Can I ask for some generalized it's-nothing~ma, and a dose of health~ma? I have to do a follow up visit next month just to make sure it really is nothing. And after the past couple of years, I would really, really like it to really be nothing. For a long time. Also sorry if I'm being a ~ma hog. I want to not be.

I know I've been more of a lurker but SLNRLBF is coming to see me tomorrow and he has a couple of tight connections. Travel~ma would be greatly appreciated.

Can anyone recommend a good agent for book length "serious" non-fiction. ("Serious" is this context is a standard marketing term, and I reject any implied denigration of non-fiction sold with different marketing labels.) Profite addy good, or if you don't mind mentioning the name in public, I do check "Great Write Way".

Joe is leaving for Iraq tonight. While I normally welcome brackets of all shapes, I doubt I will be around much to respond tonight. But I wanted you all to know that he is leaving. Of his three deployments, i think I am the most okay with this one. He is going with very good friends, some of whom are already there. The rest will hang out with him tonight (plane leaves at 2am but his show time is 9:30 or so) until he gets on the plane. The kids and I will say goodbye at the house and then i will put them to bed.

I talked with my sister today. Seems Friday they got word, my BiL has a job!!! He starts Wednesday! Thank you all for the ~ma! It does work!! I release it back into the wild, so that it can help others in need.

(xposty in Bitches)

OK. Here goes: I'm gonna need some ~ma tomorrow for initial contact about something that I know I can do, only it's in a certain respected place with esteemed people. And one of them will have to see the light and to OK me, which might and will be the tricky part.

Some people around me think it might be a wonderful thing for a lot of people and for the place. I don't know what to think, other than that it sounds great and I want it, and that I'm somewhat scared of esteemed people's thoughts of me and my performance. Oh, and did I mention it can solve some Very Serious Worries I currently have? So that's what and why I need the ~ma for.

And thank you! I really can't wait to stop being so secretive and tell you what it's all about, but I need to be after the initial contacts and get the "OK" in order to do so. There are very amusing parts about the whole thing, trust me. I'm sure your powerful~ma will help.

Update: I got in! Thank you all very much, and I'm releasing back the ~ma.

While I am much, much better, my beloved 'surrogate' mom, Niki is in a very bad way.

She has had two heart attacks in the last week, and then contracted pneumonia in the hospital. (we are keeping it in the family, at least)

Tomorrow, she is supposed to have an exploratory procedure to determine if she will have open heart surgery. This seems a likely outcome and her prognosis going onto the table is quite bad.

I got to see her this evening, which was great. And, unlike her other recent illnesses, I'm mostly okay with whatever happens. Being so sick myself has firmly shifted me into the 'no suffering please' camp.

Please, right outcome ~ma directed at Takoma Park, MD, Monday the 11th.

Can I get some Please let this one be nothing-ma for this afternoon? I have to go in for a thyroid biopsy around 2:30 board time.

Happy National Coming Out Day everyone! Columbus schmalumbus, let's be fabulous!

A lovely woman I work with was pregnant with twins last year and lost the babies. She got pregnant again this year--again with twins, which her doctor said was REALLY rare--and is now on bedrest for early labor. She is almost to week 28, which is a good thing, but more time for the babies-ma would be much appreciated.