Reporting that 4-month old niece Erin went home from the hospital Tuesday and is eating and excreting normally, so seems in fine shape. My SIL, after spending the night in children's hospital, has much more perspective on how lucky she is that it's only a kidney removed, and nothing half a tragic as most of the families there.

Off to catch up in Natter - ice storm, no power since Weds. PM, boringest snow day in history, at husband's work hoping cat does not freeze to death.

My first book review is up on the All About Romance website. There's a grammatical error in the first paragraph I need to get them to correct, but I'm still excited--it's quite the rush to have something official up being read!

I'm outta town beginning in about 10 minutes and will be mostly dark until Sunday evening. Then I'll be going out of town again from Tuesday afternoon until Thursday evening. The latter is a business trip to Atlanta. Are there any Buffistae in Atlanta?

Wooo-fucking-hoo!

I passed the second in my series of credentialling tests. Once I finish my class, then I will have my teaching certificate not only in a multisubject classroom, but also in a secondary English classroom.

Hey all. Going vaguely grayish for the next few days, as I travel from the frozen north to the, uh, frozen south.

flea has cell phone for emergencies. (She has my cell phone number, I mean, not my actual cell phone, cause [a] not mine and [b] she still several states away from me.) Will be able to check email now and then, and often enough to see/respond to that. Boy, will I be Skippy McSkimmerson when I get back, though.

Will see people and goof off. If want see me, and have no brains to plan like me, email me and we drool at each other.

Going dark for about 5 days whilst I hit Sin City. Pray for me to come back super rich so I can buy out Fox and kick some executive ass to keep Firefly on the air.

I'm also still looking for Buckeye Firefly fans to come to a party on the 20th. Come out, come out, wherever you are...email me at the profile addy.

I'm alive!! In case y'all were wondering. As flea already noted, we had a disappointing snow last Wednesday, but it came with a hell of a lot of ice, and many bajillions of trees and power lines and all the rest coming down. Most of them in my neighborhood, as luck would have it. I'm still without power, and writing from the BF's (electrified) apt (the lucky bastard).

I miss you all as much as I miss heat.

Okay, I'm lying about that last bit. But almost.

Woo to the hoo! My grandfather is going home on Wednesday!!! After 6 weeks of IV's and all that mess. Wierd thing is, the cancer has become the secondary problem. The dr's are trying to tell him that he's more suceptible to c-dif because the section of his colon that they removed due to cancer is the highest absorbency section. They aren't buying it - he had it removed 27 years ago and hadn't had a problem til now. Anyway, YAY!!!

I'm at the airport waiting for my sister to arrive, so this is a good time to say I won't be around for a while -- in fact if you see me here you should probably kick my ass off.

We're getting married on Thursday morning, and having a party on Saturday night.

Apart from

• huge forest fires
• our intended witnesses, a couple, breaking up after five years together
• the airline my sister's on announcing bankruptcy on the day she flies in and
• a total eclipse of the sun

I'd say the omens are pretty good. After all the torrential rains that have just started up will help with the forest fires, eh?

Seriously, sorry you can't all be there, and see you in a week or so if not before.