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The City Clerk's Office mission is to build public trust and confidence in local government. Our primary services include administering the municipal election, managing the decision making process by supporting Council and committee meetings, making information accessible to the public while protecting privacy, providing leadership in matters of protocol, providing administrative support to Members of Council and their staff and processing registry and gaming licenses.
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Business Units
Corporate Information Management Services manages the City's information by providing leadership on information management policies and strategies, supporting City programs in their information management practices and ensuring appropriate public access to City records and information. The unit:
- receives and processes Freedom of Information requests for the City and manages responses to access appeals filed with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
- provides guidance to City staff in the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, and investigates privacy breaches
- through the City Archives, the unit preserves and makes accessible the archival records of the City and engages the community with public outreach activities and exhibits
Election Services manages and conducts municipal elections, by-elections, and questions on the ballot – also known as referendums.
As part of the election process, the unit:
- manages the filing and disclosure of candidates' financial statements
- administers the rebate program for contributions to municipal election campaign
The unit also manages issuing of lottery licences and other gaming services to eligible charitable, religious and non-profit organizations.
Strategic Protocol and External Relations provides direction and leadership in all aspects of protocol within the City. In addition, the unit:
- advances the policy goals of the City, Mayor, and Council by creating an environment for successful diplomacy and engagement with local, national and international dignitaries, while positioning Toronto as a world class city
- upholds and enhances the reputation of the City, Mayor, and Council in official functions, activities, celebrations and commemorations
- supports the Mayor's role as Chief Executive Officer and head of Council
Secretariat facilitates government decision-making by managing meetings of City Council and its committees, coordinating appointments of citizens and members of Council to committees and special purpose bodies, and providing easy public access to Council's decision-making processes and information. The unit maintains the Toronto Municipal Code and City bylaws for easy access by City officials, members of Council and the public. The unit also sends out planning and other public notices as mandated by legislation. Secretariat staff may act as commissioners of oath for City business.
Secretariat also provides services to the public that are mandated by the provincial government, including:
- issuing of marriage licences
- providing access to assessment rolls (property listings
- issuing burial permits
The unit also:
- administers wedding chamber bookings
- manages municipal clearance for liquor licences and coordinates polls for City divisions on matters of local interest, such as traffic calming and boulevard cafes
Strategic Integration and Excellence unit provides administrative, financial and information technology support to the Mayor's Office, City Councillor offices, accountability officers, and all units within the City Clerk's Office. The unit promotes accountability and compliance of these offices with Council approved policies and procedures.
As part of its financial support, the unit prepares the online disclosure of Councillors' expenses. Council reception staff are also part of the Strategic Integration and Excellence unit.
In addition, the unit provides strategic planning support to the City Clerk's Office. The unit receives and registers official correspondence and written complaints for the Office.


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CHICAGO — It's a short turnaround to today's matinee in the United Center after Friday night's overtime thriller in the shadow of the Gateway Arch. So neither the Blackhawks nor the St. Louis Blues skated Saturday. Good idea.
The off day was an opportunity for both teams to catch their breath before the new Madhouse on Madison goes off the deep end today looking for a fourth straight win in the series and a Chicago clincher.
So it's a pretty good time to step back in this space too and appreciate what the Blackhawks have been doing the last few years. It's amazing stuff.
For starters, Chicago is trying to become the first team to repeat as Stanley Cup champion since Detroit did it in 1997 and 1998. And if they do it, the Blackhawks would be the first three-time winner in the post-2000 era.
A first-round win over a 111-point St. Louis team would make Chicago a huge favorite in the next round over either Colorado or Minnesota and create a big path to another Western Conference final.
A quick study of the Blackhawks' last five playoff years yields some incredible numbers.
In Games One–Three of each series dating to 2010, the Blackhawks have a pedestrian record of 16-17. In Games Four–Seven, they are 24-6 — including 13-3 on the road.
In overtime, they are just 4-7 in Games One-Three. In Games Four-Seven, they are 9-2.
And here's a real cautionary tale for the Blues today: Under Joel Quenneville, Chicago is 8-1 in Game Six – and 6-0 when a series can be clinched.
"We're a competitive bunch. We're a proud bunch," Quenneville said here Saturday. "We find ways to overcome adversity … found a way to fight back but there's a lot of work still to be done in this series."
It's simple to see why. I call it Winning Time.
When you have players who thrive in the spotlight, good things happen. Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews have scored overtime goals in the last two games. Duncan Keith has been a stalwart on defense, Corey Crawford the same in goal.
"Sometimes it's about bounces," Toews said after Friday's game. "But for us, it's really about belief and working for those bounces."
"We feel we want to get better each and every game in the series," Quenneville said. "We've got guys who like to rise to the challenge in big games. They've proven that with their history. They get excited in that situation. That experience can really be beneficial."
Close Chicago observers say this series is much like last year's second-rounder with Detroit, which saw the Blackhawks fall into a 3-1 hole and need overtime in Game Seven to survive and advance.
"I definitely think so," winger Bryan Bickell, one of three players made available to the media, said Saturday. "I know we weren't playing good hockey in the first couple games of the Detroit series, but every game we were getting better and better. That Detroit series got us that spark and kind of carried us through the later rounds. We have the same feel now."
And the Blackhawks get a huge addition today with the return of defenseman Brent Seabrook, who sat out a three-game suspension for his vicious head shot on St. Louis captain David Backes in Game Two.
"I know we're amped up and I know our fans are going to be amped up," said Bickell.
The Blues are in quite a pickle. A month ago, Ryan Miller was 7-0-1 in his first eight games since coming from the Sabres, and St. Louis was poised to win the Presidents' Trophy. Then the Blues collapsed down the stretch to blow the Central Division and fell into the matchup with Chicago.
Miller has yet to have a lights-out game in this series. Now would sure be a good time. His summer free-agent bonanza might hang in the balance.
"We're probably gonna have to steal a game to bring this thing back," coach Ken Hitchcock said Saturday. "So he's gonna have to be part of the steal."
For the Blues, this series is following a stunningly similar pattern to their first-round collapse last year against the Los Angeles Kings.
St. Louis won the first two games of that set at home, just like it did here, and then dropped four straight. But the similarities are even more unbelievable. Consider the series rundowns:
• Game One: Alex Steen scored overtime winners in both series.
• Game Two: Barrett Jackman scored the game-winning goal in both, this year's coming in overtime.
• Game Three: The Blues outshot the Kings and Blackhawks by nine but lost both games by shutout.
• Game Four: The Blues blow a late 3-2 lead and lose, 4-3, to even the series.
• Game Five: Alex Pietrangelo scores the game-tying goal, his first of the playoffs, and gets assisted by Jaden Schwartz. But the Blues lose in OT, 3-2.
• Game Six: The Blues lost to the Kings, 2-1, and were eliminated.
That's downright eerie. Still, Hitchcock was upbeat about his team's challenge when he met with St. Louis beat writers Saturday.
"We have a chance to write our own legacy," Hitchcock said. "Everybody is probably writing, 'Here they go again. They're challenging the top teams, but can they get through the top teams?' Everybody is going to write that stuff.
"But we have a chance to write the message that you guys have to print, so it's in our control. It's not in 'what's going to get printed' control, it's in our control. And I want to see us embrace this. … We just can't keep pushing up against the wall. We've got a real opportunity to push through the wall here."
But when you study Chicago's recent history, there's a pretty good chance the Blues might be running into a wall and going nowhere.
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Many of you know our friend Elise Matthesen, longtime Minneapolis fan, musician, writer, and creator of art jewelry. Elise has been visiting us in Brooklyn, as she often does.
Late last night, at our apartment, she suffered a sudden impairment of vision accompanied by a strong and lateralized headache. Teresa called 911 and the three of us rode in the back of an ambulance to Lutheran Medical Center, where they're now saying they believe what happened to her was a small stroke.
She's still in the hospital; we don't know how long for. She's comfortable (if very tired) and seems unimpaired in speech or thought. In keeping with the usual hurry-up-and-wait hospital routine, we're waiting for word from the Real Doctor, which may come down this afternoon.
