A New Week

What a stressful week!

Work has been busy, I am still trying to recover from exams...and I was awaiting legal action for that last post! I guess I am lucky I am this blog's only reader!

I have been encountering a lot of hassles with formatting this--seem unable to shift my profile from the bottom of the page. I was going to cease the blog, then decided if I actually try something new and READ THE INSTRUCTIONS I may be able to fix it.

After spending a bunch of time building a list of good links I seem to have again deleted it! GRRRRR!

Hey check out this link--I have always loved impersonations--this one by Kevin Spacey (star of two cool movies THE USUAL SUSPECTS and K-PAX)

http://newsfly.org/media/kevin.spacey.htm

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QUEENSLAND HEALTH was exposed sometime ago in the media for 2 things

1) Having many excellent clinicians who are innovative in making the best of underresourcing

2) Having a cabal of 'managers' who in many cases were inept and/or corrupt.

Now that these two factors have been brought to light (traditionally the second group have been praised for the efforts of the first group) the spin-doctoring has begun.

Now much self-congratulation by the managers occurs, with claims being made such as "Together we are rebuilding Queensland Health." Those who have run the services into the ground have become its saviours it seems (a MESSIAH complex??)

This, combined with unbelievably bad sloganeering ("Our staff are our greatest resource" with warm hugs all around) paints a clear image in the minds of those that hear them. This image is reproduced below:

A Gross Way to Die

I have a fascination for urban legends. Even now that we have the INternet, people still fall for made-up "factual stories" which are little more than legends.

I have today included a link to THE reference site for urban legends. (www.snopes.com) A broad ange of stories...some fascinating, others educational... macabre, amusing, even chilling (I can't access the site after dark or I end up freaking myself out!) it is a site you HAVE to check out.

Keep it on your FAVOURITES list to refer to next time you receive a forwarded email marked as urgent with a bizarre story included...odds are the story will be listed on SNOPES!

In the meatime check out the story about the cabbage and bean man----YEEUCH!!! http://darwinawards.com/legends