years. There is getting to be some history behind it and I will write what I can when time permits and my own inspiration drives me.
P.S.S.S. I re-formatted the font to make it look better... ok.. make it look prettier...Blessings and Prayers Sizzlin' Sista!
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Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,I just got back a couple days ago from the marine biology conference in Eilat (see picture below of the reef in front of the institute). It was great, I learned a lot, got a request to come back during winter and help with the instittue data management (yeah, twist my arm) and came back very tired.When I got back, the house was in order but I had several problems. One cat, Whitey, the one with the problem front leg I have been trying to heal, is nowhere to be found. I fear a dog got him, since he is unable to defend himself with a bad leg. One other cat, my giant ginger male (looks like Garfield, also very mello), also had a serious mouth infection and was in misery. I rushed him to the vet and he got fluids and a lot of antibiotics. He is gettiing well now and was able to eat this morning, joyfully I might add. (Neutered, his dinner dish is the center of his life....)At work, I was frantically trying to get a proposal done. But my colleagues had messed up. There needed to be some changes made in the one we submitted 1 October and my boss did not follow through, so it did not go in the review process, missing this deadline. On the one I was trying to finish, I had been misinformed, and we were not eligible, No more deadline! I don't think all the work went to waste, since we developed our ideas of what we want to do. There will be more grant options and we wil be ready for them. But it was a disappointment, and my boss is really embarrassed. From now on, I will have to check on things--I did a decade writing proposals about a quarter of my working time, and most of our guys are not at all used to this, getting money for their work from the governmental teat.So, back to normal plodding existence, although we do have one trip to the north on 1 November (annual organization meetiing) and my sister comes to visit at the end of November so I will take off a week to prowl around Jerusalem and Galilee. I have what to do in between, just not on deadlines.Winter comes, the rains have begun, and it has gotten cool. I have to lay in a supply of firewood, pull out the winter clothing and put away the summer. Judean Mountains get pretty chilly iin winter, so I invested in new boots, leather hat and a dress jacket for work. (I prefer fleeces, but the jacket does make a better impression, and I'm beginning late in life to realize that helps me to get done what I want to do. Stupid, but it works. Say the same thing in a suit and in jeans, and guess which gets the most attention and taken more serioiusly? Now can anybody explain to me WHY that is true, because I don't for the life of me understand it. Or maybe I do....I did fiinally figure out why women wear shoes with high heels. That has a good biological explanation. The heels force a woman to stand with her butt tight, her belly in and her tits out in order to keep in balance. Exaggerates desirable sexual features, in other words. Plus the tottering walk is a classical form of "handicapping" (like the peacock's tail, a handicap advertises a creature with health enough to sustain the handicap and still function). Makes sense, from the animal behavior point of view.I suppose the classy dress bit is a similar form of advertising--"I have money to buy this, I don't have to do manual labor, therefore I am successful. I am a potential mate or a potential leader. Therefore, listen to me because what I say may be important." Yep, that will work, especially with people who pay more attention to who is speaking than what is said. That covers a lot of people in government, anyway. One of these days I will figure out this system, but by then I will be a pensioner who can wear jeans and tennis shoes until I die.Guess that is it for now, besides I am making a big pot of chili to ward off the encroaching chill of early winter.shabbat shalom,Linda
Just a P.S. to my shabbat letter,
Whitey turned up with the first downpour this evening. Definitely worse for wear, but far from dead. I cleaned him up, put him to bed in the back room with a hot water bottle, and he stays back there a few days until he gets sorted out. Doesn't seem serious, but he's been on antibiotics and didn't get them for a week, so he's got a fever and runny nose, and his wound is inflamed again. Dumb cat was very happy to see me again, purring even as I wiped his snotty nose. When I didn't turn up for a few days, I guess he figured I was gone forever too. CATS!
Linda
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