no more, no less

Buddy Holly at the Apollo

2009-07-11T09:06:00.000-09:00

Largest Urban Solar Power Facility in the Country?

2009-07-11T07:34:00.001-09:00

http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/politics/2009/07/10/new-economy-same-old-city-stealth-tactics

two days to tues day

2009-04-13T02:57:00.002-09:00

04.12.09

do you believe it?
do... you... fucking believe it!?!
we are here.

In two days... we'll still be here.
But there
in the crowds, just beyond those clouds
blowing funny shapes
for the silly prime mates.

To gaze or stare
or let loose that burden to bare.
To learn and teach
To teach and learn.
To love and touch
it's never too much.

Abruzzo's uprising,
yet we are still
up and rising.
hour to hour. second to fucking millisecond.
Let ours create
days that sing, and nights that moan.
Baby, I'm ready for you to come home.

2009-04-13T02:29:00.001-09:00

I’ll see your holstered silence
and raise you one.
Seven hundred and thirty days
when my soul was shunned.
You still don’t know?
It’s not supposed to be all hustle and flow.

Broadsided, not by my fist
nor a bus
nor an illusion of us.

Invincible illustration
lacking proper dictation
dedication.

We drift on in calmer tides.
Wet emerald moss on soggy
tattered
rafty
remains.
Drunken from a year at sea.
Is that an elephant in the billowy white looking down at me?

Illusion or confusion.
Gots to keep it movin’.
I heard about a place in Berlin, where it’s ok to raise children.

You haven't heard?
mums the word.

Save your sympathy.
Humble yourself instead.

1900-0730: if all goes well

2009-03-28T14:30:00.007-09:00

1900-1915
get assignment
1915.01-1915.99
pray that everyone is stable
1916-2000
make sure everyone is alive and relatively happy
get report from out-going nurse
follow-up on immediate patient needs
2001-2045
review patient history, medications, labs, tests, x-rays, new orders, patient care plan
2046-2100
stock cart with supplies needed for the shift
2101-2245
full body assessments
1st round of med passes, stock rooms, change tubing as needed
2246-2250
make first pot of coffee
breathe
2255-0015
sit down at computer with a hot cup of coffee
chart Acuity (software they use that tells the bosses how much time each patient requires) (mandatory)
chart everything I did in the first four hours (also madatory)
0016-0100
check blood sugars and give insulin as needed
2nd round of med passes
0100-0115
make second pot of coffee
breathe
0115-0400
baths and wound care
0401-0500
replace tube feedings
replace IV bags
make sure everything is ready for the next shift
0501-0615
3rd round of med passes
2nd round of blood sugar tests
0616-0715
chart what I've done all night
prepare report for on-coming shift
0715-0730
give report
0731
breathe

It's just a matter of basic math

2009-03-28T14:00:00.003-09:00

12 hour shift-4 hours of menial work that has no relevance to patient care =8 hours for patient care

8 hours/8 patients=1 hour per patient

Cute!

2009-03-08T14:28:00.001-09:00

Ha! this kid makes me smile.

2009-03-03T14:23:00.001-10:00

Cat Power - I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)

2009-02-21T10:24:00.000-10:00

Brenda Fassie-Mpundulu

2009-02-20T09:55:00.000-10:00

Organizing for America

2009-01-17T22:17:00.000-10:00

2008-12-23T02:10:00.002-10:00

"Take Me Away Fast" Trailer from Leigh Iacobucci on Vimeo.

LaBlogotheque... Fucking awesome!

2008-11-20T21:19:00.003-10:00

I know I got a little carried away, but my lord...

newly discovered songs: for the lone transient lover and sinner in us all.

2008-10-23T19:58:00.003-09:00

Nina Simone- Ain't got no- I've got life

Nina Simone- House of the Rising Sun/Go to Hell

This Sunday: Get the best art coming out of chicago... on the cheap cheap.

