May 15 - the day before my criminal procedure final exam. My law school let me take the exam about 6 weeks later, and I did fine. Labor started early in the morning, was it 5:00 am or so? I did have a horrible experience at UCLA and because of that horror I had my next baby at home on purpose, and ever since I have strongly been in favor of home births.
There is a DVD movie, "The Business of Being Born" by Ricki Lake that I wish every single parent-to-be would watch. It is truly eye-opening and educating. Childbirth is such an important subject that I would have this movie shown to every person as soon as they reached puberty in my Utopia.
Here in the year 2009, I am relaxing at home, doing a bit of hand laundry, plan to bake a tasty turnip dish based on a medieval recipe, plan to make some follow-up phone calls solving daily irritations made by corporations. Many years ago life was easier because business was done by individuals who cared. Today, things are likely to be handled by someone who does not share a common culture or language and basic understanding is more difficult. Also it is likely that the worker earns the minimum wage and does not intend to stay with the company for long, so it is hard to care about customers. So I find myself spending much more time fixing things than I did years ago.
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I just checked the birth certificate and your memory is good. It was actually 5:15 a.m. - so many "5's" and I love what you wrote about dealing with corporate culture clashes nowadays. So true.
ReplyDeleteThanks for you amazing depth and insight into just about everything. You truly are a one of a kind super woman.
I agree about customer care these days. You're lucky to have a live operator, even one who doesn't speak English well. I mostly get computerized operators.
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