Elise Sereni Patkotak

OK, I’m now booked to be on the radio in San Francisco on Thursday morning – that’s today or tomorrow depending on when you read this – at 10:06 San Francisco time. You can listen in, if you are so disposed, at http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp.

The topic is still Sarah.

Today I go to the dentist and get a wisdom tooth removed. Yes, I’m extremely old and still have a wisdom tooth left in my mouth. I think it was left in my mouth in the hope that it would leech some intelligence into my brain.  Since that didn’t work, they’re pulling it. And I get kickapoo joy juice to help me through it as well as pain medication after. So I will spend today in a smiling fog. Tomorrow I may not be so happy.

There was a time when my friend Sandra and I would have stayed up all night celebrating the anniversary of my arrival in Barrow. Now we’re lucky if we can stay awake after dinner long enough to get a celebratory phone call in. Getting older is certainly one of the most interesting passages of my life to date.

So the government gives Wall Street and various senate and house pork projects over $800 billion. Now California may want up to $7 billion. I’d like to know where the line is forming for these requests because I could sure use a billion or so to tide me over the next few years.

To all those who listened to the Brian Copeland show this morning, I offer my apologies. I was bumped to next Sunday and they were supposed to announce that but, of course, they didn’t. Show business…the last refuge of the truly rude.

Every Saturday at noon, I get in my car and tune in to public radio’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. If you’ve never heard this show, treat yourself. It’s hysterical. Anyhow, my routine is to drive to my latte stand, get my daily caffeine allowance and then drive around and explore different parts of Anchorage for the hour the show is on. It’s the only way I can guarantee uninterrupted listening. Since fall is in its last throes up here and snow is rapidly moving down the mountains, I took a route that brought me up through the foothills on

Sunday morning, between 8 and 9 AM Alaska time, I’ll be doing an interview on the Brian Copeland program, a radio show in San Francisco.  If you are really bored, tune in. It’s bound to be at least as interesting as Sunday morning television. And I may be wrong, but I’m going to guess the topic will be Sarah Palin. But that’s just a guess.  Anyway, here’s the address:

http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp

The Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association (Four A’s) is holding my kind of fund raising event. It’s called the Odd Ball. You set your own date, wear whatever you want and hold it wherever you please. Now that’s my kind of ball. I don’t have to buy clothes, put on makeup, stress over my hair (or lack thereof as the thinning of menopause continues) and, most importantly, I DONT HAVE TO PUT ON A BRA TO ENJOY THE FESTIVITIES. Does it get any better than that? I don’t think so.

I plan to hold my Odd Ball on Superbowl Sunday. I

Thirty six years ago today I first stepped foot in Barrow. I think that says all that needs to be said, don’t you?