Requesting health~ma for my grandmother and coping ~ma for my mom. March got one in under the wire: my gram fell last Friday and broke her wrist badly (multiple fractures, etc.). She was in the hospital over the weekend, had surgery on Monday that went well, and was released on Tuesday.

Apart from the healing, that should have been the end of the story. Except that she apparently contracted the Robo-virus while in the hospital and is now too sick to go to the doctors. Mom is dealing with this largely on her own, and her email updates are breaking my heart. They may be heading back to the ER this evening. If it gets any worse, I may be buying a plane ticket.

Update on Gram: Mom took her to the ER and they've tested and hydrated her. She's doing better and is going home with my mom. Looks like a nasty virus on top of her recovery from the wrist surgery. And they say hospitals aren't as generous as they used to be! Sigh. Anyway, thanks for the ma. The prognosis looks pretty good for now.

Well the apocalypse hit me on Monday and after being hauled out of my Doctors office on a guerny to the ER, xrayed, stabbed with things, then sent to the hospital for a glorious weeks stay, I got sent home with a bag of pills and an air compressor to be delivered. None of it free.

But I am better now and releasing any ~ma I might have had back to you.

Marty

Thank you to the Buffistas for the lovely nursing camisoles! Since I do nothing but sleep and pump breast milk and visit the hospital, it's the perfect top.

Also if you have any extra energy to send, Grace is having surgery on Monday at 2:00 PM PDT to close a hole in her heart. Noah may also have the surgery on the same day, but we won't know until tomorrow.

Hi! So, after some serious deliberation, I've decided to accept York's placement offer for their philosophy masters program in the fall. It was a hard choice, but I'm happy with it, and I sent off the initial paperwork today. The course starts in September, so I have the next few months to prepare to move eastwards, with a brief Stateside interlude.

This gives all you people with vacation thoughts and discretionary incomes time to plan visits to come see me. I'm just sayin'.

For those of you who are fans of B-Movies, the latest installment of the B-Movie Bastards Podcast is up. I'm one of the hosts.

The website is here: [link]

White Castle has posted my ads onto youtube. They misspelled "theremin":

theramin (sic) 1

theramin (sic) 2

LAistas - we still have lots of stuff leftover from our yard sale. If there's something you need, email me and I might have it for you. Please help me get this junk out of here before I have to put it on the curb! We have furniture and all manner of household stuff.

Thanks!

I got the official offer today (finally!).

So it looks like I'm coming down from the ivory tower and heading San Francisco way.

Now I just need to find an affordable place ASAP. I am thinking about heading out to SF either for the weekend of May 5-6 or May 12-13. Flights would be cheaper for the second weekend. SFistas, does that seem better or worse in terms of trying to find a place for June 1st?

Juliana, still willing to help me look? I'll be staying with friends, but with two kids, I don't think my friend will want to go apt hunting. Also, if any SFistas know of a place, please keep me in mind. Thanks!

I've given up on the cheap phone service, so my telephone number has changed. If you don't have it but want it, had the last one or the last before that and want to update, or just think it might come in handy one day, drop me a line and I'll send it right back to you. Probably.