My Dearest Denizens of the Blogosphere, it has been a Week.  It has been a Week of Things and Events and Occurrences, and all said Things, Events, and Occurrences have added up to be A Lot.  Since my journey to the emergency room on Friday, I’ve gathered a few kernels of wisdom, and since my gathering kernels of wisdom is a pretty rare thing, I figured I’d share them with you in this weekly wrap-up.

Kernels of Wisdom Gathered By Emma Bolden Since Her Journey to the Emergency Room on Friday

• When life give you lemon-shaped kidney stones, especially ones which appear to be covered in spikes, drink a ton of lemonade to break those bastards up.
• The ones we love most are the ones who hurt us the most.  By this, I mean Diet Coke.
• If you truly love someone, sometimes the only thing you can do is let them go.  By this, I also mean Diet Coke.
• There are plenty of fish in the sea, and there are plenty of non-carbonated caffeine-filled beverages.  Thank you, Crystal Light.
• General Ripper was right.  Water can be dangerous, especially if it’s full of things that give you kidney stones.
• It’s amazingly easy to make a kidney stoned themed iTunes playlist.
• If one is experiencing what could be termed a medical emergency, it’s probably a good idea to go to the emergency room and not wait, like, a month to do so.
• After one receives painkillers through an IV at the aforementioned emergency room, one can find any documentary on Netflix endlessly fascinating.
• Also, after one receives the aforementioned painkillers through an IV at the aforementioned emergency room, one can find a television program about vacuum cleaners endlessly fascinating for quite some time before realizing that one is actually watching an infomercial.
• Don’t shop and medicate.
• Sometimes, remembering to put on shoes before you leave the house is hard.

And here are my photos for the week.  This should be interesting.

Day 242: On Tuesdays, I have a class during lunch and during dinner. I am terrible at packing lunches, but I’m getting better — and I’m really loving pears right now.

Day 243: The day of two doctor visits. This is office one.

Day 244: Listen: going to the ER sucks. There’s no way to soften that. But these beautiful little girls were there, waiting for their father to get stitches, and they were so sweet that they made things better.

Day 245: I was a day late, but I managed to send off all of my postcards for the August poetry postcard a day project. I have to admit that I miss sending them — and I really, really miss receiving them.

Day 246: A photograph of what’s happened every morning for the past ten years that Gertrude and I have been together.

Day 247: Despite the Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012, I managed to meet seven Really Important Deadlines. I was so excited that I decided this would be the rest of my Labor day weekend. And then I woke up the next day and worked to get a head start on eleventy other Really Important Deadlines.

Day 248: Um, so, here’s the thing: sometimes, when your body’s busy doing something like making and/or passing rocks, it doesn’t do so well with things like, well, communicating with your brain, especially when it comes to perception and thought. This happened on Tuesday when I saw there was one last big cup in the office for coffee. Then I got in my office and realized I had poured coffee into the coffee fund cup. Needless to say, I’m making a series of donations to the new coffee fund cup.