Needless to say, various plans for today and the rest of the week are up in the air and will continue to be up in the air until we know a bit more. We're posting this on Making Light on the theory that this is one of the best ways to get the news out to most of our and Elise's friends.
(I just showed the above to Elise—I'm actually at the hospital right now—and she cocked an eyebrow and growled "Add 'I Say Hi.'" She really is herself. More news as we have it.)
Please, send my love, and ping me if there is anything I can do.
Hi, Elise! Be well!
And thanks to P & T for taking good care of her.
Is there anything she would like to make her more comfortable? Phone calls, flowers, cards, anything. I'm in DC, but would love to let her know I am thinking of her or help you guys in any way possible.
Thank you for the update (and for mirroring it on livejournal), Patrick. All the best to Elise!
My best wishes, Elise!
Hey, Elise: don't do like that some more. Do something different and more fun, yah? Okay then.
(Translation for those who do not speak Scandosotan: my dear friend, I am concerned and hoping for much improvement for you *posthaste*. I send much love.)
P&T: thanks for letting us know. I know you didn't do the joyous caretaking hospital whirl because of all of us who would be grateful that you did. Still, doesn't mean we shouldn't say we're grateful that you're there on the ground handling things.
Much love to Elise, and indeed to Patrick and Teresa as well. I'm sure it was an unpleasant and upsetting experience all round.
Hey -- let me know if there's anything you need.
Thanks so much for the update - we saw Teresa's twitter update, last night, so we've been concerned for all of you.
Sending my very warmest wishes.
Best wishes to all of you.
Oh dear. Be well, Elise, and thanks, Patrick & Teresa, for getting her to the hospital and keeping us updated!
Ai! Sorry to hear this. Give Elise my love. Thank you, Patrick and Teresa for posting, and posting on LJ.
Bloody fucking HELL. Okay. What needs to be done, and when? Let me get my phone charged, and I'll be on call.
Much love to all of you, and could we just STOP with this sort of crap? 2011 is supposed to be a good year.
Yikes! Thanks for letting us know. I'll spread the word among the Minneapolis crowd that I'm plugged into, some of which own jewelry she created. Best wishes, Elise.
Oh dear. Be well, Elise; or at the very least, be better, soon!
And thank you, Patrick and Teresa, for letting us all know.
I am
1. So glad that you were there to help her
2. So glad that she is all right
3. So glad that everyone recognized that what was happening was serious and got her to the hospital.
Please keep us posted (if you can), and let us know if there's anything we can do!
Oh dear! Very glad she's in such good hands; many thanks to everyone who's made that happen, and wishes for a very speedy and uncomplicated recovery.
Eep. Sending healing thoughts to Elise.
Sending hopeful thoughts for a speedy recovery and a big hug. Also echoing thoughts above - if there's anything useful we can do/send, please let us know!
Elise, concern & love & good wishes your way; also, hi back :)
And I also wish extra spoons for all while dealing with all the hospital foo.
I'm with Starshadow @16.
I'll second Starshadow's numbered list . . . just what I was thinking!
Feel better!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Elise, you're in my thoughts. Get well!
Love, love, love, and good wishes galore to all three of you.
Oh, no! Good Thoughts for a quick and complete recovery, and thanks be to ghods for immediate treatment.
I also concur with Starshadow's list. Thank you, Patrick and Teresa.
Oh hell.
Patrick & Teresa, thank you for telling us what's going on. Please give Elise my love and let her know I'm thinking of her.
Best of luck! And yes, it's good to have friends who are not only caring, but clueful!
Another echo of Starshadow's list. May all be as well as possible as quickly as possible.
Sending healing thoughts to Elise, and thanks to Teresa and Patrick for looking after her. You all deserve blessings.
Judging solely by what you're saying, TIA doesn't seem a bad bet.
If so, patience, care, drugs, and the likelihood of other attacks are on the horizon, but it's a rather bright one, all things considered.
Hope it goes well for her and you.
Elise, may it be something easily found and fixed (rather than a "hmmmm.... let's keep an eye on you" thing).
Patrick, Teresa, thank you.
thank you patrick and teresa for taking such good care of such a precious friend to so many!
sending love, strength and healing
I can't imagine anyone I'd rather have as advocates for me if I were suddenly taken to the hospital than P&T. So glad you were there for Elise, so glad that Elise is reasonably okay, and wishing for all further news to be good. I join the chorus of offering help (though it may be difficult from Seattle -- hot dishes don't arrive well even via FedEx).
Elise! I thought Minnesota left the not-healthy in the last decade!
Get better soon.
Healing thoughts and wishes
Elise--best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Teresa and Patrick--thank you.
Hi, Elise!
Even people you've barely met care. Here's to a speedy recovery!
Keep on keepin' on, Elise!
Healing thoughts to Elise! We've met once, but she won't remember me.
Love, hugs, good warm thoughts and more hugs. And what Mris said (#6).
- Bridget (the Toronto one).
Make that, even people you've never met care and are concerned! Best wishes and hopes, Clifton
Elise, you are in my thoughts and prayers for a complete (and uncomplicated) recovery. Teresa and Patrick too. Thank you.
Add me to the people sending Elise love and healing energy.
The Lioness must give herself time but be strong and well again.
I'm glad she had friends right there who knew precisely what to do in that situation.
*gulp* Hoping for a quick and full recovery...
Best wishes to her and I'm glad she got to the hospital quickly. Thanks for letting us know.
Elise! Oh no. All I can do is send my thoughts of healing and love, and echo what everyone else has said about everything, and P&T in particular. Oh, and a good thing it happened this week and not last week with the immediate blizzard aftermath.
May everyone breathe and heal, especially Elise!
Another member of the Hawai'i contingent sends you good thoughts.
No, no, this is NOT the way to begin the New Year.
My very best wishes to all three of you, and a special wish of good doctors and fast recovery to the Elise. Anybody who wants a hug from me should get one of the others to provide it by proxy, an it please you.
Thank you for breaking the news so gracefully, too.
Oi. Luck and good health to her; patience and fortitude to you guys,
(Am I allowed to say that here?)
Also, goddammit.
Give the Lioness my love, yo?
Oh, Elise! Best wishes and much love to you for a swift recovery.
*Yargh* and *phew* and get better soon and much gladness for tnh & patrick!
What Emma said.
Hugs all around, and I will keep my fingers crossed....
Ditto to everything written above.
(My little ones, on seeing my look of dismay, wish to send Elise healing kisses, and also say, "And take your medicine, and eat your vegetables!")
Damn. That stinks; I'm glad you all were on top of things and Teresa called EMS right then. I hope things go as well as ever they possibly can from here for you, Elise.
For everyone else here:
(Courtesy of the American Stroke Association)
Stroke Warning Signs:
Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
Sudden, severe headache with no known cause
Not all atrokes will demonstrate all these symptoms. If you, or someone near you shows these signs, call 911 (or whatever your EMS number is), and make a note of the time symptoms first appeared. There are medications which, if administered within 3 hours of onset, can greatly reduce the severity of stroke sequelae.
Sending love and healing energy to all three of you. Thanks P and T for your rapid loving response and being proxy caring presence for all who care for our Lionesse.
Sympathies to Elise.
Hugs to Elise and to the emergency response teams at the firehouse and at Making Light.
My good wishes for Elise, and thanks to P&T for taking care of this.
(Emma @52:
Shit yes, you're allowed to fucking swear like a God damned sailor in the cause of love around these parts.)
Gah! I hope you heal swiftly Lionesse!
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Gah! Elise, glad you're getting good care (and give 'em hell if you're not). Hope everything continues to head in the right direction.
Oh, no. Love to Elise and good thoughts to Elise. Thanks for posting, Patrick.
Sending good thoughts from Minneapolis; I saw this on Sarah M's LJ. Once you're home, Elise, let me know if Bob or I can be of assistance in any way.
Oh, what the fucking fuck. This is Not Right.
Give her a kiss for me.