2008-08-31T11:10:00.003-09:00

Poster Pile Up
On Sunday September 7th, Sonnenzimmer Art and Print Studio will hold a
one-day "blowout" sale of older posters and misprints. In an effort to
make room in our flat files, we'll be selling selected prints for just
$5 each.
Expect a relaxed Sunday afternoon with plenty of inexpensive art and
free entertainment provided by the local jazz trio featuring Jason
Roebke, Josh Berman, and Keefe Jackson.
We'll be opening our doors at 2 p.m. and closing at 7 p.m. Music starts
at 5 p.m. Feel free to bring along your beverage of choice. FFTBAYBOC!

Come on by and thanks for reading this.
Nick & Nadine

When: Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Where: Sonnenzimmer
3605 N Damen Rear Store
Chicago, IL 60618
773-248-9610
www.sonnenzimmer.com
(North East corner of Damen and Addison intersection)
What time: 2pm -7pm
Music: at 5pm, free; jazz trio featuring Jason Roebke, Josh Berman,
Keefe
Jackson

This Wednesday: hear great music!

2008-08-31T11:09:00.002-09:00

The powers of 10!

2008-08-30T08:00:00.005-09:00

I'm sure everyone has seen this at some point but what a great video! What can't America adopt the metric system??? cause we're dumdums.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

2008-08-29T06:53:00.001-09:00

Science is fun!

2008-08-27T08:44:00.002-09:00

I walked into my first class yesterday (chemistry) and was pleasantly surprised by the setting. I later found out that this new classroom/laboratory was created by my professor.. Charlie Abrams. This new lab is so so so very cool... completely interactive. No required books... only an online study guide. Class notes are written by charlie and downloaded to a website after each class. I especially enjoyed the last quote by R. Feynman. Atoms are just like humans! See.. chemistry is relevant to daily life! More pictures to come.

Fired Up!

2008-08-27T08:02:00.000-09:00

And here we go! I find myself exuberant over many current happenings, and this election is just one example. It's happening. It's changing for the better. I'm ready.

danke.

2008-08-21T20:17:00.001-09:00

breakfast in bed

2008-06-11T10:13:00.003-09:00

all paths...

2008-06-08T01:22:00.002-09:00

who comes up with the names for these anyway?

2008-06-08T01:15:00.001-09:00

drive away my heart-ida maria

2008-02-22T15:11:00.004-10:00

Thank you adam, for introducing me to this. I think I'm in love. and the video's are super too.

oh my god-ida maria

2008-02-04T17:17:00.001-10:00

A few images from a day in aurora

2007-08-11T11:48:00.001-09:00

Playin' ball and eating gelato with the boys.

2007-07-21T08:52:00.002-09:00

street art and lovers

2007-07-17T11:44:00.001-09:00

near and far

2007-07-17T08:06:00.001-09:00

being in sheba's company is like...

2007-05-30T20:23:00.000-09:00

a stellar explosion
(my version of the 'love is' comic strip)

chicken tortilla soup, first snowfall of the season

2006-10-12T09:48:00.000-09:00

2006-09-20T21:13:00.000-09:00

i heart youtube.

Interview - Eugene Jarecki

2006-09-17T09:48:00.000-09:00

I was looking for the '99 problems' video, but found this instead...

phish feat. jay-z in brooklyn. and in case you are wondering, no, i was not at this show, but i wish i had been...

Shame.

2006-09-15T06:30:00.000-09:00

also recommeded: ghetto rock and katrina clap video's
but what exactly is tantrumtv vol. 7?

Mos def getting arrested at the MTV VMA's on TANTRUMTV VOL 7

2006-09-04T13:33:00.000-09:00

M. Ward Chinese Translation

bundle of cuteness, aka tyler sue smith

2006-09-04T08:14:00.000-09:00

lots of love.

