I have been so much less prolific in the posting lately. I am having so much more fun just reading other Voxes so please forgive me. I have had a bunch of stuff going on and am taking care of my dad's estate so by the time I get done doing paperwork for a few extra hours I just want to read and laugh. Or think. Or cry. That's where all of you come in .
Everybody hum the theme from the Golden Girls now.
Once it is all behind me I think I will be a little more able to compose complete thoughts. I play Kelli's trivia with Kevin every day but I have to sit across the room while he answers because he must think I'm going to steal his answers,lol! Without my glasses on I can't even see the workstation from across the room.
Gulliver doesn't have much time left so we spend many hours just taking care of his little boo boos and just playing and hugging on him. He is so happy and so loving but the inevitable is coming and it probably won't be too long. He's not sick. Just ancient. He is just a teetering poop machine but he makes us laugh so many times each day. He has been with me longer than Kevin. He can still sprint across the room for a cheeseburger or a twinkie,lol. People say not to give him stuff like that because they aren't good for him. At this point it is pretty moot since he has outlived his life expectancy by about 7 years already. I have to go back and forth to New York a few times to sell my dad's house and I am anxiety ridden just thinking about being away. It causes him so much stress when daddy is away because he will sit by the door for a week waiting for me. The warm weather has been so good for all of us. He and Tater follow us around outside and just smile and smile and smile.
So, I am distracted. Not disinterested. I will toss the periodic pic up or jot down something stupid or angry from time to time. But, when I can I will visit you at your place and leave my little jabs and sneers just for shits and giggles.
Carry on.
Okay, today was interesting at work. I work in a Hospital in Client and Community relations. I oversee the Hospital Gift shop and do fund-raising, run a youth mentoring program, do Red Cross Blood drives, and whatever else I am asked to do. I frequently wander around doing Good Will ambassadoring and meet and greet with patients and families and ELEVATE our staff by catching them doing good things and giving them free stuff. It's a blast but I am in many buildings everyday and meet many people in my travels. I had a meeting with my boss in the Vice Chancellor s's Office but he showed up an hour late. That was alright because I am being audited and was gathering paperwork so I killed that hour quickly. We have a meeting with an architect and our Cancer Clinic Administration to open a Cancer Specialty Shop there. He decided we better go to that conference room and test the equipment so we don't look like a-holes when we "represent" on Friday. He pushed buttons and things dropped from the ceiling and all manner of disturbing upper management shortcomings.
I got back to the main Hospital (there are 5 on our Campus and a College). There has been this woman milling around for so long we all know her by name. Well, it turns out that she is not a patient and her relative who was a patient left some time last week. She has been conning visitors and patients and living in the hospital. One day she has a patient wrist band, the next day she has a name tag that says "Visitor". I know we don't have a tag that says "resident" but that is what she decided to do. She has been living at the hospital for almost a month. She's a bit whacky and most needy much of the time but many folks are that I meet. They are usually going through tough stuff so we expect some bizarre behavior. So, Sue in the Gift Shop tells me that she thinks she is shoplifting stuff. Can I come over and watch her. "Sure, I really don't have much else to do (audit, cancer clinic, move storage rooms, plan trip to St.Louis, Albany, Boston and Houston) I'll be right there. I watched her put on 5 bracelets, stuff slippers and t-shirts into her tote bag (stolen also) I asked her to put the stuff up on the counter because somebody might get the wrong idea. She did. "I changed my mind. I'll just get this Bible". She did, she left. I followed her and asked how her brother was. "I don't know. Haven't seen him for a few days. He went to the Rehab Hospital on Monday last week". "What are you still doing here"? I haven't been feeling well".
Long story even longer... she has been living in various waiting rooms and pretending to be a patient one day and a visitor the next. She waits for other family members to fall asleep and then creeps across the floor and rummages through their purses and bags. I took her to our Patient Advocates Office and asked her to spill the beans and tell us what was going on. She needed help so we called a few shelters andThe Women's Mission, and a rehab, and 20 other places to try to get her out of the Hosptail Lobby and into a facility. Now, I am still trying to get work done and questioning families to see if anyone is missing stuff and trying to snatch things out of her bags and get them back to the Gift Shop, Cafeteria, and everywhere else she lifted stuff. She kept wandering off. She was on some heavy duty drugs of some kind and her talking was slurred. I found her four or five more times, arranged rides, lost her again, and then found her in the trauma unit trying to reach into a purse. I picked all her stuff up and took her back to the Adocates Office and I called the Hospital Police. We have more police than most large counties. We have 127 of our own Police Officers but the place has about 45,000 people milling around all day. They came and we talked and Kevin called and the long and short of it was that she asked the Police to driver her to Crystals for Hamburgers,lol. I had to go to 11 floors in four towers and tell all the ladies at each desk to watch for her return and call the PD is she shows back up. We got some dude on the phone to pick her up but he didn't know we had him on speaker phone so he yelled at her and siad "My car isn't registered and I don't have Insurance" and then he found out there were three officers listening so he hung up. Crap, is she going home with me? We called him back and promised they would give him a pass if he took her to the Ladies Mission. I live across the street from the Ladies Mission. I will find out tomorrow if she made it back to the hospital or if she discovered I live across the street. God bless her, I hope she finds a place to stay somewhere far from my little quiet life.