Oh god.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, universe, for Elise being okay.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Nielsen Haydens, for being smart and responsible people who can recognize a serious medical problem and do something about it. I know you didn't do it for us, but I am thanking you anyway.
GoodThoughts being sent for a speedy and complete recovery!
Fidelio @57: UK equivalent:
Face -- is it lopsided; has it dropped on one side; is it under control?
Arms -- can they be held up and level; are they equally under control?
Speech -- is it slurred or confused; do they respond to questions sensibly?
Time -- if any of these aren't true: call 999/911 NOW.
I had cause to run these checks for somebody in the last six months and was very grateful that I did.
Gods. I'm local, and don't go to work until 4 PM; let me know if there's anything I can do.
Arkessian @70 That's a great mnemonic; I'll keep it in mind.
Everybody else: You'll notice that despite the differences between the two lists, they absolutely agree on the CALL EMS NOW bit (and I am shouting on purpose.)
Linking back to my A Fast Note on Strokes
I still need to write a big post on strokes (CVA).
The two take-away lessons:
1. Learn the signs and symptoms. If they appear, in you or someone around you, call 9-1-1 immediately.
2. Have a Living Will/someone with Power of Attorney for Healthcare for those occasions when you can't speak for yourself.
Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of neurological disability in the US. Be careful.
fidelio @72: I think it was on this very blog that I picked up the useful phrase, "If you're wondering whether you should call 911, stop wondering and start dialing."
Sympathies to Elise. Good wishes for a speedy, full recovery. And (echoing others here), thank goodness she was with people who noticed what was happening and knew the correct response.
Thank you fidelio @ 57, Arkessian @ 70 and of course James D. Macdonald @ 73 for the rapid-access info. on warning signs etc.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Agreed that it isn't the best way to start a new year. Here's to *this* being the low point.
Fidelio @ 72, Janet miles @74: If IN DOUBT, SHOUT for help.
I just saw this.
Best wishes for a complete recovery, Elise! And I'm so glad you're able to be with her.
Let me know if there's anything I could do to help. I could get right on the train in the morning if it would be useful.
The FAST mnemonic is for the Cincinnati Stroke Scale.
Any one is suspicious, the more you have the more likely the diagnosis.
Facial Droop
Normal: Both sides of face move equally
Abnormal: One side of face does not move at all
I usually say: "Smile. Show me your teeth." That makes checking for droop easy and obvious.
Arm Drift
Normal: Both arms move equally or not at all
Abnormal: One arm drifts compared to the other
I usually help the patient hold their arms straight out in front of them, then say "Close your eyes" and let go of their hands. And note what happens.
Normal: Patient uses correct words with no slurring
Abnormal: Slurred or inappropriate words or mute
I usually say, "Repeat after me: You can't teach an old dog new tricks." And note what happens.
That's it, fast, in and out. And note the time of onset.
Another scale is the Los Angeles Stroke Screen:
Age over 45? Yes/No
No prior history of seizure disorder? Yes/No
New onset of symptoms (within last 24 hours)? Yes/No
Patient was ambulatory at baseline (prior to event)? Yes/No
Blood Glucose between 60 and 400? Yes/No
Check for Facial Droop, Grip Strength, and Arm Drift: Defect on one side only? Yes/No
If the answer is "Yes" or "Unknown" to all questions, you have met the Los Angeles Pre-Hospital Stroke Screen. That's a CVA unless proved otherwise.
Then there's the ABCD method of assessing risk of stroke following a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack): sometimes called a "mini-stroke." The difference between a TIA and a full-bore CVA is that the TIA resolves spontaneously within 24 hours (and generally within 1 hour) of first onset.
The ABCD assessment:
A: Age of patient. Greater than or equal to 60, count one. Else, count zero.
B: Blood pressure: Systolic pressure greater than 140, and/or diastolic pressure greater than or equal to 90, count 1, else count zero.
C: Clinical features: Unilateral weakness, count two. Speech disturbance but no weakness, count one. Else, count zero.
D: Duration of the TIA: Greater than or equal to 60 minutes, count two. 10 to 59 minutes, count one. Less than 10 minutes, count zero.
A score of six yields a 30+% chance of major stroke within the next seven days.
(Note: Any TIA at all is associated with a 60% chance of stroke within the following 12 months.)
Eep! Do get well soon (and many thanks to those looking after you).
Good wishes, and at least Elise had the foresight to be with *NH when it happened.
Yikes! Glad to hear that she seems to be okay. Thinking good thoughts for her.
Best wishes for speedy healing to the Lioness! If there is anything that needs done in Mpls, Ed and I are always available.
Prayers going up on Elise's behalf. Strokes are scary.
Thank you for the assessment criteria, Jim.
Be well quickly, Lionlove! Flying is often contraindicated after a stroke, and so is traveling alone. If a ride home is needed, I have the comfy minivan. We can sing a LOT of songs between there and here...
Oh, bah. Get better immediately and unflinchingly, please.
I join in the eep!-ing, and the sending of good wishes to all concerned.
sending best full recovery wishes to you lioness!
And then you have the people like me, who had a stroke at age 33. Who did not have any visible symptoms during the actual stroke itself, and who has never had high blood pressure, ever (in fact, I have blood pressure so low that at times it freaks out health care providers). What I did have was a lot of numbness on the left side of the body. I was very, very lucky that it was a minor stroke, as I didn't go to the hospital at the time it happened. In fact, it wasn't until six months later when they saw the brain scan and informed me I'd had a stroke at some point in the past that I went "Oh. So that's what was going on that afternoon this past summer."
Which is why I tell people - if you think something isn't right with how you're feeling, or if you think something isn't right with how a friend or loved one is feeling, hie thee to a doctor.
Hi Elise. I hope you're home and healthy again soon.
Urk. Elise, when you get back to Mpls, let me know if I can be of service. My schedule is nothing if not flexible, especially where the Lioness is concerned. Sending you good thoughts and memories of sushi.
Janet, #74: "If you're wondering whether you should call 911, stop wondering and start dialing."
XthreadX to "dated tech" discussion -- notice that the term "dialing" is still perfectly idiomatic, even though rotary phones have been pretty well extinct for at least 20 years. This is doubtless confusing to ESL students.
Starshadow, #89: Some 8 or 9 years ago, I had an attack of temporary one-eye blindness. No other symptoms, it only lasted about 3 minutes, and there's been no recurrence -- but it scared the holy living hell out of me at the time. TIA was one of the things I was thinking about as it was happening, and if it hadn't cleared up so quickly I would have called 911.
My first comment here on ML and it wasn't supposed to be "Oh bleeping bleep of bleepetedly bleep!" but it is.
It's also filled with gratitude to P&T for being your wonderful selves, and of healing love to Elise.
My life is rearrangeable for the most part (and E would smack me if I rearranged that which isn't); please tell me how I can be useful.
Well, hell. Damn. Bad. Do not approve.
Elise, best wishes getting better.
P&T, thank you for taking care of Elise.
Please let me know immediately what I can do for you. We must always stand by our friends - Mike would want it that
Good thoughts being sent. Thank GOD(s) for the Nielsen Haydens! Love and blessings, Elise.
Elise: Best wishes for a fast, full and uneventful recovery!
Patrick and Teresa: HOORAY FOR RECOGNIZING THE SIGNS OF A STROKE AND DOING THE RIGHT THING PRONTO! Oh my God how I wish more people were like you!
All: hang in there. Prayers and good thoughts heading your way from Georgia.
And I say "Hi" right back. I would write her a haiku, if I thought it would inspire her to Get Well Real Soon.
I'm glad she was with you guys--I've seen you in action; you don't mess around with health stuff. I just hope you take care of yourselves while the hospital is taking care of Elise.
Best wishes to Elise. Hoping for the best.
Oh, no! Please, give my best wishes and affection to Elise - and, as others have said, I'm so glad that y'all were there to get her help!
GoodThoughts, candles lit.
Janet Mills #74:
fidelio @72: I think it was on this very blog that I picked up the useful phrase, "If you're wondering whether you should call 911, stop wondering and start dialing."
