Ack! RIO! BE SAFE BEEP!

Am just back from the day of hell.

That is, if hell involves 6 HOURS waiting around in the hospital with your brother's newly-arrived girlfriend from Beijing, because she has been sick for a week and is now borderline starving and retching in the car on the way to the hospital and has poor English and the ER has all the usual suspects in it and you wait for 2.5 hours there and then the triage nurse is very annoyed and then you wait for another 2 hours and then the doctor comes in and goes out and comes in and goes out and when you leave nobody will tell you how to pay, so finally you just leave -- and then you get home and the hospital calls and they say her blood tests show a *really* high white blood cell count and she needs to come back right away OMG -- and just as you're playing rock-paper-scissors with your brother-in-law on who is going back the hospital calls again and says tomorrow would be okay.

And your brother's fiancee seems to like you BEST of all, and so you can't spend the evening curled up in front of your own tv, but must pick up some dvds and go back to your sister's house to watch Northern Exposure and explain why the moose is funny to the girl from Beijing.

OMG so tired.

But at least I'm not vomiting, so things could be worse.

Poor Consuela. That does sound like a horrible, no good, rotten day. I hope tomorrow is better.

Oh, poor Consuela. And poor fiancee-in-law. Not much of a consolation, but she probably adores you now and will do anything for you. God knows I would in her situation.

OMG...POOR RIO, GETTING HIT BY SOME FUCKO.

What Sara and Lee said, 'Suela.

Yep, Suela, that's hell. The only thing that would make it worse would be if you were also moving. Can she keep down diluted Gatorade? Is there a doc-in-the-box you can take her to tomorrow? Have you poured yourself a stiff drink?

Damn, Consuela. A trip to the ER is no fun in the best of circumstances, but that sounds like a special kind of hell.

MI-5: They are making fun of Salman Rushdie. And speaking very formal Urdu.

"Howzat?!" "Don't you start." </12 year old>

Oooh, they're up to that episode already, dcp? Cool.

And yeah, it kind of sucked. I felt so bad for her, especially since my brother isn't here, he's in Beijing, and I think she's having a crappy time. And I can't even blame her because she's really sick, it's not just stress and homesickness. But I don't think she's all that happy at my sister's house. Such a mess.

And now I should probably go. Oh, my back. Yay for ibuprofen!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, DXM!!!!

{{{{Consuela}}}}