I know, I know... I have been out of it for the last few days. Sorry. This week has been somewhat busy since we only have a 4 day work week. Yippee!! But that means that I am trying to cramp in more meetings into fewer days and get it all worked out. Joy. Can I please have that drink now?

So I have been following that Terri Schiavo case somewhat in the last few days. I spent some time on Yahoo posting comments regarding the case too. I am sorry; I am of the opinion that the government should stay out of our personal lives, and I am ashamed of her parents dragging Congress, the President, and the courts into it. It is out of selfishness that they are doing this. It has been 15 years since this poor woman has been on a version of life-support with the feeding tubes. If her parents were so sure that she could recover with therapy, then why didn't they start it themselves and pay for it? Or hell, why didn't they start teaching her how to eat and talk again themselves? You do the same thing with a baby...what is stopping them from doing it with Terri now? In my opinion, they are being very selfish about all of this. No parent wants their child to die before them, but there is a cutoff point. There is medical evidence of everything. If their faith is all that they claim it to be, then she should have been better by now. Sorry...haven't seen that happen. The current administration and Congress have taken away precious time from the things that truly matter: the national deficit, the soldiers that are still in Iraq, and our general safety among other things. There is no need for them to get involved in this. Sorry, even the judges are agreeing with this. Stupidity...that is the only word that works right now for it.

But I digress. The postings that I read on Yahoo had me cracking up like crazy. There are people calling Democrats Nazis, other calling conservatives and Republicans assholes and jerks (among other things); Jews being linked to the repeated appearance of this in the news; Jews controlling everything with this country; a larger plot by gays to win their marriage rights. Not once did I see someone actually willing to sit there and debate this logically. All the majority of us know about Terri is what we have seen in the news. We have not actually seen her in the hospice, watched her in person and seen the evidence for ourselves. We have seen videos taken by the parents of her "better" days. We hear the doctors discussing this, and I am sorry, I will take the word of a doctor over personal views of circumstances. But I do know one thing: If I am ever trapped in a hospital/hospice on life support and my partner is told that there is nothing more that can be done for me, please take me off and give me my liberty and freedom in death. I don't want to have my family/loved ones going through more anguish seeing me hooked up to tubes and wires. Hopefully I will die peacefully on the beach one day, but you never know. That is my living will.

I have a very short patience for people who don't do their own job. They just bitch about it and leave all the work for someone else to do. Monday I was so pissed when I worked the door. The person who was on it Friday bitched all day about not wanting to be at work, not wanting to work the door. There were so many problems that I had to fix...I was so mad. If you don't like it here, then find another job and let someone else work here!!! My god...I know plenty of people that would love to work for my company and can't because some idiot wants to take up the precious space bitching all the time.

But I do know one thing...if this air doesn't get fixed soon, I am going to pass out listening to dance remixes of Lara Fabian and my contacts will be stuck to dried husks of eye balls. Lovely picture, huh? 5pm is not going to come soon enough.  ¶ 3/23/2005 10:21:00 AM