I have been trying to share this cartoon with you for days:

Hee. Excellent. (Not terns, admittedly, I'd guess guillemots. And the penguins look like auks to me. 'Course, 'penguin' was first applied to auks, so that's ok.)

So I signed up for this net thing for peace, only I must have counted Eastern Time incorrectly. Which I do all the time, it just doesn't usually have to be so up-to-the-minute Nothing like starting off your day and feeling late already. D'oh. I wish I had learned better how to shake things off as a kid. I am still learning how now and stakes are higher. I was a sensitive kid, a, and get over it is kind of not the message of Special Class, which was kind of a womb with a view,b.

That Christopher will rule the world. Mark my words.

Surgery-ma for Emmett and lots of calm-ma for all the adults in his life.

psst I would like to hear more about the brain implants.

I'll just beam what I have over to you on my mind-phone.

concentrates

When I think about Emmett's situation, I can't help but think about my parents and what they went through with my 13 surgeries and many hospitalizations. They always seemed to me to think it was just the most natural thing. I never got any feelings of nervousness from them.

I had a very "What are you all freaking out about? It's just a hospital." attitude towards the whole thing.

I do think that being 8 years old and drugged to the eyeballs and still able to point out the the doctor that he was about to pull out the wrong tube (and being right, and probably saving my life in the process) may have warped my views on authority.

Gronklies!

So my folks got in last night sans incident, well, a little of the plane sitting on the tarmac for 45 minutes after arrival, due to insufficient ground crew (how the hell does that happen?), but no other incident.

They both have colds. Oh joy. Today is their running around day, getting ready for the next stage of their trip.

Now to catch up on the innernets.

Gronk.

I think my hosts are moving quietly around their bedroom, trying not to wake me up, but I have been up and sitting in their living room for half an hour.

Neat, a variant on the "I'm a Nigerian needing your help with a financial thing" email just landed in my inbox. This one says he's from Benin. Funny how that return address has a Czechoslovakian extension on it.

Isn't there an address we can forward these things to?

gronk.

best to emmentt and calmness to his parents.

I was in themiddle ofadream thatwas aromancenovel. sometimestherewerecharactersandsometimesIwasreadingit. damn no spacebar

I can only space by doing a hard return between words

Sending lots and lots of good vibes to Emmett and family. Does anyone know what time the procedure will be over?

WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Just heard back from incomplete #3's prof. She's finally graded my paper, and she's changed my grade from an incomplete to an A-. Yippy!