yesterday we wasted all day – It started out when i went to take blood tests and the health clinic didn’t have them registered on their computers – so i couldn’t do them.  

And then we couldn’t seem to do anything on our computers – 

only today it emerged that something had gone wrong with the microsoft itself, and not only was my work from yesterday erased, but other things of significance as well.  

the one thing that was saved from the day was my encounter with the nurse.  “How could this be?”  I pleaded.  “The tests are important! The list must have been lost!”  “Shout at them!” she said, meaning the administration office.  “I can’t.” I complained.  “I don’t know how to shout.”  “Me either,” she said.  “Maybe it’s a good thing.”  And I looked at her, a young Arab girl, sharing a secret with an old Jewish woman.  And she looked back at me, and knew exactly what we meant.