I love whoppers but my favorite malted milk candies are Robin's Eggs and you can only get those around Easter. I know a shop in Garden Grove that sells all kinds of UK stuff including food. I've gotten Jelly Babies and... what are those things like M&Ms only the candy shells have different flavors? So yummy. I'll have to stop by there and look for Malteasers.

So, I just took S into the ER. It's hard to say how she's doing. They'll be keeping an eye on her, and probably admitting her, but someone from some payment office was, of course, bugging her to pay the Share of Cost ($900) today. Which we can't do. We have $5 between us right now.

They say it won't affect care, but I'm not comforted. I'm stressed out, and not dealing well.

{{{Sean}}}

(((((Sean))))) I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry, Sean. It is hard to not be stressed, but these are things that you do not have control over and can't fix. Our health care system is beyond disgraceful and the last thing in the world that people who are sick should have to deal with. {{Sean}} I wish there was something I could do or say that would help.

Ugh, Sean. So she was able to hold out for September as she planned? I guess that's a good thing at least.

Laga, Smarties.

I'm so sorry, Sean.

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I went to the store to buy a leash (I'd been using a long tether, wrapped around my hand, which hurt), and I came home with a leash... and Whoppers. No Maltesers to taste test, sadly.

Laga, Smarties.

Ah yes. Thanks!

Wow. I think I just got the most awkward phone call of my life.

A few years ago, I started going to a Jewish study group. It's two hours, once a week, where the first hour is generally a talk on that week's Torah portion, and then for the second hour, some people have study partners who they study some particular text with, while other people who don't want to do the study partner thing will have a group learning session where they continue the discussion from the first hour. I stopped going about a year ago -- I was sick for a while, and then it was winter and I didn't feel like walking all the way over there all the time, and so on. I was planning to start going back next week.

So anyway. I just got a call from them, saying that they'd noticed that I hadn't come in a while, and wondering if I was planning on coming back. The person who called? A guy I went out with once or twice a few years ago. I liked him, but he said he thought I was a "cool person" but that we wouldn't work out together. We had a few more awkward meetings and talked a few times. When he called, I thought I recognized his voice, but I wasn't sure. He, who had my name in front of him, didn't recognize me until about three minutes into the conversation. (He did, however, remember details of a conversation we had like two years ago.)

This was weird. And awkward. And I told him that I'll be back at the study group next week.

He, who had my name in front of him, didn't recognize me until about three minutes into the conversation.

oh dear.