It's the death toll that is stopping me. If I'm following someone's story, I don't want to be attending their funeral halfway through the book. Multiple times. I'm well aware that life is grim and unfair, but I'm interested in the fate of people, not the fate of worlds, and if the person's story ends halfway, so do I.

What Connie said. I was madly in love with the first book and read the second and third (this was before any others had come out) but just couldn't take the death toll anymore.

It's hard to stay hydrated when you have to vacuum yourself off and leave a sealed environment every time you want a drink. File under: job problems.

Yeah, we'll see how I handle the death toll. I am attached to a lot of characters already! I know I wasn't supposed to be!

Dashing to the end...I swear I will go back and read the 150 posts I skipped...to say, every vet visit should be like this.

So my therapist is leaving the practice and so we have 2 more sessions and she's finding me another therapist to see in the practice.

I knew this wasn't going to be a long term thing but she is a good therapist. I hope that the new one and I work well together.

So many hooops to jump through! I have to get condo insurance before the underwriter will sign off on the loan. Insurance company needs to know when I will take ownership, to start the policy effective date. Bank doesn't know when they will be ready for closing until they have underwriter approval. Is anyone else sensing a loop here? Yes, it's all being worked out. Just batshit crazy, I tell you what.

And they wonder why home ownership is down.

All of my closings have been giant clusterfucks. The next step is usually an obscure document they need immediately.

that's the same as the last 3 steps.