Hey, that -ma is pretty good stuff. The niece went in, they put her out, jiggled her arm around a little, and got it set without surgery. She's casted up and hopefully will heal nicely. Thanks!

Hey NC-istas...looks like I'll be down in your neck of the woods this weekend! So, um, if any of you will be around and want to have brunch or see a movie or something, email me tonight or tomorrow? mearagirl, at yahoo...

going grey to dark - should be loseing computer tomorrow. I should be able to be back on line Saturday, but who knows

and by the way

moving sucks this time around.

I'm in my new house. Tired but happy.

Releasing the ma back into circulation.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I'm off (or anyways off-ish, pending finally finishing all the packing and running around the house like Mike the Headless Chicken) to the ever-charming Charlotte NC for the US Fencing Association Summer Nationals.

No, we don't have a Winter Nationals. We're just a little odd.

If you're tempted, you can hunt for Division III Women's Saber results at USfencing.org -- but if past years are any indication, they'll get around to posting last weekend's results sometime in October. More to the point, I'll try to check in with an update or two here and in LJ, but other than that, I'm dark until the weekend.

Wish me luck, and I'll see y'all when I get back!

I'm up for my one year review this week, where they decide my raise, and BF is right now out interviewing for a job. He's been out of work and looking since January 1st. Wish us both ma, we could definitely use it!

The ma, she is powerful stuff. The BF got the job! He is going to be working at a small production company which does a cable show about cars and motorcycles ("Life in the Fast Lane" on Fine Living Network) . He's be pitching. writing, shooting and editing segments and getting all the production experience he needs, plus getting to travel to all kinds of cool locations and drive cool cars. It's a small place, so there is lots of room for him to develop ideas and maybe even shows. Money is not a lot, but we don't need much. We're both tickled to death. Yahoo!!!

Since a batch of you have emailed me in the past using my profile addy, I figured I should note that said address has changed from gasconne at yahoo dot com to lysana at gmail dot com (yes, I am a sheep). If you all could change your address books, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for all the -ma. Of my two suddenly sacked friends, the one who's a single mother and was in the worst straits now has her job back. I don't know about the other lass, and I'm not very optimistic, but hopefully she'll either be re-hired or find something better. I return half the -ma with interest, but retain some of it on behalf of my other mate.

So, it's official. By the end of the month, I will be in Los Angeles permanently. Apparently whatever was in the water in Michigan spread south. I'll be looking for housing and work, and trying not to get myself killed on the freeways, and so will probably be around somewhat less for a while.