It's okay if you imagine the whole joke like a Warner Bros. cartoon, where at the end the kitty gets swallowed up whole in a big gulp and you see her eyes blinking in the darkness of the doggie's tummy, and then she crawls back out as the doggie hacks up a "hairball". Then it's okay.

Ha! Perfect. Now it's funny. Yay!

I am so glad Drew is going to get out today. We thought he would be out this morning maybe, but ah well.

I just set up my retirement account. I feel all fiscally responsible. (If I'd been really responsible, I would have done more research, rather than just following the recommendations for putting together a "moderate" portfolio, but I've got classes starting tomorrow. I figure the recommendations will at least get me something reasonable for now, and I can change stuff around later if I want to.)

For those who have seen the "Sherlock" TV series recently of the BBC (Coming this fall to Masterpiece Theater on PBS)

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Sort of spoilery for those who haven't see the mini series yet.

Still not funny for me, but again, we just lost our cat that way.

I know, DJ. I'm really sorry.

Still not funny for me, but again, we just lost our cat that way.

That's awful. I'm sorry.

We are arranging our office so that it is more conducive to it being a guest room... BECAUSE SMONSTER'S COMING TO TOWN NEXT WEEK YAY!

ENVY!

What brenda said. smonster was in my dream the other night. We were meeting at the airport and then we were supposed to pick up my roommate D from a party but we saw the airport had a disco so we decided to stay and dance.

I'm sure there are at least some reasons it works that way, but it's not very transparent for the patient, so it can often seem like "whenever we get around to it."

I think a large part of it is that patients who are ready to be released are (almost always) by definition the healthiest in the hospital, and therefore a pretty low priority unless the hospital is short on rooms.