Drew, I am so, so sorry.

Dear Powers That Be, kindly KNOCK IT OFF with the tormenting of my chosen family members. Start treating them nicely, dammit.

ND is in Florida until the 29th but will likely have to go home for awhile after that. We may see each other around the time we leave to fly to Connecticut to see my family.

Seriously, I'm just done. We need some good news.

Pix, I hope you are at least in less pain today.

{{Pix and ND}}

Conclusions from Shavuot: I have the best of friends on earth, and I do need to move out (again). Time with parents will cost me my sanity. The only problem: after spending most of the past nine years living with flatmates, I really need a place I'll love and feel comfortable with most, if not all, of its aspects and people and pets. Money aside, if I'll get one of my best friends to live with me, that would be great. If I'll get into serious relationship which will result in living together, even better.

(Living alone? Pfft. As much as I like it at (most) times, somebody that's not me gotta drive away the bugs and share the household duties and fuck-ups of old flats).

Fay, I hope you're alright.

Thanks, sj. I was better yesterday, but the pain got worse today. I suspect it's just a matter of nerves, though.

Oh gods, did I not say how worried I am about Fay?? Gah, I'm a bad friend lately. Fay, thinking of you and the Cat Daniel. Please check in when you can.

(((Pix))) I wish I could be there.

I'm sorry about your mother's caregiver's accident, ND.

Ah, ND, that's terrible news. I hope she recovers, and that your family can find someone who works out in the meantime.

IO(frivolous)N, it is sunny here, and I need to go to Target and to the grocery store. I need to get some bday gifts for my stepson. He will be 8 on the 29th, and his mom just informed us that he has decided he is a vegetarian. Summer in the midwest is a good time to explore this choice.

{{Pix}}

{{ND}}

I got another job offer. I need to consider this one a lot. It's a job that would look really good on my CV, but it's not so much what I really want to do. And I'd be working directly for somebody who I've never met or even talked to and don't know anything about, which I'd be pretty apprehensive about. Plus, I'd need to figure out the logistics of moving to Vancouver for a year, and then moving somewhere else next summer, and health care would be an enormous hassle -- I'd get health insurance after three months, but everything that I'm reading says that most Canadian doctors have a six-month waiting list for new patients, so by the time I got to actually see a doctor, it would be time for me to move again.