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That article amused me more than it should have.

As your kidney. Then he can die tragically and be replaced by a new kidney, as played by Orlando Bloom.

seriously just hurt myself gaffawing.

That article amused me more than it should have.

I've waffling between amused and horrified.

Jeff, good to have you back!

[eta: Okay, the last line of the article has pushed me over the edge into amused:

Explanations include an unknown virus, a fungus that has infected the water, or crows, which in an echo of the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, attack the toads, literally scaring them to death.]

That article amused me more than it should have.

Glad I'm not alone in this.

I am bored. I have work to do, but I just don't wanna. I want to go home, cuddle with my cat, and do nothing. It's the last week of classes before finals, and I have a paper due. I kinda wish I could work on it now so I could go home and do nothing. No such luck.

(usually whipped out by caesarean at eight months to prevent the mother having to get too fat)

This I doubt. An ethical doctor won't risk the baby that way, and furthermore celebrity pregnances seem to be lasting the full time; otherwise the media would be all over the prematurity (as with Julia Roberts).

Yeah, I have trouble believing that one too. The legal liabilities would be too high. And really, there just isn't that much difference between eight months and nine on the fat factor.

Jeff, I'm happy to read that you're out of the hospital and on the mend.

Jeff, welcome back. I hope that the dialysis treatments will relieve some of the stress on your kidney and give your body a chance to catch up. It was very thoughtful of your sister to let us know about your hospitalization (and of you, to have her do so). Here's to your health.

I am impressed that Trudy knows what fruits have phosphorus in them. I was sitting there thinking, What foods glow in the dark? Avoid those.

Not only do we now know of the metabolic derring-do of one Jeff Mejia, we know he is a PhD-studying brainiac. What field, if I may ask? And will you be taking up rock guitar next, or experimental physics?

but having the tummy tuck since the c-section was already there would have been alright with me.

Are these two procedures actually done in the same place? I mean, there is "Well, I'm under anaesthesia so you might as well make more incisions," and then there is "You can do it all with only one cut." If someone offered me a tummy tuck as a gift with purchase on, say, a kidney transplant, I would make sure it was as gifty as the doctor says it is.

I didn't think to go for books on audio - that probably would have helped pass time. I did get through listening to some CD's (Coltrane's Love Supreme and Revolver by the Beatles). Also, reruns of Buffy and Angel brought the nostalgia factor. High sap factor with "I Will Remember You" and "Hero" from season 1 of Angel.

In a personal observation, TV news, even cable networks, is so full of crap as to make on despair. That was one of the real problems of no internet connection, since it was impossible to get real news.

Didn't Jeff say "potassium"? If he didn't I'm decidedly not clever.

Don't good breast implants go in through the navel? It would make sense to do the C-section, the tuck, and the boob-job all at once if they did.

And a lot of actresses are pretty tiny people. Taking a baby at eight months might not be that tough to justify or outrageous.