Randy's Thoughts Chapter 26

A/N: This one's for you Roi! You'll definitely be missed by all knew you.


Journal Entry for Wednesday January 14, 1998

Two days from now. On Friday I have to have my nose cauterized.

The doctor explained it to me, and told me that he's never heard of someone dying during a cautery, but I'm still scared. Here's what happens when during a cautery (to the best of my memory). The doctor takes something called a "lunar caustic" and dips it into water and then presses it down on blood vessels. He/she repeats the process until they've cauterized all that needs to be done.

The thing that really sucks for me is, the doctor, Dr. Reynolds, said that both sides will have to be cauterized, but they can't be done at the same time otherwise the two will cancel each other out (which I don't understand).

But this surgery is supposed to keep my nose from bleeding, so I guess it's worth it.

Then, on top of all that, I still have the surgery to remove those bullet fragments to look forward to as well. God are the hospitals ever going to be getting rich off my body this year.

I don't think Mark was counting on anything like this happening. He hasn't hardly said a word to me since he found out.

Mom found out something interesting yesterday at work. I've said before that she is a manager at Wal-Mart. That's not one hundred percent true. She's actually a "co-manager" of sorts. (She's a step above assistant manager, but isn't manager either). Well, anyways, she found out that there is going to be a new Wal-Mart built in Dearborn, Michigan, and they want her to manager that one. (She would actually be the manager there). She would only have to drive about 15 or 20 minutes to get there, and would be making a little bit more money.

Tomorrow dad is supposed to be reburied in the new casket, since the police wrecked the last one. (And for no good reason at that!)

You know, I've been thinking a lot about dad's surprise again. I couldn't really think of what it might be (sincd there are so many possibilites), but I have resolved not to think about it any more. It's just driving me crazy, and me going insane has yet to accomplish anything.

Lauren came by earlier today. She wanted to tell me about some program the school is thinking about doing. It would send twenty or thirty some odd kids over to Costa Rica on some kind of environmentalist program or something like that. She wasn't real specific with details.

But anyways, she just wanted to know what I thought about her signing up for the program. I told her that I think she should go for it if she wants to. I also told her that I wish that I could go too, but since I'm being schooled by Wilson this year, I can't. (Which sucks big time). I mean, she'd only be gone for seven months, but still...

Speaking of enviromentalism, all these uptight, stodgy, oil company owning conservatives are really starting to piss me off. They won't concede to the fact that global warming is real, and now you have all these aforementioned conservative types coming out and saying that El Nino isn't real. When will global warming be a reality to them? When they're swimming in the Sahara Desert because all the polar ice caps have melted? These people just don't get it.

Not that I'm saying all people who don't believe in El Nino and/or global warming are uptight, stodgy, own oil companies, and are Republican. And I'm not saying all Republicans, uptight people, stodgy people, or people who own oil companies don't believe in global warming and/or El Nino. It just seems like they don't give a good flying damn.

However, I do have to admit that I think the nation is taking a step in the right direction by banning smoking in all bars and restaurants in California. I mean, people go to a restaurant to eat food, not to inhale second hand smoke.

Wow. I think the radio station I'm listening to must have a new DJ working right now. I just heard "Losing My Religion", "I'll Be There For You", and "Macarena" back to back to back. Normally, you'd do good to hear any one of these over the period of a month. Not that I'm really complaining. And yes, I know I've said before that I despise the TV show friends, but that doesn't mean I can't like the song that just happens to be the theme.

Wow, I sure had a lot to write about today. And I didn't think that that much was going on in my life.

-Randy


A/N: Sorry that it took me so long to update, I've just had so many ideas for Crash and Nine Months of Hell lately.

Next chapter probably won't be journal format since it will feature Randy's nose surgery.

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Thanks for reading.

-Yours truly, Randy Taylor