I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so
What I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are ...
2001-11-29 - 10:10 p.m.
Today was a slow day. Teaching went OK; we are in the home stretch now. I think I will be able to finish the syllabus early enough to spend some time reviewing. I hope I do. I like giving my students old finals to do before they see the real one. I am not convinced my students are really doing their homework even after I collected it the other day. Today when I was going over it no one could answer a simple question from it. The material we are covering now should be the type of thing they can do. We are simplifying expressions with radicals. It is purely mechanical; it requires no thinking on their part. It is one of the topics I think I teach particularly well too. My classes usually get these questions right on the final.
I also get to teach them some fun trivia about radicals. "Radical comes from the same greek word as Radish:" it means root. A radical is a root (solution) to a polynomial equation. Political extremists are called radicals because the Pythagoreans were shocked to discover that the square root of two aka radical two was irrational. That is it can't be written as a fraction. That is also why irrational means not logical. People took math seriously in the old days.
After school I called my father in the hospital and played online for a bit, not as long as usual. I wanted to get home so I could go to the hospital.
The plan was for me to wait for my mother to get home and take her car to the hospital, that way I wouldn't have to pay for parking. She was fairly late getting home but I wasn't worried. She called me around 5 to tell me that the car battery was dead. She had to call for a boost. She had left the headlights on. I just played online all afternoon.
When my mother came home I drove to the hospital. I know my way around there far too well. My father is still weak and in a bit of a daze. Events are running into each other. I know that can happen in the hospital. His mind is fine; I was able to have a nice talk about baseball and basketball with him. We complained a lot about the management of the Knicks and Mets. Then my father got tired and sent me home. I told him not to feel guilty about it. I did it all the time. Any time you think you can get some sleep in the hospital should be taken advantage of. The visitors are there to help you. If they aren't helping send them home.
I talked to the nurse and found that his doctor had been to see him tonight. That was good but I was disappointed that the nephrologist hadn't been there. They did take blood cultures ands he is going to have a CT scan but they don't know when. My sisters are upset more isn't being done but I understand that they have to take things one at a time. You can't just throw every test at him at once. Each test has risks involved. They need to figure out which tests he really needs.
I wasn't going to write another entry about my father's health but it looks like I have. Tomorrow I'll write about the Kennedys.
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