Hooray for Emily! Middle school will be exciting and fun, I hope. You can get them mathy before they are too cool for such things!

Yeah, most of the time when I get colds they end up settling into my chest.

OMG, NoiseDesign and I are as one. And it's not just the ND initials. I never had pneumonia, but when I was a regular smoker, I'd get crazy bronchitis, it resulted in low level athsma all the time now, and whenever I get a cold I am hacking hacking hacking to get that crap out of lungs in the hope that I don't have to get anti-b's to do it for me.

Still hacking and making my co-commuters and co-workers hate me lots

I think it's one of the reasons my lower back is protesting, as well. I feel SO much pressure in the sore spot when I'm coughing.

((((Tom S.))))

((((beth and hand))))

((((Nora))))

Good news for Sean & S, and Emily!

At least the news is getting a little more mixed.

YAY Emily!!! Congratulations!!!

{{{Nora}}} Feel better soon.

Congratulations, Emily!

And I'm glad S is doing better, Sean!

I'm back from the wilds of Saginaw, MI. Not enough caffeine in the world to cure my gronk today, folks. In the world.

And now back to my in-basket.

Thanks, sj. It's just a lingering annoyance right now, but it makes my back and abs ache.

Tep, I g-mailed you.

Hooray, Emily!

Calli, welcome back. When is your interview?

Sean, I'm glad to read that S is doing better. Much more of that, please.

Have people been in touch with Beverly?

Yay Emily!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Emily!!!

Am feeling gronktastic this morning.

Yesterday we got the news that my assistant is still under medical care and will not be reviewed for return to work until November, at the earliest. Sigh. Medically, it sounds like she is doing as well as can be expected. It doesn't sound as though they are doing more chemo, she is just recovering from all the treatments so far. Plus trying to put her life in order now without her husband.

Hi Cindy! My interview is tomorrow afternoon, from 1:30-3:00. I'm assuming that if they take one look at me and think, "Er, nsm," it'll go a lot more quickly. I'm hoping that they'll be so fascinated with my many, manifold talents that we'll end up talking long into the evening.

I hope your assistant's recovery goes well, SuziQ.

{{{Nora}}} hope you are feeling better soon. And don't worry about your coworkers. If they get shirty with you, just cough On them.

{{{beth}}} be good to yourself.

Calli, I'll share some of my awakeness with you, I don't need it. In fact I'll take all the gronk right now and just go back to bed with it, as I have today off.

Continued car~ma would be appreciated. We have a lead on a car which is probably not a long-haul car but which might get us through while we search for the long-haul car.