I checked their patient portal again and the radiologist still hasn’t entered anything.

On the other hand, neither did the phone ring today with anyone wanting to tell me bad news personally, so that’s good. See how patient I’m being?

And on a lighter note, Alexandra Petri at the Washington Post noted that Fox News had prayers for sale.

(Now, in my church, poems are wonderful but a prayer is a heartfelt conversation between you and God, not something you might recite out of a book, and the work of being an actual Christian is in putting oneself aside and trying to hear/feel/fathom/choose/enter verb of your choice/ the guidance of the actual Divine for the good that it leads to. But I digress.)

So with capitalism sponsoring religion, Petri offered up a few of her own, and I’ll borrow a few of her lines here because she is just so good at this:

Our Father Who –sponsored by 23&Me

Art in Heaven–sponsored by Etsy

(and then eventually you get to)

On earth as it is in heaven –sponsored by Boeing

and

Forgive us our debts –sponsored by, I don’t even have to tell you because you’re already laughing and E. Jean Carroll gets first dibs.

Yeah…