That was here, in 2006. Wonderful memory you have there.
Oh, E. I am so glad you chose not to visit us, because you may well have been on the train back when this happened! Being where you were, with the incomparable and capable Nielsen Haydens, is infinitely better. Good instincts... *bad* event. We're grateful that you are OK.
To Patrick and Teresa: please let me echo everyone else's accolades and appreciation. Thank you so much.
Many heal fast beams are coming your way, lioness, from your WELL pal, Mary Mackey
I spent about four hours with Elise this afternoon/evening; relieving Patrick, who is back with her now, watching Caprica, I believe. Her blood pressure is very low, and so they've had her "hanging upside down like a bat" for part of the day (the bed is positioned so that her feet are higher than her head). The MRI, MRA, and echocardiogram are scheduled for tomorrow; we'll know more then. Nevertheless, she's going to be in the hospital for somewhere between a "couple" and a "few" days.
Her speech and vision are normal, or very close to it; her sense of humor remains deplorable.
If people want to check in about visiting her (they only want two family members at a time in the stroke unit), feel free to email me (roadnotes at gmail dot com) or text me, if you have my number. I'm going to help with the visitor schedule, to take some of the burden off Patrick and Teresa.
Dang it! I hope she is much better soon and can get back to creating her lovely jewelry and spreading beauty throughout the world. We need it!
Tell her I said "Welcome to the club, sorry you're a member- I didn't issue the invitation. Recover quickly and fully."
Feel better soon, O Lioness.
Oh, do feel better soon, Elise!
Strong healing beams, Elise. Glad your sense of humor is intact!
First thought: Oh F*CK!
Second thought (after getting down the screen): Oh GOOD, she's not seriously damaged (right now: no guarantees what those tests will find).
Big warm hugs and thoughts of healing to the Queen of Shinies. I look fwd to again reading Elise's witty posts.
Just reading about this now. Get well soon, Elise!
I need to note for the record that while it's nice to see all these people praising Patrick and Teresa for quickly realizing what was going on, in fact when it happened Patrick had gone to sleep, leaving Teresa and Elise up late talking as they often do. All credit for quick thinking goes to them, not me.
Ok, look 2011. If this is the way you're going to behave, we're going to have to have a serious talk. Cut it the hell out.
Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery and no complications or lasting damage.
Love and prayers for Elise, great gratitude to P&T, and A Very Stern Warning to 2011: don't start that shit. We had quite enough trouble with 2010 misbehaving.
For a while, there were ads on the MBTA with the "FAST" criteria, which are particularly memorable because of "Bof fri fleu". I suspect anyone who rode the T regularly during that period can think of the signs of a stroke almost as easily as people who were kids watching US TV during a certain period can recite most of the Preamble to the Constitution....
Christopher, #117: Boy, that was a WTF moment. It's a very clear, concise description of stroke indicators with a little humor ("...and people remember funny songs!"), and he's bitching about the font and the artwork? What planet does he live on?
I hope the Lioness heals back to 100% as soon as humanly possible!
Patrick -
You did have the good sense to have her visiting, though. Being familiar with the ways of Elisian sleep cycles, chances that she'd be talking face to face with someone late at night would have been unlikely, so more complications in getting direct help as quickly.
If such things have to happen (and I'm with everyone who's pointed out to 2011 that really, no, stop it now) having it be at a time when someone is able to take quick and helpful action is a major good.
her sense of humor remains deplorable.
Good. I hope someone's reading Elise the deplorable puns currently on the Open Thread.
Patrick, thanks yous are not simply for being in at the start of an event or circumstance, but also for the continued presence/helping hand/company/etc while things continue. So learn to cope with thank yous.
Oh no! Hope it turns out to be a one-off event and that Elise recovers quickly.
~ helen-louise (baratron @ lj)
Deprecated protocol for greeting a new year, eh? All wishes for smooth, speedy, and thorough recovery, and kudos all 'round for swift & crisp handling of the situation.
If there's anything I can do, y'all know how to find me.
Hugs --
Oh shit. That is not the sort of news I wanted to hear. Elise, get well soon; there are a bunch of people out here who are pulling for you. And whoever should get the credit, Patrick and Teresa, thanks for being there and doing the necessary.
Oh, dear. Thanks for letting us know. Elise, wishing all the best for you!
May I add to the accumulating pile my very best wishes and love to Elise for a speedy and full recovery.
I'm thankful that it happened where people were there to care, and my best wishes towards a rapid recovery!
Best wishes for a quick recovery, Elise!
Shiiiii-- hope everything turns out okay. :(
New Zealand contingent (representative) rousing from usual stalk-mode to deliver deepest wishes for well and easy and full recovery and deepest respects to all involved.
A note: It is (nearly) Friday the 7th here, and I can attest from this point in your future(s) that things are just getting better and better!
Ouch! Just catching up with my daily blog reading. Tell Elise to get well! And if she needs anything when she gets back to Minneapolis, let us know.
Yikes! Best wishes, and hopes that it turns out to have been a TIA rather than a full-on stroke.
Just for clarification: a quick scan of google results suggests that "Bof fri fleu" is supposed to be French for "call my son", but both Google Translate and Babelfish choke on it. What is it actually?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Oh Hell. Elise m'dear, get better, eh?
Elise - Here's hoping you have a swift and complete recovery. My good wishes and prayers are with you.
Teresa and Patrick - Thanks for being there for Elise.
Ann Totusek @ 107 - Well met, Sister Merry Tarry! You OK now? - Grania
Oh. Best wishes and good luck, and a fast and full recovery, to Elise.
Please convey my greetings and good wishes to Elise, and tell her if she needs anything in Minneapolis I'd be happy to help, k? (I'm even temporarily car-enabled.)
And I'll add another set of thanks to the pile of thanks for Teresa and Patrick!
P.S. "Happy to help" is not just a formula in this case. I would indeed be happy about being helpful to the Elise we all care for.
One more voice echoing all of the above. Best wishes for speedy recovery.
Thanks for letting us know, and please keep us posted. If she's bored or lonely & wants visitors in hospital, my subway card stands at the ready. Really! I like visiting hospitals! Just let me know where she is, and what's a good time.
@ Grania- I'd had a stroke by the time you met me at Pennsic....if you couldn't tell, I guess that means I recovered well. :) I managed to get my nursing degree AFTER I had the stroke. Sister Merry Tarry
Am in NYC today and tomorrow. Was going to surprise Patrick and T when visiting Holt/First Second tomorrow. Guess not.
If Elise is visitable, would love to visit. Otherwise, just give her major hugs from me.
Tell her: "Sheesh, girl, don't go scaring us that way!"
Candle lit to Brighid, now invoking Julian of Norwich:
"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
Healing energy on its way, Elise -- and strength to Patrick and Teresa.
Can someone reboot 2011? I don't think the happy fun module loaded correctly.
(best wishes to Elise for a speedy recovery!)
Love and prayers, Elise -- for you, for T & P, and for the medical staff in the stroke unit.
Please keep us informed.
David Harmon (#133): going by the video versions of that PSA, it's Strokelish[1] for "The sky is blue."
[1] Like Simlish, but much less amusing.
#147 looks like SPAM to me.
I would not visit the link in #147 with a Republican's computer. The same text and link also appears on a poker blog.
Best wishes of wellness to Elise.
(And 'thank you' to Patrick & Teresa & helpers.)
me too
Tinyurl.com has a preview feature, which says it's at a long ugly URL at online.titanpoker.com
Michael Wallis Says "Hi!" back, even though she likely doesn't remember me.
Here's to everything going well and smoothly with today's tests. Love to Elise and the entire team of friends keeping a close eye on her in the hospital.
Count me among those who are ready to turn 2011 in for another year when it comes to health and well-being. It terms of the things I've heard about and experienced in these first six days, it's off to a utterly dreadful start.
I hope Elise is All Better Soonest. And thanks to Patrick and Teresa for being there. If and when I ever temporarily keel over, I really should do it at their place. The only thing better than that would be being at their place and not keeling over.
