Good news first: congratulations Amy on the new job!

And condolences to Consuela and the other here who lost a friend.

And yipes on the school shooting. I also heard on the news about some teenager who was caught bringing a loaded gun to school (10 rounds). Scary stuff! Makes me wonder what is wrong with people and how do we start teaching them that lives matter?

(BTW almost wrote "lives natter" just then)

Makes me wonder what is wrong with people and how do we start teaching them that lives matter?

Yeah, this is a huge question here in New Orleans. How do we get to the root of what causes this culture of violence?

Sorry to hear about your friend, 'suela.

Thanks, Frank.

There's a memorial on Sunday afternoon I'm going to try to get to; more as a representative of the fannish community than anything else. She knew a lot of people and her family would appreciate that, I suspect.

Jesus, today is a fuckery, as my family would say.

I just left the sleep doc's office after waiting 35 minutes, some of it in the clinic room. I'm working today--I have a deployment this weekend. I have calls I need to be on. I passed her on my way out, and she said she was going to be in in five, but no. No way to have a proper consultation and find out why she's stopped renewing my prescription in that little time.

I refuse to feel bad about it either.

At 12:30 the project was a no go. I took a breather, because I feel like hell (they don't specifically say not to wear two lidocaine patches at once, do they? Because my back hurts from top to bottom....) but when I came back online it looked like THE ONLY ISSUE preventing us from deploying has been resolved, so the only issue is that pretty much has to push us over budget.

But it's not like we could stop now, right? Right?

*And* I just got a call from the home nurse saying two things: the home health care company has the pain medication orders from my neuro, and they're checking coverage. She says I could have a nurse here Sunday; also--neuro is sending the same orders to the ER and saying (for the umpteenth time) GIVE THIS TO HER STOP SENDING HER AWAY OR THREATENING HER.

So, for all his "You're 44!" diagnosing last week, he seems to be hitting everything hard for this treatment one way or another. I don't think it has to do with the OTT "what if no one gives me painkillers?" email I sent him when Westwood barred me like Gandalf.

She says I could have a nurse here Sunday

To give you meds? It seems to me that that would be much preferable to you having to spend hours and hours at the ER every weekend. And presumably that would be regularized and not subject to the subjective decision-making of the ever-changing ER staff!

Oh, damn, ita !, I hope this all works out. This fuckwadderypolooza is ridic and needs to stop.

She knew a lot of people and her family would appreciate that, I suspect.

Was her family aware of her active online life? I know that if I died, my parents would have no idea that there are just as many, if not more, People on the Internet as people in real life who would care. I hope her family understands how loved she was by people who never met her.

Was her family aware of her active online life?

I believe so. She was a writer and lived in LA for a long time, and hung out with TV writers: fandom was very much overlapping with her offline life.

In fact, at one point she lived with the guy who played the Uruk-Hai Lurtz in the Tolkein movies.

Ooh, good luck with everything, ita.

How do we get to the root of what causes this culture of violence?

Absolutely.

In much lighter news, I am feeling good about myself for having delegated the tiniest task. I hate not having any direct reports, but having people around who can do things for me -- it always feels like a favor.