Here's the kicker...... this is the third time in four months we have had a resident like this so I am guessing it is happening eveywhere else also. They are so good at faking stuff, telling sad stories and getting people to give them money and clothes and food. If I am ever homeless and drug addicted I will go right to where I work. At least for the first month and then I'll go down the street to the next hospital.
Kevin
My store, my dog, my home.
I would pick him up all over again. Kevin is in the first shot. Brain and Brawn, hmmn, yes, that works for me. There is a bell tower for each county. I think there are 98 of them. They are really cool and right down the street from us. Kevin on the Rocks. That pesky world. Is it me or is that globe warming? A beautiful chartruese Willow Oak. They all have little protective signs on them. Are they rare or endangered? I have no comment on "The Negro Building" other than "Negro"? The flowers grow right out of the tree trunks. Neat.
I have had a full belly of Reality TV. I even watched The PussyCat Dolls! OMG! The lead chick is the sister of that wiper Jonathan Anton from "Blow Out". I just need a show that I can follow for one hour a week and I have found it in DIRT. I really like the crazy characters. I lived and worked in LA and had a store in the heart of the film business so I knew many "related people" and saw all kinds of shit that was tabloid worthy. Delta Burke hid in my store after she dyed her hair blond. She was probably being followed by the Paparazzi to get a pic of her eating stuff because it was when she was really beefy. Anyhow, the show moves and quickly. It is amusing and somewhat surreal. There are unusual characters with even more unusual relationships. I love Courtney Cox in this. They could not have picked a better Lucy Spiller. Don the photog is great and a bit nutty. They even kill people in this show. No four month build up. Whackkkk! They are dead! Cool. It is a fast watch. It is always over before I want it to be. There are many things that I like including the visuals, art direction, acting, story line Yaddah. But, I just love Courtney Cox. I hope she makes a killing on this. many people have never even seen the FX network. If you watch it I bet you like it. If you don't, you should.
I just watched "Dancing with the Stars" to see if Heather Mills leg would fall off. It didn't. Yay, I never have to watch it again. I am the Dancing Bear after all. But.............................Kevin and I both thought "Clever bitch, she's making Mr. McCartney look even more like a tool by being so brave and so honest". That girl is working her way into America's Hearts. She is going to own Paul McCartney's socks when this show is over. Anyhow, it's over and she didn't have to hop off so snaps to heather for getting some great press and making her ex look like a huge A_ _ Wipe.
OK, so Dateline has gone creepy and boy are they onto something. It is working so well that they have almost exclusively changed their format to show undercover stings of pediphiles. I am guessing that all other news is irrelevant and that this is the only thing going on. I am not an advocate of pediphiles. I view it as a mental disorder. I see it as one of the deepest, darkest problems a person could possibly possess. I am sure at some point in my long and tired life that I have run into one or two and not even known it. Cunning. Baffling. I have no comprehension of why it happens other than that it is more of a power issue than a truly sexual thing. The sexual thing is manifested by the illness and is acted out upon by those who are really the sickest.
Here's my problem. Because I see it as a mental illness I find it disgusting that it has become a sport to entice these people and then prosecute them rather than treat them. If you don't believe it is an illness then just examine the possibility for yourself. I know that I am incapable of this behavior. I know that I couldn't bring myself to act out that way. Yet every week or so Dateline has decided that for ratings they will entice, lure, decieve, and trap these sick people into acting out and then showing it to all of us as a spectator sport. Rabbi's, Police Officers, Teachers.... They have all been caught. To me it is like doing something nasty to somebody who is sick. Now, all of these people at some time must exhibit some sort of weirdness that somebody must recognize or spot. The people in their lives live in such denial that to me they are just as ill for not confronting their friends and family and offering help in dealing with this problem/illness. Instead of helping sick people they are paraded out and humiliated, enticed into acting out, and then destroyed publicly for the entire world to see.