My boss is in his mid-40s, and last fall he had a seizure. His wife took him to the hospital, they did a cat scan, found a brain tumor, and operated the next day. Fortunately it was benign, and not near anything critical; his only symptoms before the seizure had been a couple of days of headaches. Neither the tumor nor the surgery gave him any cognitive or motor damage that he's aware of, except that he wasn't allowed to do any intellectually stimulating activity for a week or two after the operation, even watching TV (though they did let him play banjo.)
I'm so grateful that we've got 21st century medicine, and that while the recent computer boom has mainly been about letting kids play video games about killing zombies and letting marketers try to sell dogfood online, it's also made tools like cat scanners and MRIs and all the things that it takes to do modern brain surgery instead of trepanning, and made them cheap enough our local hospitals have them. And it doesn't hurt that my boss and I work for what's left of a 19th century company that has what's left of late-20th-century health insurance.
Best wishes to Elise for a speedy recovery, and yay for prompt treatment!
@156: "he wasn't allowed to do any intellectually stimulating activity for a week or two after the operation"
I bet that's high on all our lists of medical instructions to be roundly ignored.
"even watching TV"
And that's just adding iatrogenic insult to iatrogenic injury.
he wasn't allowed to do any intellectually stimulating activity for a week or two after the operation, even watching TV (though they did let him play banjo.)
I'd like to say that is an unfair knock against banjos but I just can't.
I'd certainly argue about being told not to do intellectually intensive activity. And about the definition.
And if I just lay there with nothing to do, I'd probably be...thinking! Oh no!
Something like Tv is the best way I know to damp down my intellectual activity. In particular, the best way to do it for hours at a stretch.
To cross threads together just a bit -- I haven't done enough meditation to get to be any good at clearing my mind and keeping it idle for any amount of time. When I try, it counts as intellectually intensive activity!
Elise! Well, if you have to go through that, it sounds like you picked the very best company to do it in.
Best wishes to you and all. And now I am off with pericat to visit the complaints department and issue some stern kvetches about how they started our 2011. Can we have do-overs?
Thank heavens for good friends and swift effective medicine. Be well, Elise.
Echo #n of Starshadow's #16, from someone who doesn't know you, but wishes you well.
Elise, my heart is with you, wrapped in fine gold thread with tiny gemstones...
Having already hurled mass quantities of psychic healing energy at Elise, I now banish the ghost. Get lost, ghost! Or at least learn to spell!
(There must be a fragment of code that doesn't get deleted. Not good.)
It's a year later. I am still very grateful to all of you. Much love.
And we're still grateful that you're still with us, elise. Love back atcha, big time.
What Xopher Said.
Same here, Elise. *hugs*
Same here. *Hugs* also.
What they all said, Elise.
And not to belabor the point, but for anyone wandering by--fast response to a possible stroke matters. Let the experts decide if you're having one--or a heart attack, or any other dire thing ou might possibly be experiencing, but "don't want to make a fuss about". Please don't talk yourself out of that trip to the ER.
I'm so glad my mother visited one when she had her out-of-town heart attack.
Fast and efficient EMS. Your good friends the EMTs would rather be called a hundred times for something that turns out to be nothing much than miss a single Big One.
I missed making the comment on the day, but here it is, a bit belated: I'm still here. Yay!
On every visit to Brooklyn, I pass the ambulance that picked me up, or one of its sister ambulances, because they have a waiting spot very near P & T's place. Once a visit, I walk over to them and say thank you. It's nice. We share a cheerful moment. I'm not sure emergency medical people get enough moments of "Hi! I am a positive outcome! THANK YOU!" so I'm doing my bit to add to them.
And thanks to you guys for caring. Much love and luck for 2013.
Give 'em an extra wave from me, as someone who wouldn't have had the privilege of meeting you but for their good work.
Please don't close this thread again, Abi, because this is where I make my yearly gratitude post. It's coming up on the time again, and rereading this post and comments (and the following one) always reminds me of all the friends and acquaintances and EMTs and doctors and nurses who helped me make it through.
Thanks for re-opening the thread, Patrick. I hope to be here on the day proper with a gratitude post and much throwing of biodegradable sparkly confetti!
Meanwhile, everybody please remember the stroke signs, and the importance of calling RIGHT AWAY. Thanks! (See, Dr. Azhar? I'm still reminding people, and getting the word out, and so are my friends.)
Ah—I did not realize you were still doing that. I do apologize.
Hopefully the new system will keep this clean, even though the URL has clearly ended up on some lists of spam targets. Otherwise, I'll sort it out manually. Important stuff is important.
Yep, I'm still around. I've done it each year since it happened.
I will always be here, as long as I'm capable of posting and this place is here.
(I got confused for a minute though because you deleted your comment above, the one about intending to close the thread. I thought mods didn't delete comments on ML.)
I know you're still around; I didn't realize you were still doing this particular thing, is all.
I unpublished a bunch of spam business: pointers to dead stuff. We've long tended to do that after cleaning up the spam it pointed to. If you think the record is unclear because I unpublished that comment as part of it, I can certainly republish it.
I just don't want a living thread, one we value, to get clogged up with cruft about spam. It's disruptive.
It's been three years since Teresa dialed 911 because I was feeling very peculiar, for values of peculiar that turned out to equal having a stroke.
Thank you, Teresa. Thank you, Patrick. And thank you everybody else who helped, especially Dr. Salman Azhar and the people at Lutheran Medical Center, and the nice ambulance people. (I still go say hi to them every time I'm in town; I walk up with a big smile and say, "I came to say thank you; I'm a success story!" because I figure they might not hear that enough, and it's probably something you can't hear too many times.) And thank you to everybody here.
Love to all my Making Light people. Another year!
:raises a glass:
elise (180): Hooray!
elise at #180: YAY! I join my gratitude to yours.
And here's to more and better, and passing it forward.
Hooray! And may it be ever thus!
Yay, Elise! And yay Teresa!
My (professional) impression is that you're a good patient. May that skill languish unused for many years.
Glad you're still here, elise.
elise @180: Amen, and hurrah!
This is my annual celebration comment:
A smidgen over four years ago, I was visiting Patrick and Teresa, and I had a stroke. Because of a lot of quick-thinking and helpful people, I'm still around and still making art and conversation.
Thank you, Teresa, my favorite diagnosing editor and caller-of-911.
Thank you, Patrick, for help and comfort and bringing shows to watch.
Thank you, wonderful people in the ambulance for being so good and so quick with the blinkylights truck.
Thank you, Dr. Salman Azhar and everybody at Lutheran Medical Center.
Thank you, Juan, for everything.
And thank you to everybody at Making Light who wrote comments, sent good thoughts, emailed, and all. Every bit of it helped.
And I'm still here.
This is my annual celebration comment:
A smidgen over four years ago, I was visiting Patrick and Teresa, and I had a stroke. Because of a lot of quick-thinking and helpful people, I'm still around and still making art and conversation.
Thank you, Teresa, my favorite diagnosing editor and caller-of-911.
Thank you, Patrick, for help and comfort and bringing shows to watch.
Thank you, wonderful people in the ambulance for being so good and so quick with the blinkylights truck.
Thank you, Dr. Salman Azhar and everybody at Lutheran Medical Center.
Thank you, Juan, for everything.
And thank you to everybody at Making Light who wrote comments, sent good thoughts, emailed, and all. Every bit of it helped.
And I'm still here.
Oy, double posting.
Oh, well. Here, have some more celebratory virtual confetti sparkles.
Also, there's a four-part essay on art after the stroke which begins here:
The double-post means you're covered for next year.
Seeing the four consecutive ER-related comments in the sidebar had me worried for a moment.
Fear not!
And it was nice to see you recently.
elise: always nice to be reminded of an emergency which ended well!
I celebrate every year.
I'm reminded of Samuel Pepys, who had an operation for a kidney stone, and ever after mentioned March 26th in his diary as a personal holiday. (It was 1657. An operation of any kind was a pretty damned serious thing.)
