They did make that show.

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I just realized one of the schools was my grad school.

t rolls eyes

Wow, we're all sick. More health~ma to erin, Teppy, Barb and everyone else who needs it.

Teppy, if you keep having breathing problems, then I echo the cries of "urgent care!" But if it helps, your symptoms sound a lot like mine, and TG telephoned my doc on Thursday and was told it's bad 'flu that's been going around. Really bad, but 'flu. But I am not a doctor nor do I play one on etcetera, so.

Fever went back up yesterday, but seems to be down properly now. Hoping for the ability to leave bed today. And to eat food!

oooh, prescripton cough syrup w/ codeine is, like, the BEST THING EVAH. Imagine sleeping! Without coughing! And when you wake up in the middle of the night coughing, all you have to do is swallow another dose and then back to magic land.

I've been taking codeine to sleep. It helps a lot. I need some cough syrup though - hacking my lungs up. I won't get to the doctor now because it's the weekend, so no prescription stuff for me, but Tesco's sells the best glycerin cough syrup in existence, so I'll be sending TG to get some of that (if she isn't already sick of running my illness-related errands. Which she probably is).

Can't remember if I congratulated you, Aims - if not, huge congratulations on the teaching job! That's fantastic. I hope it goes really well.

Glad to hear you got a new truck, Andi and DCJ. I hope it serves you well.

Utterly amazed to hear that Hil and Sparky get parents calling to ask for higher grades. Never once happened when I was teaching young adults. I'll be interested to see if the university students I teach next semester have more involved parents (although I doubt it). Maybe if I were teaching at Warwick or Oxford!

omnis, that's weird. (The most eventful thing that's happened at my uni since I've been there: students setting waste paper bins on fire.)

OMG, it is so windy outside that it is super super loud out and I can't sleep. (also I had upsetting nightmares about missing my flight).

I am seated in the RBC Center for my sister's college graduation!!! Cum laude and everything! Expect a graduate n post, this goes on for two hours.

Yay! Go smonster sis!

Mama's crying happy tears, sis is texting, I did our family whistle so she could see us, and we're still in the processional.

Awesome!

How the hell early in the morning do they start these things?

Music started at 8:30 am, processional at 9. Getting out the door this morning was, as usual, a comedic farce.

We've now had a hackneyed baseball metaphor, cheesy country and Christmas lyrics, and some unfortunately placed robe seals that look like pasties. Sis is bored, I told her to consider it practice for a lifetime of meetings.

Dear god, the speaker intro is lasting ten minutes. Just ascend, already.

smonster, do you know if you are coming to KC, and if so, are you staying with a friend?

Because today's KC Groupon is for a great hotel deal -- AMAZING, really -- at Q hotel. $74 for a one night stay and a massage; it's a sweet, green boutique hotel in Westport.