Casey B Williams Enters My Life

So Casey E Williams is out. Unless I ask her to paint me a religious picture. Or egg her on. I just am not that mean.

I have a dad of another Casey Williams emailing me. Mostly they talk about running.

But more interesting --- a Casey B. Williams apparently applied for an analyst position at the CIA yesterday. Call me crazy, but would the CIA really want to hire someone who can't fill out their email address correctly on the application?

Ha!!

For past installments: The Christians in TX Love Me; Many Faith Groups Hate Love; My Alter Ego Wins a Prize!; My Alter Ego Likes Art;  BREAKING NEWS: Alter Ego Identified; Interview with My Hero; I Go Into Hiding; Letter to my Alter Ego

No News is Good News

All things are quiet on the home front. Other than waking up in the operating room, things went smoothly.

Highlights of the experience:
- Having an 83 year old roommate who spontaneously pooped at inappropriate times. Ok this wasn't a highlight but it was interesting.
- Experiencing a catheter, which would enhance couch potatoes' quality of life greatly. My favorite thing to say to T when it was in: "I'm peeing right now!!! Ahhh ha ha!!!"
- Getting my groin felt up 100 times a day (and night).
- Having a fixed heart! Duh!

Been at work since last Wednesday, still getting back into things. One thing is for sure: This will never be me.  More to come later, especially about my dear sweet friends.
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Before and After: My Aortic Coarctation

Before:

An actual coarctated heart:

After tomorrow at some unspecified time, my descending aorta will look like this:

No these are not actual images my my specific heart, but they are someone's. Click on the photos for attribution.

Catheter lab, here I come!

Resources:
Rush University Medical Center
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Things to Make You Laugh

I'm working on a Halloween post. Lots of old photos to find. By old, I mean from last year, and 4 years ago.

In the meantime, here are some sites to make you laugh:

This is Why You're Fat (Not only do you eat too much - cheese in my case - but you eat strangely highly caloric crap.)

Shit My Dad Says (Guy lives with his 73 year old dad, who is pretty danged funny)

Regretsy (handmade stuff gone oh so wrong)

Dooce (a mom, unfiltered)

Color Me Katie (whimsical, makes you smile)

*New Addition* Vote for Tito Jackson (Made the rounds at work a few weeks ago)

Letter to my Alter Ego

Hi Casey,

You don't know me, but we share the same name - Casey Williams. I personally like the name a lot, though as a child people often thought I was a boy (before meeting me) since our name is shared by males and females, and that was slightly annoying as I was the girliest girl in the history of girls. I'm now 28 years old,  living in Boston, and still pretty girly (though I play floor hockey, which isn't that girly).

Anyway. You might be asking, why is this other Casey Williams emailing me? Well the answer is really quite simple: My email address is Caseywilliams at gmail dot com. Your email address is CaseyEwilliams at gmail dot com. Sometimes (actually quite frequently), people don't read your written email address correctly and instead input mine.

Here are some of the emails I have received that were intended for you:

- One from a Pastor Tim, talking about a prayer group. He tried to get me to join.
- Two from a female prayer group that you joined. They were very passionate.
- Two from your dentist, who encourages flossing.
- One from someone interested in a table you were selling on Craig's List, except that after asking the woman it turns out she was looking from someone in Sacramento, CA, so this wasn't you or me
- One potentially intended for you from the Republican Party, but the email said "Dear Buster"
- Three from the Oxide Gallery - they have an upcoming "miniatures" exhibition.
- One from a modern art museum in Galveston notifying you that you won a FREE MEMBERSHIP for the year!!! Congrats on that one!

Obviously I didn't know how to contact you, since all I knew was my own email address. However, a friend used Google to track down your brief blog, which had your email address on it, so here I am! I get a lot of mistaken Casey Williams emails, but previously not so many from the same "other" Casey Williams.

I can certainly forward you the missed emails if you would like (especially the museum one!).

In the future, I would suggest writing your email address more clearly, like "caseyEwilliams@gmail.com" to ensure you receive all the emails you should be getting.

Let me know what you think! And happy Sunday.

Best,

Casey A. Williams
Boston, MA
caseywilliams at gmail dot com

For past installments: The Christians in TX Love Me; Many Faith Groups Hate Love; My Alter Ego Wins a Prize!; My Alter Ego Likes Art;  BREAKING NEWS: Alter Ego Identified; Interview with My Hero; I Go Into Hiding
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