Yup, me too: remembering Pepys celebrating the anniversaries of the day he was "cut of the stone".
Elise #191 I, for one, am glad you're still here.
For me, the date is 9 August 2010. Repeated three days later.
Oh, hey, I forgot to post on the day, and then meant to come back and make a post later, but it went right out of my silly ADD head...
... so this is a belated post saying I AM STILL HERE and also THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO HELPED, because you are excellent and wonderful.
Five years on, it looks like the main differences remaining that the stroke made are these: tears come a bit more easily to me, and something shifted in my perception that altered my art for the better. Pretty good outcome, really. And every time I'm in Patrick and Teresa's neighborhood, I go thank the people in the ambulance again where they wait down the street.
Hug your dear ones, and remember the stroke signs, and if you see them, don't hesitate. Call right away.
(Also I note that Avram said my double post last year had covered me for this year. Hee!)
I'm so glad you're still here, Elise!
Woo! SIX YEARS!
I forgot to post on the anniversary because I was all distracted by a quick flight to Chicago and back to deliver a big fancy necklace to its person, so consider this post back-dated a smidgen, OK?
I am still here, and I am glad of it, and I am still very grateful to everybody who helped. THANK YOU.
And Dr. Azhar, I am sure, would want me to remind people that there's a very short window of time in which the clot-busting drug can be given, so if you think there's something happening that might be a stroke, DO NOT WAIT. Thank you!
Congratulations Elsie! I hope you have many more opportunities to miss this anniversary because you're too busy living.
What Stefan said. (Only without the typo.)
In my emergency responder training this year we were shown this video and asked if we knew what was happening. Mine was the first hand up, because of Making Light. (Note the way the left side of her mouth is dragging.)
She made a full recovery, by the way.
elise, congratulations!
Congratulations, and still glad.
I have an older coworker who has been experiencing intermittent, unexplained dizziness. Her doc sent her to the ER, to no avail. She declines to follow up. My grabbing her and shaking her would be no help at all.
I am very very, very very very glad the *NHs were on hand that night, and was that really six years ago!?
Elise, I am very glad you're still here.
Abi @208: Curiously enough, several follow-up articles indicate that the actual diagnosis ended up being "migraine with aura", rather than stroke. Which shows how complicated neurological issues can be. But I'd certainly want someone with those symptoms to get competent medical attention immediately, because I'm certainly not qualified to distinguish between the two. I suspect even a physician lacking appropriate scans wouldn't be able to make that call.
My doctor was telling me about a similar situation where the person did close to everything wrong - survived, not a stroke, but I was having WTF moments while listening.
*rejoicing from Hoboken*
I'm a few days late here this year, because I was a little distracted by some focused efforts in keeping a case of bronchitis from turning into pneumonia (which we did, so yay for that). Anyhow, here is my annual YAY I MADE IT THROUGH THAT STROKE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYBODY WHO HELPED YAY comment.
So. Thank you all very much. Please continue to take good care of yourselves and of each other, and remember, if there are stroke symptoms, get medical help immediately, because time is of the essence.
Thanks, and love to all.
I'm glad you're still here!
Keep on keeping on -- glad to have this annual reminder.
Gute Gesundheit für die Löwin!
Hey, while I have you here: I used to follow you on LJ. When most people migrated from LJ to DW I lost track. Are you on DW? If not, do you have a blog or journal somewhere else?
Elise: I am also grateful for having gotten to "witness" that even through your-all's reports. Splendid object lesson in Timely Response to Ambiguous Medical Emergency. (Particularly in contrast to another acquaintance who, in similar circumstances, insisted on putting off responding and wound up losing a bunch of function.)
Yay Elise!
It's been another year, and I am still here, and still grateful to everybody who helped me stay here, both then and since. Love to you all.
(David, yes, I do have a Dreamwidth accountl. I'm elisem over there, like I used to be on LiveJournal. I haven't posted much, but that may change. I'm writing more lately; we'll see if the trend holds.)
(Also, rereading, I am reminded how much I like abi's #62, because yeah.)
Elise, I'm glad to hear you are still here.
Good to see you here!
I hope you're here for a good long while yet!
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Mexican Quesadilla[1] – Full Flavour Version
Preparation time: 1-4 hours depending on the level of medication that you're on.
Serves: Two not very hungry people or one hung-over and/or pregnant person
Degree of Difficulty: Easier than being in a long-term relationship, but harder than making a sandwich.
- Place a frozen margarita at arms length, because girls just wanna have fun!
- Start The Katering Show™ Mexicana Festiana playlist on Spotify![8]
- Preheat oven to a temperature that suits your appliance. Maybe it's 100 degrees; maybe it's 200, who knows? We're celebrity chefs, not psychic ballet dancers.
- Mash beans, tomatoes, onion and cumin together in a bowl.[9]
- Spoon mixture onto your tortillas and top with grated cheese; be sure to leave enough room to fold the tortilla over.
- Fold tortillas using a similar motion to the one you might make when you mime closing a book.
- Place on baking tray and brush with oil.
- Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until the tortillas and cheese are golden, like an angel with burnt hair.
- Remove from oven and top with a dollop of avocado, a dash of smugness, a scoop of salsa verde, and a sprig of coriander.
Bon Appetite! Or, as they say in Mexico, Ole!
[1] Pronounced Mexican 'Kay-Sah-Deeeee-a!'
[2] Pronounced 'Tort-eeeeeeee-a!'
[3] We used kidney beans, but feel free to use any beans that you're on a first name basis with.
[4] Pronounced 'queue-min' or 'koom-in', depending on the school you went to.
[5] You can buy pre-grated cheese, but, honestly, what's next? Frozen spinach? Whipped cream in a can? Store-bought flour? Come on, make an effort – get out the grater and start LIVING!
[6] Pronounced 'salsa verr-(as in derrrrr)- day'! Definition: Salsa verde is a green sauce and there are lots of recipes on the Internet about how to make it, which we absolutely did on another day.
[7] If you are one of those people whose palate can't abide coriander you can stop cooking now. You're done. You and your stupid freak taste buds are not welcome around these parts.
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Mexican Quesadillas[10] – FODMAP version
- 6 tortillas
- 2 cups brown rice (we used cooked)
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- 1 tsp of asafoetida[11]
- 1 calcium tablet, ground
- Mashed potato
- Green food dye
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- Make another frozen margarita. God knows you deserve it with what you and your loved ones have had to deal with over the years.
- Start the The Katering Show Mexicana Festiana Playlist™ on Spotify![12]
- Preheat your oven to a temperature.[13]
- Mix rice, chopped tomatoes and asafoetida together in a bowl.[14]
- Spread the mixture over your tortillas then sprinkle with your cheese substitute: a ground-up calcium tablet!
- Place tortillas on a baking tray. Brush with oil and place in your oven, microwave or fridge for 20 minutes.
- While the tortillas are incubating, add some green food dye to your mashed potato.[15]
- Dollop mash potato on top of your tortillas and, if you have the energy to make an effort, add a sprig of coriander as a garnish.
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It's about an hour to midnight of May 1st. That's when I pick up my laptop to write this. I'm not even sure how to craft it. There's just so many thoughts running through my mind.
Twelve years. That's how long I've known her. That's how long we've been friends. Twelve years. And I still remember what drew her to me. Tomboyish. Crazy. Much fierce. Plenty focused. Very stubborn. Very confident. Sprinter. Energetic. Amazing dancer. Voice that can bring down heaven. LOL
She's still all these and a little more. Well, a little less tomboy sha. She's a lovely young woman now.
Today, I open the book of remembrance for this girl who has been solid beside me for twelve years.
1. I remember how I was young with a bad case of inferiority complex. I did not think of myself as pretty or talented. May said to me "inner beauty is what is most important. And that's something you have." My self-esteem was boosted by that simple truth.
2. May is the reason I started writing. It was the second year of our friendship. She had written something. A play, I think. And I told myself, May can do it, then I can do it too.
