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ikea stupor // 2002-04-01

thursday, which should have found me in c's car zooming up to canada, instead found me in a hospital waiting room waiting to find out the results of my stepfather's angiogram. rargh. it's so frustrating when someone you love dearly doesn't do anything to keep themselves well. this is his fifth angiogram, for christ's sake! it could have been much more complicated, but fortunately the cardiologist thought it would be better to do nothing than to try and clean all the gunk out. that makes me feel better, but my mom is so worried.

i took a picture of bill in his hospital bed while recovering with my holga. he was all hooked up to stuff in a hospital gown, pasty and tired. i hope it turns out well, because if it does, i'm going to blow it up nice and big and make sure he tacks it up on his wall so he sees a place he should never be again.

then (somehow, very appropriately), after the whole bill-in-the-hospital saga, my mom and i took a trip to ikea. god knows why i agreed to that. i did buy a few things that make me feel that much more complete:

• one 60's modern style lamp
• one 100-pack of tea lights
• two blue candles in glass jars (that i now realize smell like chewed up bubble gum)
• one package of wrapping ribbon in pretty reds, pinks, and oranges
• one french press coffee maker to keep at c's (!!!)
• some napkins as a gift for c

and now i'm back at work after four lovely, yet exhausting, days off, and tomorrow i have to tell someone they don't have a job anymore. bleh. i'm definitely not cut out for this place.

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