bizarre thanksgiving

i worked today. i will tomorrow, too. it's an attempt to make up some of the income i lost by going to sicily. working on holidays is actually quite nice. it's peaceful and quiet, and listeners are always happy to tell you how much the music means to them. gratitude is a big theme on thanksgiving, of course... people tend to be very generous with their thanks.

after i got off-air i went to a co-worker's house for dinner. except that when i arrived, she wasn't there. her family was, but she herself was in the hospital. turns out she had what she thought was a TIA (!) and she ended up taking herself to the emergency room. her family was in her kitchen, though, busily finishing the dinner she'd started.

she arrived a couple hours after we'd finished, with a diagnosis of transient global amnesia. we warmed up a plate of food for her and she recounted her tale -- she got into the shower at the two-minute warning at the end of the first half of a football game, and got a searing headache. she got out of the shower, downed some aspirin... then the next thing she remembers is watching the last five minutes of the second half of the football game. so... what? and hour or so elapsed? more? she remembers nothing of that period of time. which is particularly disturbing, as there was evidence of her having *cooked* during that period. she'd taken food out of the oven, put other things in, and set the table.

weird, eh? amnesia. just like in a soap opera.

anyway, it was a good night, if a little bizarre.