ita - I hope you hear some good news soon.

Still thinking good thoughts for your father, ita.

I finally had to admit defeat and skip 1500 posts, because I kept refusing to, and they kept piling up, and... the pressure was too much. Natter needs a weekly digest. I hate skipping.

I forgot about Heroes tonight. Sad now.

Scifi is going to have a mini-marathon of Heroes on Wednesday -- if it isn't included in that -- well, Scifi usually repeats the newest episode Friday.

Anyone have a NYT Select subscription? (Mine expired and I don't know if it's worth renewing.) Anyway, I want to read this Maureen Dowd column.

Here's some quotes:

Maureen Dowd writes in her New York Times opinion column (subscription required): "Delusional is far too mild a word to describe Dick Cheney. Delusional doesn't begin to capture the profound, transcendental one-flew-over daftness of the man.

"Has anyone in the history of the United States ever been so singularly wrong and misguided about such phenomenally important events and continued to insist he's right in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? . . .

"You must have a real talent for derangement to stay wrong every step of the way, to remain in complete denial about Iraq's civil war, to have a total misunderstanding of Arab culture, to be completely oblivious to the American mood and to be absolutely blind to how democracy works."

She adds: "In a democracy, when you run a campaign that panders to homophobia by attacking gay marriage and then your lesbian daughter writes a book about politics and decides to have a baby with her partner, you cannot tell Wolf Blitzer he's 'out of line' when he gingerly raises the hypocrisy of your position."

Insent, Tommy.

Tank yew!

Oh, the chemistry between Jon Stewart and Bill Gates... is not.

Thanks, sumi - I did see the thing about Wednesday, plus I figured I could catch it online. I was just all excited for the spoiler casting, and then... I forgot. D'oh.

Much let everything be okay ~ma for ita and Dad of ita.

I have been home all day feeling achy, fevery and nauseous. And I just found out why. However, an awesome Mr. Jane just left work on his tiny break to bring me tomato soup and some Indian/vegetarian thing in a pita, walk the dogs, and run to the convenience store for supplies.

ETA: I also meant to say that while I feel like utter shit, at least I don't have this , which is apparently what my real mom (friend of my mother's who we decided must be my real mom, and my mom is her daughter's real mom) caught while in Singapore.

I talked to my SIL today, and my nephew has been asking where I am. So she put him on the phone and we talked about baking cookies in Grammie's kitchen.

MISS HIM.