I like the one in the second big picture, with the wings.

Am having a fractured visit from Colin. He's off to meetings, but I'm trying to get him to buy me lunch afterwards. Here's hoping the meetings don't drain him too much.

I have a couple calls coming up about jobs. Couldn't begin to tell you for what companies--I will be improvising madly. I should have asked the first woman, for tomorrow's call, but I was too busy being grateful. Oops.

I listened to an SGU podcast, and I'll give those guys one more try. They were a little smug on this last one, in their anti-acupuncture experiment interpretation diatribe.

My computer startled the hell out of me--for some reason the screen was flashing and the audio dropped out while I was on the cell phone. Turns out that it pauses iTunes automatically when my phone rings. Oh. Cool.

You aren't talking about Stargate Universe, are you?

So, if someone lists a house for rent on one website for one price and then lists it on craisglist for a lower price (by almost $500), they are obligated to rent it for the lower price, right?

eta: because I was interested in the house at the higher price but it was a bit out of our range. At the lower price, it's totally in our range and I want to sign the contract.

You aren't talking about Stargate Universe, are you?

Ah, no. No Lou Diamond Philips for me. Skeptics Guide to the Universe. These people are very angry.

they are obligated to rent it for the lower price, right?

You'd *think*. But I don't know how enforecable that is.

I had a meeting with mac's therapist today. She wants me to be prepared if there is another incident that puts us in the scope of police or dcf. I hadn't really let me brain go there. She wants to get a psychiatrist to do a full evaluation on mac so I can have a written report, also to establish a relationship with someone and to have a paper trail of that. She informed me what hospital to have him taken to if that is pressed by an outside force again.

Of course, because mac is bright and very intuitive, he is going to know that something is going on. She said it is going to be at least 2 months before we could to the evaluation because the psychiatrist and the whole process will have to be introduced slowly. She also said it is going to be pricey.

One more thing that most people are not going to understand, so I can't really share and vent. In most cases it is really great that mac presents so "normal" and unaffected. In other ways, it creates this huge gap between how people see him and the reality. I need to learn to just not share about this stuff with meatspace. Outside of here, there are like 3 people who kinda get it. Even family has to be reminded over and over again, and they sometimes still give me the attitude that makes me just loose it "that is just normal kid stuff".

t /vent

I'm glad you have the therapist to give you advice, even when it's hard and expensive.

Sorry you have so much to deal with, that sounds really rough.

I need to learn to just not share about this stuff with meatspace

That's a tough necessity. I wish you had more material support right around you.

oh msbelle! Many hugs to you and mac. I'm sorry it's been so hard lately.

msbelle, I don't remember -- do you belong to a parents-of-internationally-adopted-kids support group? (I know, like you have the free time!)

My boss adopted her 2 daughters from Guatemala, and she belonged to a group like that and found it HUGELY helpful with issues like this, especially because she's a single mom.

Like I said, I know your free time is limited, but maybe something like that would help -- and surely if Cincinnati has a group like that, NYC must have one (or more).