Show Me the Money!!!

Okay, so tomorrow I'm doing the beer run....baaahhh hahahahaaaa...should be a hoot and a half. I have visions of myself speeding along, exerting my athletic prowess (haaa!!), and chugging a beer as I round the corner...or maybe in the true "marathon" (all 2 miles of it!) style, I'll douse my head in a nice, crisp LakeFront beer. Aaahhh...delicious and refreshing. I'm guessing my beer run will turn into more of a beer stumble by the 4th "hydration station".

And after that, my next big excursion is the Aids Walk-Wisconsin at the end of Sept. Sooo....that's right, I need your money!!! :P Well, at least you can visit my AidsWalk page. And if you have any semblance of a heart, you can donate (feel the guilt...oh, it stings!!!) Or maybe even sign up to do one in your area. Or if you're in Wisco, you can join me! hoorah! Here's the link to my homepager: http://www.aidswalkwis.org/site/TR?px=1016821&pg=personal&fr_id=1040&s_tafId=1070
It's supposed to be all one chunk...apparently my blog page does not like cooperating. Anywhooza, check it out, yo!




Soles Helping Souls...rock on!

Ben, Stevie J, and Jillian!! This is a great picture...it makes me happy! I'm not sure Steve is so convinced of the whole little sister thing yet. 

Proud daddy!!!...and very frightened-looking child...haa haa...she looks horrified. "Holy hell, dad! You look like you need some sleep!" 

"Hey mom...what up?" 

So, this really isn't the greatest picture of Jillian. She kinda looks like she has rabies...a little foaming at the mouth goin on there. But she's really cute, I promise!! She's only a couple hours old here...give her a break.
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Wild and crazy. Whoa.

So, I didn't get arrested! Too bad, I know...The protest and everything went pretty well, I guess. I doubt they're gonna budge at all, but at least we were there. And they let two reps from our party speak at the meeting, so that was something.

Social activism aside, I'm goin' on a beer run!!! Seriously!!






WOOOOOOOO!! I'm really beyond excited. Okay, so I can't really afford it. But come on...I think it's totally worth it. They MAKE you drink...how lovely. And a t-shirt. I live for the t-shirts.

Goin' on a protest...

So, LVC....we're all about social justice. And here we go...


TO: Friends for Health Care Access in the City of Milwaukee
FROM: Barbara Horner-Ibler and the Health Care Access Task Force
DATE: June 5, 2006
RE: Our last opportunity to influence the Board of Regents, and
request a public hearing on this matter. THURSDAY, June 8, 2006.



Friends,

The Board of Regents will meet at UW-Milwaukee, at the Union on Kenwood
Boulevard at 10:30 AM on Thursday, June 8. This is our last
opportunity before the new affiliation agreement goes into effect (July
1, 2006) to influence the Board of Regents to stop this abandonment of
health care in the city of Milwaukee. As of July 1, the UW’s
30-year-old public program to provide care in the central city of
Milwaukee will become a private program, under the control of Aurora
Health Care. (Aurora has closed clinics and decreased providers in the
city of Milwaukee to the tune of a loss of 46,000 patient visits/year
from 112,000 visits in 1999 to 66,000 visits in 2005.) Turning over a
public program, whose express purpose was to take care of the poor in
the city of Milwaukee and give medical students an experience of caring
for patients in an urban setting, to a private corporation that has
demonstrated, not just a lack of commitment to the poor, but an active
withdrawal from the city of Milwaukee, we believe is unconscionable.
And so we ask for your help.

We need you on Thursday morning at a schedule of the following events:
9:00-9:15 AM Gather to ride a school bus from Cross Lutheran Church
(1821 N. 16th St.) to UW-Milwaukee, Student Union.
9:15 AM Bus departs from Cross.
9:30-10:15 AM Rally for Health Care Access on the steps of
UW-Milwaukee Union. Patients, medical students, political/community
leaders to speak.
10:15-10:30 AM If folks need to return to Cross Lutheran, the bus can
transport your back.
10:15-10:30 AM We would invite most folks to gather in the Board of
Regents meeting in the Union with signs protest their abandonment of
health care in the city.
10:30-11:15 AM Protesters/visitors will be present in the meeting
room with signs of protest.
11:30 AM Bus will depart from the Union at UW-Milwaukee to return
to Cross Lutheran Church.

Thank you for your help! We are convinced we can make a difference!



Sooo...anybody gonna be in Milwaukee and not doin' anything tomorrow morning??

All I gotsta say is, time to change the world...

Geh.

Today I'm pissed at the world. Why, you ask? Well, I'm not sure. I've been trying to pinpoint it. Maybe it was the bazillion people who kept coming into the clinic today complaining that they were really sick and out of medications, yet they've missed their last 3 appointments...hmmm, let's think about that for awhile. Or perhaps it's the stupid email we got from one of our supposed LVC "support committee" members attempting to make us feel bad for not attending a fundraising concert that he, of course!, attended. Oh, blow it out your ass. Then again, it could be the bitches at UW-Milwaukee who won't give me residency status so I can actually afford to take one class next fall. One class!! Come on, people, work with me here...PLEASE. AAARRGH! I'm so frustrated. And then the proverbial "man" took one of my favorite shows off the air. Now, I don't watch that much tv, but when I have my shows, I need to watch them. Don't get in my way, don't talk, or I'll yell at you. And I won't care if I hurt your feelings. Because IT'S MY SHOW. Roar.

It would just be nice to figure out what I'm doing in 3 months, to have something concrete. But seems like my life isn't about that right now, so why worry, right? Time to pull my head out of places it shouldn't be (seem to be telling myself this more and more lately)!

Everwood, the show they canned, had some great quotes; here's one of them that's particularly fitting right now:


"The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw: my inability to change.

I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels better somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be waiting out there. Chances are it could be even worse.

So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little.

When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really, really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again."


Not that I usually choose the road already travelled. I mean, I'm in Milwaukee, for the love of God....haa haaa.

A big thanks to Jamie, for bein supa fly :) and a hey-hey to everybody else...i miss you more than you know!!

peace.