"Sickness, insanity and death were the black angels that guarded my cradle."

Saw the Munch exhibit in the Art Institute today, still shook up. Raw, graphic, couldn't bear to look yet couldn't turn away..All those dead faces, empty eyes, agonizing corpses crowding the canvas. I saw death and dying, but never like that. The insanity, the decay, and the excruciating AWARENESS of the LIVING dead. Not even so much the paintings but the etchings -- he's not the greatest colorist from what I saw..These etchings are keeping me up tonight..

last week, over, thank God..

Spent 3 days in hell. Ambulance chase, ER. 3 days in a hospital watching my tiny 3 year old tortured by all kinds of medical devises and crying my head off with her. Back home now, both skinny and tired and mad at the world. Vacation cancelled. Sleep.

05:19 pm: misc

1. Found in a patients chart today under "behavioral": "Needy, sometimes nasty". Same chart, therapy notes/diagnosis: "Colon surgery with a rectal pouch". YOU THINK ??..
2. Had to attend a big multi-state corporate seminar on "Medicare entitlement". I never saw so many fat middle-age women sporting bad hair, green skin and horrific pant suits in one banquett hall. Note to self -- quit the desk job before its too late.
3. I'm being cyber stalked by crude, pushy, delightfully uncomplicated yet thoroughly unpleasant israelies. ..Brrr...PS PIONERY, IDITE V ZHOPY !
4. Called to book an appointment with a pediatric GI doc, got following directions from the clerk (was spelled out in a dead-serious voice): "Come up to the 3rd floor, step on the red carpet and look for the GREEN FROG". When I asked if I should kiss it then -- silence followed..
5. Went through Fresh Farms for half hour with a polar bear sticker on my butt thanks to Nika.. And I just thought these jeans fit me really well..Damn. Well they do, anyway :)