3. May was the one person I got into trouble with the most in school. The teacher was gonna punish me for something, May had to be involved somehow. Directly or indirectly. Don't get it twisted. We served the punishments together. May was proof of 'your best friend would be right beside you in jail saying 'dang! We messed up!'"
4. May stuck up for me always. She has always protected me like her life depended on it. LOL. I kid you not. The number of times she came to my defense in secondary school? Countless. Even if I was wrong, she'd back me up in public then scold me in private.
5. May, my partner-in-sprints. I remember how by the end of our six years, we were the fastest sprinters in our house. We did all the sprints and relay races together. We really should go running sometime soon. Been forever.
6. May taught me that friendship is not a competition. It's about balancing each other out, accommodating flaws, celebrating strengths…
7. May never ever let a boy come between us. Funny how that's nearly always an issue between girls. But it was never something between us. Did we ever like the same guy at the same time? Probably not. I just know we never fought over a boy.
8. I remember when I had to go off to the university. That was the longest we were ever apart. It was crazy. When I lost touch with most people, May remained connected to my soul. A stubborn knot that would never loose.
9. When old friends complained they'd been abandoned, May simply waited for me. Like the watchmen would wait for the morning. And when I returned. We picked up where we left off. No drama. No serenre.
10. May has seen it all. My highs, my lows, my anger, my madness, everything. I remember the one major fight we had. I thought she said something hurtful about me behind my back and I did not speak to her for a long, long time. We made up. And that was the first and last time we ever had a fight that huge.
11. Ahh. May has never tired to listen to me talk. And if you know me well, then you know I LOVE to talk. Only a true friend will listen as attentively as she does.
12. May is my one in a million. My ride or die chic. My solid behind the scenes girl. My bird of the same feather. May is my best friend of twelve years. May is a year older today.
So for twelve years, you have been my friend. If we survived this far, then nothing can ever keep us apart. So yes, I posted on my blog about you as my birthday gift to you. And this better make you blush o. That your heart that you like to harden like akpu must melt today. Hehe. And like I told you, there's nowhere else I'd rather be in the world than right beside you at the auditions today. Yes, I love you enough to do the craziest things with you and for you.
Happy birthday babe. Like you love to say "we're growing old!"
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Why I Will Own A Private Jet When I Grow Up
When I grow up, I will own a private jet and it is not because I want to show off or because I want to feel like a superstar. It's simply because just like food, shelter, cars and clothes, private jets are no longer a luxury but a necessity in Nigeria. Keep your hairnet on, hear me out first.
Two weeks ago, I had to travel to Zaria from Lagos. I could have gone by road, but given the length of time the trip would take, I decided to go by air. I had a few things I needed to accomplish in Zaria before I would return to Abuja and I had too little time. Now, Zaria has no airport so it meant I had to fly to Kaduna and then make a road trip of at most an hour to get to Zaria. Not a problem, I could manage that.
My brother booked me an Arik flight to Kaduna that was earlier than the Aero flight (I always fly Aero. They have consistently been good to me) and so, I got set for the trip. The flight was for 2:00pm. I hate waiting, especially at the airport; so if I can help it, I never get to the airport more than an hour to my departure. Anyways, that lovely day, I got to the airport at about 12:00pm and told myself it was only a two hour wait so I would be fine. I got to the check-in counter and the lady told me my flight had been moved to 5:00pm. Shoot! I almost passed out. I looked at her and she had on a straight 'I don't care how you feel' look and said something about the airline sending out text messages to that effect. I sighed. If I'd gotten the text message, would I have shown up at the airport 5 hours before? Was the house in Lagos chasing me? Or did Lagos airport suddenly have free wi-fi?
Anyways, I went through the check-in processes and took a seat in the departure lounge. I slept, woke up, read Sally's E-book (which is really awesome btw. Sally writes the best stories. No wash. Follow her @moskedapages), slept some more and soon it was 5:00pm. Oh, might I add at this point that network sucked at the airport. I could neither make nor receive phone calls and BBM and Whatsapp were totally out of the question. All I could do was send text messages. And even those were delivered selectively. Plus the text message they supposedly sent out came in only a few minutes to 2:00pm. Sigh.
Oh well. I congratulated myself on the remarkable feat I'd accomplished- waiting at the airport for 5 hours without dying. Like I said, I hate waiting particularly when the wait is indefinite. I'd barely finished congratulating myself when they announced that the flight was moved to 6:30pm. Lawd! At this time, I was weak. Too weak to throw a fit. So I just sat and watched as people tried to start a fight with the officials. My dad had sent a driver to Kaduna airport to pick me up. When I saw the way things were going, I contacted him and told him to send the driver back. No point keeping someone waiting there indefinitely. Plus I'd met a family friend who was on the same flight and who was also going to continue to Zaria.
We didn't start boarding till 7:00pm, didn't get into Kaduna till about 8:30pm and somehow I didn't get home till about 10:00pm. And when I got home, here's what I had to say to myself. "If I had calmed down and jejely taken a bus, shebi I for reach house before 10:00pm?" Na wetin oyinbo people dey call 'more haste, less speed' na him be this one.
It's important for me to mention also that no flight at the Arik terminal that day was on schedule. At least not from the moment that I got there. I spent a total of 7 hours waiting for that flight and all their flights within that period were delayed.
Then only this week, my younger brother had to make the same trip and again we bought him the same Arik ticket. (We never learn abi?) He needed to go back on Monday and apparently that was the best flight option available. Arik moved the flight from 3:00pm to 2:00pm and eventually cancelled it. I think they said the Kaduna airport was shut down. He was asked to come the following day. Today, it rained and he had a few other logistics issues. The flight was for 2:00pm and he ended up getting to the airport just at about 2:00pm. They said they were done checking in and after much talk, they charged him N3,000 to get on the flight.
Here's where it gets interesting. The flight was not on schedule! They charged him 3,000 extra for a flight that wasn't even on ground yet! He eventually left Lagos at about 4:00pm and called me about an hour later to say they were in Jos. It was not even a direct flight. So imagine. Seeing that he was late and the flight was late too, shouldn't the two "latenesses" have cancelled each other out? Apparently not.
When I complained about Arik and kept praising Aero, a friend of mine told me it was because Aero had not shown me pepper before. I got to hear stories of 7 hour flight delays and 3 hour flight delays by my beloved Aero contractors and I was just weak.
So you see why I will own a private jet when I grow up? It's not effizy, only a necessity. Apparently, I can't trust Nigerian airlines to take me to my destinations in time and in safety so I might as well buy my own private so I do not miss important meetings when I grow up. And I know I will have lots of important meetings.
Yes, I'll also like to have a private jet so I can fly my family to wherever it is they want to go to and not have to worry about them missing important occasions.
P.S, I learnt an important lesson of recent about using images even from google, that's why there's no image for this post. I haven't bought my private jet yet otherwise I'd have posed with it and put the picture up. Beht soon enough sha
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Sunset at noon
I don't even know where to start. I'm having one of those waves of sadness that have become a part of my every day. Different waves. Sadness, hurt, anger and then back to sadness. Sometimes I forget to feel and I go about my routine. Then I remember and the waves come crashing over me again.
I remember when we first met. It was at Ifeoma's wedding. You instantly made a strong impression. You had too much energy, just like me. Yoppy, playful, happy, fun, exciting. The last born mischief syndrome ran in your blood so well. So yeah, we got along really well. I remember how you took Kachi and I to a stream to swim and my mum was totally freaked out. Everyone asked her to calm down, you were a really good swimmer so we were in a safe hands.
You gave me the very first cellphone I ever used. It was a tiny motorola but I was so excited to have it! I remember how we talked every other day after I returned to Zaria. You were that really cool cousin that I was always running my mouth to. I remember how your friends kept wondering who the girl was that you'd spend over an hour talking to on the phone all the time.
I remember how lots of time went by and somehow we drifted apart. I lost my phone and lost your contact so we were out of touch for a few years but you never left my heart for a minute. I remember finding your number and surprising you with a call on your birthday and you were totally shocked. I kept grinning like a monkey even though you couldn't see me. The joy and gratitude you carried in your voice made me happy too.
