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The Daily Mail Dream Index
Nov. 15th, 2025 09:15 amThere is one good thing about this time of year: I sleep more deeply & I dream more vividly. Like last night, I dreamed I had developed a forecasting tool based on Daily Mail headlines. Each day is a number based on a ratio derived from the number of headlines devoted to each topic. A typical ratio might read:
Meghan Markle (5) : Donald Trump (4): Cosmetic Surgery Nightmares (3): Toddlers Dying in Parked Cars (2): Ozempic Horror Stories (11) = Daily index of 0.189.
Which means a pretty good day! Only 11 Gazans will die; Trump will only collapse three times off camera, coming down those passenger airstairs, and the New York Giants will beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
That's a pretty good idea! I thought when I woke up.
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Other than that, I did very little but Remunerate yesterday.
My mood is still perky from socializing & accomplishing writing goals so I didn't feel particularly oppressed by Remunerating, although naturally I wish it were more like automatic writing, or that a $50,000 bill would waft down from Heaven, or that the MacArthur Foundation folk would stumble across my diary & realize what a great genius I am.
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Chapter 4 of the Work in Progress begins with a description of how lame the backwater community hospital is dealing with COVID patients. I haven't been an RN since 1992, and I have no idea what a non-lame way of dealing with COVID patients might be. So, I have emails & texts in to all my medical pals:
How many ventilators they would have. Would they have an ECMO machine? Would they have (or need) access to dialysis? They WOULDN'T have a negative pressure room, right? So what might their isolation precautions look like? How might they handle something like the ER waiting room? Would they make people wait outside in their cars & then just call them in one at a time?
I guess they call that research.
Meghan Markle (5) : Donald Trump (4): Cosmetic Surgery Nightmares (3): Toddlers Dying in Parked Cars (2): Ozempic Horror Stories (11) = Daily index of 0.189.
Which means a pretty good day! Only 11 Gazans will die; Trump will only collapse three times off camera, coming down those passenger airstairs, and the New York Giants will beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
That's a pretty good idea! I thought when I woke up.
###
Other than that, I did very little but Remunerate yesterday.
My mood is still perky from socializing & accomplishing writing goals so I didn't feel particularly oppressed by Remunerating, although naturally I wish it were more like automatic writing, or that a $50,000 bill would waft down from Heaven, or that the MacArthur Foundation folk would stumble across my diary & realize what a great genius I am.
###
Chapter 4 of the Work in Progress begins with a description of how lame the backwater community hospital is dealing with COVID patients. I haven't been an RN since 1992, and I have no idea what a non-lame way of dealing with COVID patients might be. So, I have emails & texts in to all my medical pals:
How many ventilators they would have. Would they have an ECMO machine? Would they have (or need) access to dialysis? They WOULDN'T have a negative pressure room, right? So what might their isolation precautions look like? How might they handle something like the ER waiting room? Would they make people wait outside in their cars & then just call them in one at a time?
I guess they call that research.
