December 31, 2007

This has been a pretty good year, all-in-all, but the past month has been a bit of a bummer. I spent a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms. The most curious being the surgery waiting room at the UCLA hospital in Santa Monica. I sat and waited among many others, waiting for the contact phone to ring, calling us to the bedsides of those recovering from the surgery. There were the usual slick magazines lying about, the the most curious attraction was the tourist rack beside the phone desk. The brochures seemed to suggest that we were checked in at a fun place and dying to treat ourselves to the local attractions.

Outside the entrance to the hospital in the cold December, individuals, including many staff-attired, leaned against the building to grab a quick smoke.
Not a bad year, as I stated, but 2008 is going to be great.