personal and political

mom is well.
i got to the hospital last night around 8:30 and she drifted in and out (much like the nurses) all through the night and into the morning. i took my sketchbook and she oohed and ahhed over the pictures; morphine must make those mandalas i've been drawing look pretty cool. :-)
iPod in ear (just one ear, so that i'd have one open in case she said anything or made noise), i sketched her sleeping face. i thought about reincarnation. i slept a little. i drank two cups of hospital coffee (surprisingly tasty) and ate some chocolate-covered cranberries nic gave me a long time ago. at about 7 this morning she suddenly said, "need to get up! day's half over!" and fumbled her way out of the covers. she brushed her teeth and combed her hair, and was even about to use her curling iron, upon which i told her that her hair looked fine already. (yes, my mom began her motherly tenure in the 1950's.)
dad showed up around 8:30, and mom's doctor came in a little after that. they discussed catheters and urethras for a while. i asked about the cancer cells they found and mom informed me that they found only one cancer cell in her uterine tissue, and that it would be several days before we'd get the biopsy on the current sample, but that everything looks good so far. that was nice news.
i hit the road around 9. i took the day off from school, so i'll take a little nap now and have lunch with nic this afternoon.
now, then, in regards to the state of the union address:
*in this morning's paper i already noticed that bush's spokespeople are backpedalling on all his promises of switching our dependence on oil over to more sustainable means; i'm not sure what to make of this, but my first reaction is a pre-upchucking sneer.
*there was lots of annoying clapping, like always, though i noticed there were more people not clapping this year than i've ever noticed before.
*his overuse of the word "isolationism" in reference to american dissent regarding our presence in iraq smacks of bad speech writing. he has dubbed those who disagree with the iraqi invasion "isolationists;" but who was it that sent troops into iraq against the votes of the UN? if that's not deliberate isolationism, tell me what is.
*it seems i detected the phrase "redefinition of marriage" as a pejorative term.
nik is offering a prize to anyone who uses eight words from his list to write his or her own state of the union address. this could be fun...