Hodge Podge in Packrat

Baby. Her waste of humanity mother lied to the guardian ad litem, claiming my mother taught Baby to cuss and abuses her! At the courthouse Baby was initially afraid to speak to my mom, although by the time they got home she was herself again. Our attorney doesn’t like the guardian ad litem either; he’s supposed to be there for Baby’s best interests, but he has shown a clear bias toward the piece of s–t mother. Even our attorney feels he’s not doing a proper job. I’ve been seething, and I still get mad at my brother for the mess he left us to handle. We always have to take the high road while drunken liars get what they want.

Dr. C. I worried about driving in the city to get to my appointment. It was my first time in months; when I drive to work I’m driving on a straight highway from one small town to another with rural area in between. My car has needed work since before I went to the hospital (I took it in this morning), and its woes kept my mind off my driving so that I did well.

Dr. C laughed off Dr. W’s concerns, speculating that his worries resulted from mine being an open wound (but barely - Dr. C thinks it’ll be completely healed in two weeks because it’s almost there), which he also saw for the first time. When I told Dr. C that Dr. W said I needed to be in a wheelchair he laughed and asked, “How long? Forever?” Dr. C’s biggest reaction came from my announcement (which I make to any and all) that I’m going to see U2!!!!! When I saw Dr. C last month and said I wanted to see them he agreed, “Oh, it would be awesome to see those guys!”

U2. Speaking of those awesome guys I booked my hotel yesterday. I’ll be staying next door to the arena. A shuttle can pick me up at the airport and take me to the hotel. My friend (I think I used to call him ED in my Open Diary) will be in Oregon on the dates I’ll be in St. Louis; he wanted to be a good friend and pick me up at the airport. I asked, “What’s your point? Why can’t you come to get me?”

I still have to book my flight, but everything seems to be falling right into place!

When U2 appeared on Jimmy Kimmel I recorded it, crying bitter tears because the tour sold out, but when I watched it again just the other day I cried again, happy for the added dates and the fact that I’m going!!!!

Wunderkind. I’m starting to wonder what she did while she temporarily handed my program. I think she found she couldn’t handle it so didn’t. I had asked about minutes to meetings and letters, but she didn’t bring any of them to me because she didn’t make a habit of checking both my email accounts, although my personal one is what I used in the beginning as a professional one, before our tribe had its own email addresses. The work email doesn’t like all servers so some mail can come only from the personal one, and I told her so, giving her my password and telling her what to watch for. She claimed she got busy in her job, which can and does happen, but the issue she first related to me she mentioned again months later. I know the same issue didn’t keep her THAT busy; she forgets that I handled her job before she got here. Younger Coyote Brother said he wondered, too, as he had specifically requested information about particular projects that she then didn’t provide.

S. S called my work phone in April. My phone shows that she listened to that message but didn’t tell me. On that I can understand that she didn’t know who he was; he didn’t identify himself because he likes to joke, pretending to be what we call “culture vultures”, but the caller ID clearly shows who called.

Not that that gets him off the hook. Had he been checking on me he wouldn’t have called my work phone in April; he would have known I just got home to recuperate. He has my cell phone number, which is the one he uses all the time except now.

Almost Famous. One of the national parks with whom we consult wants me to appear in a training video about last year’s lawsuit against a former superintendent. Only two of us attended the meetings and the sentencing hearing, so the current superintendent wants both of us involved. I said I would be happy to but that my being so quiet and retiring the interviewer will have to pry information out of me! haha

I said I’d be available any time except certain dates in September!!!