(((((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.

I (stupidly) just checked work email. One of the people who has dinged me for being all sorts of bad to her good over the past 10 years, although less so in the last several, just emailed asking after something we wrote for her that would allow her to pull a bunch of variables into a data set and also manage the set and export it, through a web page. No big deal, except that we wrote it so that she could stop creating static files with similar stuff that was rapidly outdated.

The gist of her email was "that file you wrote a while ago - can you tell me where it is? I can't seem to remember and I want to use it next week."

Dude. We wrote that for you FOUR YEARS AGO.

::blows bangs out of eyes::

also. Seekrit message to the state of Ohio: Neener! I'm not there anymore and all your pollen can go bug someone else. Love your Ohioistas. HATE your conifers and various grasses. I mean it. Shoo. Get outta my nose and eyes.

oh man, {{Sean}}

Sox, I don't miss Ohio's pollen sitch, either. Hope the Buckeye state was kind to you.

{{Sean}}

Owen's first day of 4K is tomorrow. The bus gets here at 12:37. I just emailed his special ed teacher and I hope things go smoothly tomorrow.