... and joe important writes:

2006-08-16T06:05:00.000-09:00

From the Notebook: Whole Foods
From time to time I can be seen writing frantically in my notebook. Sometimes its story ideas, sometimes its just random thoughts, and sometimes its 'on the spot' observations. The following is an example of the latter.

Whole Foods on a Sunday, what the fuck was I thinking? They ought to consider renaming this place the "Thunderdome." Yet despite its weekend insanity...here I am...amongst the super elite, super athletic, and super beautiful. I feel strange amidst the giant diamond and platinum wedding rings and the bluetooth headsets. I'm just a quasi-hipster in need of a few provisions. I suspect if I avoid making any sudden movements I will go unnoticed.

The patrons in this place certainly have me on edge. I wonder if they know that I don't use ogranic toothpaste and that on occassion, I have placed my copy of the NY Times in the trash can....not the recycling bin. I wonder if they can smell the caged veal on my breath?

I want a better cart. I am currently using some s0rt of half-cart. If the shit were to hit the fan with these granolas I would be some serious trouble. Perhaps if I had a cart drapped in razor wire with a leather-clad, tweaked-up biker named "the Hammer" standing guard over its contents while wielding a 2x4 of construction grade pine....then I might feel at ease.I think I am being followed by a Lincoln Park yuppie...he was fairly easy to spot....he's got an unlit Churchill in his mouth. I can't help but to think of what Carlin said, "sometimes a cigar is a cigar and sometimes it is a big brown dick." He is also sporting a bluetooth headset and a Polo golf visor. What a tool. Oh and he is wearing sunglasses....because the commercial lighting of a supermarket is really intense. I bet he cheats on his wife....with a woman younger than his daughter. Typical 7 series driver.

And of course there has been a changing of the guards. The competent bagger has decided to go on break. I get the girl that according to managment "just isn't working out." She is not very quick and she skillfully drops two cans of chicken stock on top of my loaf of fresh bread....she must know that I like it smooshed. One can only hope she will grossly over fill one of the bags....oh wait...she is putting a bottle of wine on top of the bread too...that was a close one, I was worried she might bag it separtely. Phew! That was close!
posted by Joe Important

water, the new oil?

2006-08-15T17:11:00.000-09:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4796909.stm

charlie eatin' some nuts.

2006-08-14T20:38:00.000-09:00

2006-08-14T20:34:00.000-09:00

thanks adam

2006-08-13T18:26:00.000-09:00

When a New York zoo put racism and scandal on show:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/10/news/zoo.php

some things never change

2006-08-10T19:36:00.000-09:00

did you know SSE is the abbreviation for soap suds enema? hahahaha... now you do :)

2006-06-27T11:28:00.000-09:00

oh, how i miss thee!

2006-06-01T22:00:00.000-09:00

wha? wha'cho lookin' at? these are my new specs, biatch!

2006-06-01T06:35:00.000-09:00

four down, two to go! congrat's kyle!!!

2006-05-30T18:08:00.000-09:00

keep on, keepin' on hombre

2006-05-26T16:32:00.000-09:00

will

2006-04-28T11:55:00.000-09:00

meghan bubble head.

2006-04-28T11:51:00.000-09:00

cathi bubbles, er, i mean snuggles.

2006-04-28T11:50:00.000-09:00

steve and lucia

2006-04-28T11:48:00.000-09:00

this is what ben looks like when ice cream is mentioned. do you see the twinkle?

2006-04-26T17:45:00.000-09:00

springtime, one

2006-04-16T13:38:00.000-09:00

for talib

2006-04-16T13:36:00.000-09:00

with adam, san diego, california. 12.30.2005

2006-04-16T13:26:00.000-09:00

smooch

2006-04-16T12:07:00.000-09:00

for meghan

2006-04-16T12:01:00.000-09:00

walking home, 04.14.2006

2006-04-16T11:58:00.000-09:00

iheartchicago

2006-04-15T20:47:00.000-09:00