What I find incredibly creepy is this group called "Perverted Justice". They are used by Dateline NBC to entice these people out of the Internet woodwork so they can be exploited as circus freaks and shamed for all the world to see. So they have this group of "selfless" individuals who sit at the computer all day trapping perverts. How? By pretending to be little kids, teenagers, etc.... To me they are just as creepy, sick, as the ones they trap, and maybe even a little more perverted than the perverts they are seeking. They sit on-line and troll chat rooms talking to pediphiles pretending to be little kids. How freaking perverted is that? They receive hundreds of naked pictures of mens genitals and tease back and forth with these people trying to lure them out of the shadows. There has to be some sort of illness involved in that practice. Maybe what they should be doing is identifying these people and then letting them know that they are not who they claim to be and that they can offer assistance to them. They could e-mail them websites that may have helplines, links to phsychiatric assistance, or even phone numbers to community based help programs. If they did that I could understand what they are doing. Instead, they stalk people, set them up and punish them for being mentally ill. They are just as disgusting to me as the perverts they claim to be tracking. If you look at the people doing this on Dateline they look just as creepy as the perverts they are bringing to justice. Remember, they sit and chat with these people and talk sexually with them making them act out. In concept what they are doing is good because they are keeping these people off the streets. But, how they are doing it is disgusting. It is not a sport. Can you imagine doing this with any other type of mental illness? How about locking drug addicts in a room full of heroin. Or mailing bottles of Vodka to Alcoholics. I am not defending the pediphiles. What they do and why is alien to me. But using them for sport and entertainment is just as bad. Dateline is just creeping me out. This illness is a difficult thing at best to even think about for most of us but using mentally ill people for entertainment is far sicker. There has to be an equally effective way to bring this problem to light. There should be a way to identify and treat these people rather than staging these awful little events for the rest of us to watch. Yes, like a car accident we watch but does watching stop car accidents? No. They are very proud to announce how much time each of them get for the crimes they commit. They never mention any form of treatment for these mentally ill people. They never cart them off to a phsychiatric facility for evaluation and treatment. Take them to jail and then let them loose on society once released. The problem is used for entertainment and not to help solve a terribly growing problem.
There are cultures all over the world where really old men are allowed to marry 13, 14, and even younger girls. Somehow that makes it alright. There are literally tens of millions of men all over the world married to girls in their early teens. Saudi Arabia is one of our "allies" and yet the men there routinely marry little girls. Some of these men are old enough to be these girls great grandfather's yet our government treats them like good friends and trusted world neighbors. The truth is that children should not be having sex. They especially shouldn't be having it with greasy old men. But we shouldn't accept it as "cultural" on one hand and sport on the other. It is wrong, should be treated, and shouldn't be used to entertain our twisted voyeuristic appetites. The host of the show takes great pleasure in reading the "chat logs" to the perverts to see how much he can make them squirm. There is little that could be sicker or more ill to me. Somebody taking such pleasure out of mentally torturing a mentally ill person must have a little bit of a problem himself. Back to power. Most of what is wrong in the world is about power. Political, religeous, sexual. These shows just reinforce that concept to me and make the people producing it every bit as sick as the guys they are doing this to. Perhaps offering treatment would prevent a few really awful things from happening in the future. The majority of these attacks on children are still done by family members, friends, neighbors. Open your eyes, watch your children, watch who they come in contact with but remember, these men will still be wandering around and acting out on these urges unless they are treated and monitored. There is a morbid curiosity about people that suffer from things that we don't comprehend but if you have children yourself then you need to best serve your own interests by making certain that these people are treated in addition to being punished. They just get statistically worse as time goes by and no matter how long you lock them up they will one day be free again to inflict these horrors on somebody elses kids. It is not entertaining to watch mentally ill people be used for ratings. The ones who work for Dateline and Perverted Justice are just as sick to me as the people they are exposing. They get the same pleasure out of what they do as the pediphiles do out of what they do. It is no less ruiness to a life, it does nothing to help "fix" the problem, and it is just icky that they have so much fun receiving naked pictures of pervets genitals for a living. The real victims are the families of the perverts. They are dragged through horrible legal difficulties and have their families destroyed mentally and financially. If they are not sick then how come they act out knowing what the consequences might be. Identify and treat. Monitor, and continue treating, but most of all watch your kids! If your 13 year old daughter is on-line e-mailing 40 year old men then perhaps you may have a few other issues to deal with in your home. If you are a pediphile please seek treatment. You know it will never be OK to do what you do. We need to make the treatment as accessible as the victims are or we will never stop hearing about these awful things happening. Perhaps Dateline could take some of their revenues and create programs to treat these sick individuals and pay for counseling for the victims. Of course they won't. It's all about money and ratings and they really don't give a rats ass about the potential victims of these crimes. And you people who enjoy pretending you are a 13 year old girl online while being a forty year old man might want to ask yourselves why you are enjoying recieving nude pictures of perverts penises. The more you chat back and forth with them, the more you have in common with them. You are just as perverted as the mentally ill people you stalk. You do it just the way they do. They however go to jail and you get paid for doing it. Offer these poor misguided people some help. If I ever find myself needing to sit at my computer while pretending to be a teenaged girl I will seek treatment immediately. It's a sickness. I don't like it but I truly think these people need help in addition to the punishment. They all know they will be punished. Do they all know they can seek help? Society must learn to protect its children. Knowing that so many of the people committing these offenses have been victims in the past makes it even sadder. Keep Nutty Uncle Fred away from the kids and they won't go on to molest other people's kids.
Is it me? Probably. I loves me some Christiane Amanpour. One of the finest Journalists going currently. I have always wondered what she looked like when she was a teenager. As an investigative Voxer I have uncovered the secret photos of Christiane just before her "Quince". Of course none of you know what I am talking about and I'm not going to bore anyone with the details. That's part of the intrigue of my Journalistic writing style. Always leave them wanting more. It's not hard to want more than this. Just thought this "Separate at Birth" couple was a good match. Carry on. Also....is it me or does American Idol suck hugely this year?
I want them all to lose, drop off the planet, and go away.
