Jessmiloo’s Neighborhood

It is very late at night and I'm just returning home from a night out. Tonight I went to a reading at a friend's house. The author is a Jesuit priest from Nigeria, who had his first short story (and second) published in The New Yorker, and a collection of stories coming out in a few weeks.

Here are the most surprising things I learned:
1. If you get a story accepted by The New Yorker they call to tell you
2. They also will fact-check the hell out of your story, which is kind of cool and fascinating

ohohohOHHAHahAHAHAHAHAhahAHAHA...

have I mentioned that I love the Onion?

So I was looking at this old profile of mine from classmates and came across this poem.  Made me chuckle.

School
high school
schmigh school
ain't no big thing

ding a ling
the doorbell ring

if i were forced to do it over again

i may have studied once or twice

i made it out

that's what counts

Friday Fill-Ins

Friday Fill-Ins #72

1. There is absolutely NO way you can get me to ride roller coaster!
2. Sunflowers reminds me that summer is almost here!
3. I cannot live without my lungs :)
   
4. Butter rice and a noodle restaurant in Chinatown that's recommended by Danny are two things I'd like to try.
5. When life hands you lemons be polite and say thank you. Hehe.
   
6. Christmas is my favorite childhood memory.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _____, tomorrow my plans include _____ and Sunday, I want to _____!

Friday's Feast

Appetizer
What is the nearest big city to your home?
Jakarta is only 10 minutes away from my place.

Soup
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how well do you keep secrets?
Take the quiz here. And here's my result:

You're a great secret keeper.
I should say, you're good at keeping secrets. You sure know how important secret keeping is. But sometimes you tend to spill some secrets either for your own sake, or for others. Maybe it's because you're concerned or you need to tell it to someone you know you can trust. Still, if you have decided to keep it, then you'll stick to it for life, and won't allow anyone to break through you. Awesome!!

Salad
Describe your hair (color, texture, length).
Dark brown (but highlighted), slightly wavy, soft, thin and waist-length.

Main Course
What kind of driver are you?  Courteous?  Aggressive?  Slow?
I don't drive.

Dessert
When was the last time you had a really bad week?
I can't remember. My life has been too flat lately...

Friday5.org

Hi guys,

For anyone that has been following this soap opera, my Uncle came out of the surgery at 5pm...so it ran from 7:30am to 5pm.  Can you imagine how tired the surgeon and staff must have been?  The first surgery my Uncle had, when he was brought into the city because of that incompetent small-hospital surgeon, was begun around 8pm and lasted into the wee hours of the morning.  She caused "severe injuries", we were told.  Well, trying to murder the poor man would be considered "severe", I would think.  *smile*

Anyways, he made it through and is now in ICU.  It just is up to him to survive.  Whether he has the strength left or not is yet to be seen, and as most people know, patients don't usually die in the Operating Room but during recovery.  His poor body has been through so much, and he even went into a deep depression while waiting to build up his strength for this second surgery (they gave him anti-depressants for that).  He still wasn't strong enough, but he hasn't been able to keep any food down for the past 4 days, didn't have the strength to walk anymore, and his legs and toes were beginning to have spasms and twitching.  They couldn't wait any longer.  But he made it through, the tough old man!  I just hope he recovers because the staff has been making us quite aware that the body can only take so much.  And he was weak to begin with, going into this second major surgery.  Apparently they stated that it was more complicated than they had anticipated.  Well, if you have bile leaking out into your body.....since the first repair surgery wasn't a COMPLETE success but they were just trying to give him time to gain his strength.....I can't imagine how many organs and body structures that bile could have damaged.  He was just slowly dying again, poor man.

Prayers would be appreciated.  He has quite a battle in front of him, and he may just want to go Home and be done with this world by now.  Who could blame him?  Remind me never to get gall stones...or ANY stones for that matter!   Actually, no surgeries would be a good idea all around!!!!  Lol.

Thanks for reading our little soap opera, and I'll let you know how it goes.  Thanks.