a short entry, for once
I got into the community-service group I wanted to be in, so yesterday I was at the Veterans' Hospital volunteering...
Old guy who's paralyzed on one side of the body and sort of flails around and needs help with everything: "Could you butter my bread for me?"
Me: "Oh, of course!"
Old guy (while I'm doing this): "I need to tell you something."
Me: "Hmm?"
Old guy: "You sure have a lovely bottom."
Me: (awkward laughter)
Old guy: "Can I touch it?"
Me: "What?!"
Old guy: "Can I touch it?"
Me (trying to smile): "No, I don't think so."
Old guy: "Oh, come on."
Apparently I can't get any play from even the dorkiest of computer-science students here, but if I wanted to sleep with an 80-year-old who can barely eat without help, I'm in like flint.
I really hope I get into heaven. :)
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One cool thing about this hospital:
From Wikipedia: "The inspiration for Kesey's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest came from his work with Stanford University at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital on the night shift. Here, Kesey often spent much time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs that he volunteered to experiment with. Kesey believed that these patients were not insane, but that society had pushed them out because they did not fit the conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave. The novel was an immediate success and made into an award-winning movie in 1975."
So I, too, could get enough ideas to write a book that's so famous, Jack Nicholson plays the main character of the movie spin-off.
Old guy who's paralyzed on one side of the body and sort of flails around and needs help with everything: "Could you butter my bread for me?"
Me: "Oh, of course!"
Old guy (while I'm doing this): "I need to tell you something."
Me: "Hmm?"
Old guy: "You sure have a lovely bottom."
Me: (awkward laughter)
Old guy: "Can I touch it?"
Me: "What?!"
Old guy: "Can I touch it?"
Me (trying to smile): "No, I don't think so."
Old guy: "Oh, come on."
Apparently I can't get any play from even the dorkiest of computer-science students here, but if I wanted to sleep with an 80-year-old who can barely eat without help, I'm in like flint.
I really hope I get into heaven. :)
***************************************************************************************
One cool thing about this hospital:
From Wikipedia: "The inspiration for Kesey's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest came from his work with Stanford University at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital on the night shift. Here, Kesey often spent much time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs that he volunteered to experiment with. Kesey believed that these patients were not insane, but that society had pushed them out because they did not fit the conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave. The novel was an immediate success and made into an award-winning movie in 1975."
So I, too, could get enough ideas to write a book that's so famous, Jack Nicholson plays the main character of the movie spin-off.