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COMMENTS:
– Everything I said about “guilty pleasures” yesterday must’ve been heard somewhere. There were complications with the laser and I ended up sticking around until almost six. So it looks like, by the end of today, I might have racked up something almost equivalent to a forty-hour week.

COMMENTS:
– This Week: Guilty Please. But it’s not my fault! With Memorial Day approaching, one of our busiest doctors has taken the week off, with the net result that there’s been a whole lot less to do at clinic.

SHAMING THE STAINED TOBOGGAN

Cycle 1.
~5/20/90 – ~6/20/90

Detail Level: II
Interest Level: IV

There are only a couple details I clearly remember of this important, frenetic month. As the deal on our house was signed to paper, and I realized that leaving was inevitable, I was incredibly attached to Flint.

“Let me try to give a schematic plan, with just a few snapshots…because I’m sure I couldn’t summon up all of the magical millions of moments, and then headcreep, well, you might be disappointed that I’d left something out. 🙂 I assure you, I’m appreciative of it all.

COMMENTS:
– Yesterday I bore down at work and did all of the honest work to be done in an effort to count some hours, but in the end, I still left at 1:30. It remains to be seen how long I’ll be here today.

The following headlines made the front page of the Flint Journal‘s Sunday Edition this week, instead of a public housing debacle requiring immediate attention.

Get plenty of sunshine, doctor says
Fenton man is still a guy’s guy despite loss in contest

215 families are losing their housing subsidies they’ve already been promised due to mismanagement by the Flint Housing Commission (which does not even leave a phone number at which to be contacted).

Yesterday, I wrote that the “Republican party this day is perceived as active, robust, and muscular, as opposed to a Democratic party that is always on the retreat, entrenched in big cities surrounded by seas of red. At some point (because this is a democracy), if democrats are to win back the influence they’ve lost, they’re going to have to be seen as willing to fight for their constituencies.”

COMMENTS:
– Yesterday, in the end, was somewhat interesting. I got home from work. I finished The Man who Outgrew his Prison Cell, by Joe Loya. It is the first time I’ve read a piece of finished, extended prose by a friend, and I was struck repeatedly by the fact that I knew the voice behind the words.

Maybe this is a bit of a cop out of an opinion, but I don’t see what’s so complicated about the solution.

This situation: yes. I certainly agree. In short, the Democrats have been filibustring many of Bush’s judicial nominees (significantly, not as many as the Republicans filibustered among Clinton’s).

I’ve tried writing this post several times, but each time I start to hate the way it begins to sound.

Something I’m dealing with among all the other chaos in my life right now it trying to reconcile the choice to live… the willingness to go to great lengths to live… in a city I’ve been continually lambasting for the last eight years.