Notes from the Cafe Fiasco

Monday, Monday

Too early

Monday morning

I and my urologist

go over the numbers --

cancer in the right 

hemisphere now.

And he goes through

all the current options

yet again.

Waiting, surgery, radiation.

None of them good.

An hour later,

sitting quietly

with the Buddhas

in the MFA

I manage to lightly

touch

the flicker of 

fear

that keeps

me going.

Supermarket Equity

While standing in line at the supermarket this evening, I took a look at the latest Boston Magazine on salaries.  According to them, Susan Hockfield, the President of MIT, makes approximately 15 times the amount of money that I do working for the same institution.

Of course, she has a Ph.D.  I only have a Masters degree.

Opening Ceremonies - 2010

I can't wait until the opening of the Olympics this weekend. I hear that the Canadians, not to be outdone by the Chinese, will have hundreds of Moose spelling out "Eh?" on the stadium field. I guess you work with what you got.

World Cancer Day

It's World Cancer Day.  Take your favorite Cancer Survivor to lunch.  (He said self-servingly).

Groundhog Day 2010

It's Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow. This means, of course, that we will have to endure 6 more weeks of Republicans whining about anything that Barak Obama does.