Thank you all for the well wishes.

It will be Thanksgiving when we finally get to meet one another. I'll have camera ready, though! Now I can buy all sorts of amazing girly gifts. I think Amelia needs a Gothic Charm School item, too.

ita, I know this is belated, but you left your last job on really good terms, yes? Is it possible you could get permission to use a redacted document? If they said it was OK that takes care of the ethical issues. And even if it is too late for this job, it might be a good thing to have.

Fingers crossed: she just came by to hold the cat for an hour or so. I don't know that I'll see him again, but she said "she just wanted to hold him." He's next door. I told him she can visit anytime. I *think* this is the grandniece in question. No telling.

How old is this grandneice, sara? Maybe you need to talk to Miss Louise (that's it, right?) and say you're getting attached already, and would just like to know what's what.

Already told her. The g-niece is probably 20s/30s. I'm trying to be high principled about this; I knew it could happen.

eta: but not high enough to avoid whining.

And Miss Louise doesn't have a lot of sway over those generations. Her great-grandkids are ok, the others...well, they are part of the reason I really hope she does move into a nursing home. She was in the hospital on Saturday. Stress. They take advantage of her.

Honestly, as much as I love her and think she means well, I think it took raising kids and then grandkids for her to get it closer to right. N (great g-k) is the first who hasn't been a teen parent and who actively is trying to avoid that route. S..well, he was a crack baby, and is emotionally younger than his actual age. But he's doing...ok. Not great, but he seems to be staying out of trouble so far. I don't know what the future hold for him.

Didn't write any at the last job, sadly, Typo. And I'm sure that no docs from any of my other jobs still exist.

Lee, did you send them to provocateuse? I haven't checked that mail today yet. Didn't mean to besmirch you.

I did-- pics @. I sent some last night too. Let me know if I should resend them elsewhere.

Palinopsia, from today's New Yorker blog:

A neurologist friend, Dr. Richard Ransohoff, has drawn our attention to an early contribution to the suddenly burgeoning field of palinological studies.

It is hoped that this paper, published, in 1989, in the Swiss-based journal European Neurology (Vol. 29, No. 6) may illuminate the phenomenon, often seen in Republican patients, whereby failed Bush policies are retained in policy-processing areas of the brain long after these policies have demonstrated themselves to be abject failures.

Dr Richard Ransohoff is my uncle. [eta: And Donald Fagen was his college roommate, hence the last line of the column.]

Wasn't the g-niece. But she wants me to have him. And he's home for now. G-niece hasn't shown up like she said. Guess she doesn't want him that much. Hmph. Still in limbo. But he's chowing down.

Congrats Burrell on the AP-ship and GadgetGirl on the niece!

Also, little kitty is sooo cute. I want you to have him sarameg.