I remember the last time we saw. It was at Chinedu's wedding. We couldn't talk much coz you were running around so much but we managed to exchange pins and keep in touch for a bit till my phone crashed. I remember all the facebook messages. You always called me your baby…
It's not just that you left us but the manner in which you were snatched away that hurts like crazy. You were just 26 with so much to offer. Your departure hit us really hard. No one saw it coming at all.
Mum misses you, dad misses you, your siblings miss you, uncles and aunties, everyone! And I miss you. Ever so much! It's interesting that the first time I met you was at a sibling's wedding and the last time I saw you was also at a sibling's wedding. Anyways, you're gone now but I'm thankful that I had the opportunity to meet you and love you up close. You weren't a cousin in name only. You were blood, you were family and you rocked!
Our sun has set at noon. But we know that all will be well with us in time. The waves are gonna keep crashing over me for a long time to come and I'm sure it's same for everyone of us but little by little, one day after another, we'll get through them.
For you, my precious cousin. You'll forever be in my heart.
Good night Kay.
Fresh Babes and the need for the Roasted Yam Bill
The first time I ever ate roasted yam, it was B's idea. And I found that unusual. Here's why. He's the sophisticated kinda somebody. Cool, tush, fresh and formal. He eats with the standard fork and knife, unlike me that can eat anything with my hands. (Yes? Problem? I grew up in the north.) He mostly speaks clean fresh English, (I was stunned to hear him speak pidgin one day, then I got used to it.) I don't think he even owns a pair of jeans (I'm ready to be tackled after you read this B. Hehe.) Anyways, you get the picture. He's tush, I'm bush (But not all that bush o. Ehen.) Back to the point.
When he said lunch that day, I pictured a big or even medium sized restaurant, brightly lit, fully air-conditioned and with a smart-looking guard standing by the door to usher us in. (That was the sorta place we went to when we had our first lunch date.) So I was a little surprised when I found out that lunch was under a big umbrella, seated on a bench beside a make shift coal fire where yam and plantain were being roasted.
He promised me I would enjoy it and went ahead to "place our orders." When the yam and fish came, I sat staring for a few seconds and I watched him rinse his hands and begin to eat. B was eating with his hands in public? My eyes found a way to stay in their sockets and I followed suit. One portion of the yam and I was smitten. The sauce was great, the yam nicely done and I think I licked my fingers at the end of it. So yes, roasted yam made perfect sense and after that day, I was hooked. A number of times, I went to his office and we had the yam together. Eventually, I located a "joint" close to my office and became a regular until my joint was shut down.
Now here's the crux of the matter. A few weeks ago, the joint was re-opened but I was already hooked on indomie and egg, fried rice and chicken for lunch so I didn't visit it. Then today, I'd stayed glued to my laptop for so long, nothing I was doing was making sense anymore so I decided to go for lunch. The roasted yam felt like a very good idea so I strolled to my joint. I got there, placed my order and milled around the "Producers" alongside other consumers waiting to be served.
I noticed a "fresh" babe seated a little way off, waiting for goodness alone knew what but I could not be bothered. Just as I was about to be served, "fresh babe" stood up and walked towards us.
"Where's my yam?"
She spoke in this ajebo high pitched voice and I could not help but smile. Wetin ajebo dey find for our joint?
The girl serving told her to please be patient. Apparently she had forgotten about her and it wasn't surprising. There were too many people standing around the serving point. "Fresh babe" walked back to her seat like a princess. Her seat turned out to be beside me. In a few minutes, her yam was brought to her served in a plate. I was eating my yam with relish and minding my own business when I heard her speak again.
"Please bring me a fork"
A fork? For wetin na? na spaghetti she wan chop? Shuo!
I think the service girl looked surprised too but she went on to get the fork. Who eats roasted yam at a joint with a fork? I've never seen! The sweetness of the yam lies in being able to manipulate the yam in the sauce properly and corner the thing into your mouth. Then you chew happily, lick your fingers and know that it has gone down well. How can a fork do that for you?
When the girl returned with the fork, fresh babe asked
"Mimi, are you sure you washed this fork?"
Oluwa o! Kilode? Shebi she would not just carry the yam inside take away pack and go ni? Which one was the police interrogation na?
Mimi replied in the affirmative and walked away. I shook my head and continued eating my food but I was already writing the post in my head. I was so burnt! (not that burnt like that sha but burnt enough to write.) If B in all his tushness would eat roasted yam under the umbrella with his hands, who was this madam? Please! My joint is not for tush people to come and form biko!
Roasted yam is best enjoyed eaten with the ordinary hand. When you're done eating, you wash your hands and leave the joint and we will not judge. The only time we would judge is when like "fresh babe" you walk into our joint and decide to act all superior.
Infact, I'd like to write a memo for the National Assembly to pass a bill banning forks in all such joints. Who's with me?


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I just wanted to post a quick note for those of you that are interested in going to Queen City Conquest this year. In case you haven't heard, the deadline to register online is this coming Friday, 8/26. You save $5 by doing so, and it's the best way to guarantee that you get in to the games that you want.
QCC is a great con and I hope to see you folks there. http://live.queencityconquest.com/
As a final note, I'd like to offer a big thanks to Ken for leading the August Day of Fate for me. Unfortunately, I was unable to make it, but he was kind enough to take over for me. It was a pixel blasting fun session of Save Game, adding another to our diverse list of settings run at BFC events.
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So, about 1 year ago I started using Picasa, which is a freebie by Google, that allows photo editing, sharing, and organizing. Prior to this I used Corel Photo-Paint which is better at editing than Picasa, but was not very user friendly and not a freebie. I had wanted to start using Adobe Photoshop, but I just couldn't justify the price. Anyways, about a month into using Picasa, I discovered Picasa Web Albums, which allows web storage of photos (~1 GB) along with sharing (most photos on this blog come from a web album) and geocoding. The original photo quality can be maintained and any changes to the photo done within Picasa will be synched to the web. The photos should be extremely safe on Google servers because.....well... it's Google!! Currently I have 380 MB of my web storage, to upgrade my storage to 10 GB/year (which can be used as storage for any Google App) is just $20 USD/year. For this low price I think it's definitely worth it to use web albums, plus I can access them from anywhere as along as there's an internet connection. If you know of any better places to store photos, please leave a comment below.
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Backing Up My Photos To The Cloud: Picasa Web Albums
I'm sure that many of you out there have asked this question, "how should I back up my photos?" In the days of 2.0 MP cameras, I would back them up to CD(s), and as the resolution inched up toward 10.0 MP, this changed to DVD(s). It was a task that I didn't enjoy, sometimes Nero wouldn't work correctly, sometimes there would be a disk write error, and sometimes I just wasn't in the mood. Also, I was always worried that a computer crash and building fire would occur simultaneously (I'm really not that paranoid) and destroy any backups of my photos.
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Perspectives On Gold's "Parabolic" Catch-Up Phase
Lee Quaintance and Paul Brodsky
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Since 2007 our analysis has suggested the likelihood of economic outcomes that most have considered unlikely: significant and ongoing monetary inflation, policy-administered currency devaluation, substantial global price inflation, and an eventual change in how the forty year old global monetary system is structured. Most observers have viewed such outlooks as tail events – highly unlikely, unworthy of serious consideration or a long way off. We remain resolute, and believe last week's movements in Frankfurt and Washington towards perpetual quantitative easing confirmed and accelerated the validity of our outlook. A summary reiteration seems in order.
We all know QE began a few years ago in the US and UK with the first rounds of base money creation. This debt monetization came on the heels of Treasury's 2008 TARP bailout, ironically the broad recognition of a tail event – a credit crisis that had been quietly building for years. Since then, global central banks have been taking turns diluting their currencies through repeated base money issuance, devaluing one at a time against the others. While prices of goods and services bought on credit have since been soft, declining or rising only mildly to reflect the natural demand for credit; monetary inflation has pressured prices of unlevered items with inelastic global demand properties higher, most notably precious metals and natural resources.
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