Thanks so much for all the -ma and the calls and good wishes. I was telling Hec last night that thinking about the Buffistas made me think about the young wife's final monologue in Angels in America, where she talks about flying to San Francisco and seeing all the people who have passed on shimmering through the air around the airplane, joining hands and making a shield of themselves for all the scared, sad, sick people still walking around on the ground.

Not that any of y'all are passed on, but I felt the floaty hands and the loving wishes shielding me and the Halloweenie, all around us. So thank you all, so much.

All continues well, except that I'm now here through Monday morning at least. And my ass is all sore and cranky from excessive bedrest and the steroid injections. But I'm okay and the Halloweenie is vigorous and steadily heartbeaty and the placenta is staying put for now, so yay.

Brief post 'cause this keyboard is all rubbery and weird and sucks.

JZ!!! It is so wonderful to see you posting. I have been thinking about you all day. Tons of stay-put~ma to the Halloweenie.

JZ, it makes me so happy to hear from you! I'm glad they're taking good care of you, even if it involves needles, cuz, maybe the Weenie will decide she doesn't want you to have anymore shots and will knock off trying to renovate her abode until she's damn well out here with the rest of us!

Oh, neat sculptures, Tep. I am tickled by the locust and daddy-longlegs living on the one. Bummer about the hives.

We have that rule, too, brenda. Lying down while barking, I'm not gonna check it out.

Yay for Hec's unemployment money reawardment! And yay for vw and msbelle's productive day, very cool! And beth's not owing money! Yay!

That's hard to believe, erika, but even if the "zero original thoughts" is true, I know just from reading your posts here that your presentation is all you and that's why I'd buy your book. Sorry it's going slowly at the moment.

I just woke up from an 1.5 hour nap, if that even still qualifies as a nap. No idea why that happened, but it was apparently quite necessary.

jz, I'm so happy that you and the 'Weenie are doing well and I hope that the time passes quickly so you can be safe in your own home again.

I just copy other stuff I've seen or read a great deal of the time. IT's an epic crossover fanfic. Because I've got no life to give me experience to write from. I think maybe Mom can hold off spending the advance, you know?

JZ! Sorry yo have to stay in longer, but I'm glad you are being taken care of, and also that you have computer access!

Blarg. The dinner they just brought me? Unripe fruit salad, broccoli (okay, that one's not so bad), a huge wad of rice, an iceberg lettuce salad, and, the piece de resistance, teriyaki chicken. Both Hec and I have said overandoverandover that I am meatless. Thank God he's on his way here to heat up the rest of the paneer.

OTOH, I get to take a bath! WOOT! Par-tay in the hizzospital!

Erika you have had experiences. And you have an interior life. And you know people and their stories. That can be plenty of basis for writing. See also Emily Dickinson. You are undergoing one of those massive self-doubt things right now. but I've read some of the stuff you've published. You have style and something to say as well.

I think maybe Mom can hold off spending the advance, you know?

Well, okay. I'm massively on the side of not counting chickens, so okay. But I know you have written some searing and revealing drabbles that no one else could write, so I'm not gonna believe that you are just rehashing other people's stuff. I will believe that it feels like it sometimes, and that's a drag, but it ain't so.