My friend Sandy's dog Gracie (who has cancer too)is refusing to eat dog food so Sandy's giving her whatever she wants: this week, for example, I know that she's had prime rib and roast chicken (from Whole Foods).

Also, the old burger and rice standby.

My former supervisor just stopped me in the hall to ask about Hubby. Nominally just a courteous gesture, but he had to chase after me from his office to do so, and he's not someone I'm in the habit of speaking to casually. It all felt weirdly significant in some way. He's an odd man, to me, very local, with little experience of the world outside of the Utah Mormon sphere. He finds the tale of Hubby's health etc. to be very disturbing and he doesn't know how to react, especially as I am very reticent about talking about it to people who are acquaintances-not-friends. He always strikes me as wanting to say "You're making that up," because I don't think he can conceive of living a life like mine. This encounter felt like he wanted to dabble in some high drama, which is probably unkind to him, but it's so completely out of the blue for him to make such an effort to find out what's going on.

Go on, Sister Girl! and I do mean Sister -

Today, “60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns” sent a letter to federal lawmakers urging them to pass the Senate health care legislation. They decried the “false” information floating around about abortion provisions and said that the bill’s “historic new investments” for pregnant women are the “REAL pro-life stance.”

Go, them!

Stupak responded to that with something like, "When I want an opinion, I don't ask nuns." He says he talks to bishops.

Stupak responded to that with something like, "When I want an opinion, I don't ask nuns." He says he talks to bishops.

I saw that, and it was really horrible, not to mention offensive.

Stupak responded to that with something like, "When I want an opinion, I don't ask nuns." He says he talks to bishops.

The nuns wield the metal-edged rulers.

Damnit, Vortex, quit confusing me! One day you're all "Hey, look, top Vatican staff say Harry Potter is the Devil's spawn!" and I'm all, Dudes, that's it, I'm outta there, and the next day you're all "Hey, look, nuns kick ass and rock the house for social justice!" and I'm all, Yeah, baby, yeah! You're giving me total theological whiplash.

I sent out one more job application today and found a few more where I'll apply. Also wrote a few pages of my dissertation. I think the dissertation is almost done, except for a few things that I'm not sure about that I emailed my advisor about and he hasn't gotten back to me.

Rachel Maddow did a segment on Stupak taking on the nuns last night, and intro'd it with the oh-so-true words, "I have several nuns in my family, and believe me, you don't want to mess with them. They will cut you."