Mots et images

And I waited in the waiting room feeling like shit and finally got in at like 1 am, so tired and full of drugs.

It was intern hour so a young doctor and a young nurse took me to my room, joking all the way through with their high-school level Spanish, and all was fun. They put me next to the door in the room, the doctor entered and we hear from inside the room "ah, would you look at what she was watching, our cheeky lady?", the nurse enters, he comes again and says "can you walk in?" and when I said "I think so", he left me there and went into the room.

My man the doctor had changed the channel on the tv and put on the porn channel. The 50 year old lady with whom I shared the room looked at me like "this is like this every day".

oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?

and we're still building them?

while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?

uh. okay then

So that’s comforting, but here’s the kicker: It was invented in 1983 by a man named Randall Rogers. The wikipedia article for the aerial saw mentions that following his death, the patent was sold to another company who holds it today. It does NOT mention how he died, but thankfully the Chicago Tribune has an archived article with this little nugget:

My mom shared that when she was a kid, a neighbour would give them chicken blood. It was usually a very cheap thing to buy, but hey, the Spanish 1950s and free food. She remembers that it was very similar to liver in taste and texture, and it was cooked the same.

So I now wonder how this opens the doors to Vampire Gastronomy. Can they eat this? Can they cook this? I asked my mom what she thought and she said that clearly, they can eat "sangre encebollada" (what she ate as a child), because it has onions and not garlic. And raised an interesting nuance: maybe vampires are affected by raw garlic, but cooked? If you fry it or boil it, can they eat it?

So according to my mom, vampires can cook coagulated blood and maybe, include garlic in their diet if it's cooked.

It's not the case in Spain anymore, we barely use "usted" (with old people and with important people, like the prime minister), but in France children still use "vous" with adults, meaning that if you grow up around certain adults, you will be an adult using "vous" with other adults in contexts where most adults just use "tu" (source: being an intrigued Spanish with a bunch of French people of ages 20 to 50 where some used "vous" and some didn't and the answer lied in "we were friends in school" "we are university friends"). "Vous" in French is used even in contexts where it doesn't make sense to be used in Spanish, like titles in fashion magazines or marketing ("Profitez de l'été avec X"). But that was also the case in Spanish a hundred years ago, so I'm guessing what's happening with that letter is just average courtesy.