What would Alice Toklas have to say?

Saw this earlier today on CNN on the web and it amuses me no end. Who would have thought?

AND is this not Kosher for Passover only for Ashkenazic Jews or for Sephardi as well?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070328/od_nm/marijuana_dc;_ylt=Ahsn3822kKp8uU9r1iVP8IbMWM0F

Mentally, physically and emotionally tired......

It's been a very long day and I am toast.

I don't know how many patients I saw today. It was somewhere north of 25. And that just in the office.

One lady is overdue and will need to be induced soon if she doesn't do this on her own. I had a man in his mid 90's, whose wife is almost 30 years his junior and his health is slowly, but surely failing. I tried to discuss advanced directives with them today (ie. a clear guide from them with regard to resuscitation, should he have a heart attack or a stroke) and I suspect I succeeded in annoying him and unnerving her. I tried to return the call that came in from his daughter who called after they left my office, only to find that she left her work number and not her home. She was long gone from work by the time I had time to return her call.

I have some mixed feeling about going home. I need to sleep, but my husband has been, well, volatile. The man is a Luddite and should not be allowed anywhere near a computer. He was fighting with his machine last night over a problem with his security settings and new program he had downloaded to create PDF files he needs for filing legal documents with the court. (Not a trivial thing for a man who makes his living at the law. However, he called me literally screaming out of frustration at his computer and I do not deal well with him coming completely unglued and yelling at me for something I have no control over and in reality, had nothing to do with.

I decided on the way home to stop at Safeway and get him some cookies for his sweet tooth and some Sambuca to mellow him out. He was considerably calmer when I walked thru the door, but still tense. I handed him a glass of the liqueur and rather than take it and say "thank you", he glared at me and cocked his head at the coffee table, for me to put the drink down. He thought he had solved the problem. And that was it. No apology for taking things out on me. No acknowledgment of what angst he may have caused me. Nothing.

I confided in a dear friend this evening who knows us both well, how I was having mixed feelings about what happened last night and about going home tonight because of it. She said she had spoken briefly with him on the phone earlier and that he'd acknowledged to her at least he'd not handled things well last night. T'would be nice if he could say that to me. Might make me feel somewhat better.

cross-posting of my comment on high fructose corn syrup, from a friend's journal

An opportunity to bash high fructose corn syrup - YAY!

This stuff is evil! I know this is off the thread here, and I'm likely preaching to the choir, BUT didja know the stuff is highly linked to both gout and kidney stones? I was at a continuing medical education conference last year, where I found out that in gout susceptable people, HFCS raises uric acid levels, causing both an increase in gouty attacks as well as renal stones. Trust me, neither of these are things y'all want to experience first hand. I've had more men presenting to my office with gout in the past 6-7 years than I had seen in the previous 15. AND everyone of them that has cut HFCS out of their diets have not had an attack since.

Why is this stuff even legal? Once again another example of Caveat Emptor in the American marketplace.