At some point this weekend we have to sneak into her purse and steal her vicodin. That'll be fun.

I'm this close to picking my brothers up from the airport tomorrow and just handing off responsibility to them.

Easy to say from where I'm standing, but DO IT. I mean, seriously--you're here on hand for all of this drama and trauma, and I'd totally get if my sister just threw her hands up in the air and went incommunicado for a while.

Yeah, I know. Life is rarely practical that way. But it would be nice.

I am sitting here like a dork firing up calculators on all my devices. The iPod one is cute skeumorphism--you rotate into landscape, and it's a scientific calculator! Portrait it's just a basic one. That's lovely. The Android one works the opposite way. if you select scientific, then it swaps to landscape. On the tablet, I mean. Ice Cream Sandwich. On Jellybean the default calc on my phone is flat tiles, not slightly shaded like ICS, or totally fake buttons on the iPod. Office Calculator is so tastefully coloured, also on the tablet., And it has "tape".

I love all these visual metaphors, but I don't know if I have any reverse Polish. It's not really a calculator party if reverse Polish isn't invited.

I hope it all goes okay in the end, Suela. And I get wanting sibs to take over some and understand how awful and stressful it can all be. Because it is and people don't understand it until they live some of it.

Humanity jumped the shark for me when I learnt how complicit everyone could be in the systematic oppression of everyone else--whether it was through malice, shortsightedness, oppression of themselves...we're all pretty awful.

Yeah, realizing this was upsetting. I shall henceforth call it humanity jumping the shark. Since I didn't realize the Native Americans owning slaves, I'll add that to the list.

Bandicoots are real things?!? Why are all of the words that I didn't realize referred to actual animals Australians. Puggles, bandicoots...

I did not know that Native Americans kept black slaves. Was this common?

I don't think it was common and I think it only happened fairly late in the history of slavery. Because before that slaves frequently ran away to the west and often became absorbed into Indian tribes. Which is why you get things like Black Seminoles. And also why most African Americans today have some Native American blood.

Holocaust survivors who'd settled in South Africa and were cool with apartheid -- that is when humanity jumped the shark for me.

They were relatives of a friend. I was about 14. Something in my brain shorted-out.

I got folded into MFNlaw's family for TG, and it was awesome. I ended up talking to her mom for a long while and I suppose it should come as no surprise that she and I could talk as easily as Maria and I. Heh.

Now I just have to hope my cats let M sleep in. They came back downstairs when I did, but I expect all bets are off when I go up to bed. They were enthralled with a human in the spare bed!

I have no idea how I'm still upright and not loopy. We'll call it good food and company. Sure, I don't follow the bursts of italian and spanish , but the tone is all right there. Very thankful for them taking me in today.

ARGH. I have been up since 3. K left for Zion about an hour ago and I'm already tired. I should go back to bed, but am feeling hopeless at the thought of falling asleep and being woken again.

Easy to say from where I'm standing, but DO IT. I mean, seriously--you're here on hand for all of this drama and trauma, and I'd totally get if my sister just threw her hands up in the air and went incommunicado for a while.

Yeah, I know. Life is rarely practical that way. But it would be nice.

What ita said. Good luck, Suela. If nothing else, Monday will come.

You can leave the house, right, Juliebird? Go to the movies. Or whatever.

Drat, the one today-only special from Lands End I was going to get is already sold out.

ION, I'm going to hang out with my mom! My dad is going to his day program, and she has the day off work, so I'm sure she feels like she's playing hooky, but I don't know when we last spent time just the two of us. It will be nice! I continue to be thankful that I like my family.

We are just getting ready to go do Thanksgiving.