Grace, breathing is good. Don't scare your mama.

Headache is down a bit but I feel feverish and generally ick. Nap wasn't restfully. Got stuck in a bad dream and couldn't wake myself up. I thought I had, a couple of times but no.

My god, the Santa Monica hospital has changed! I was only going there for outpatient procedures since I regularised the process of the Westwood ER, and they moved those across the streets in at least early 2012.

It was a nightmare to navigate when I worked there, and judging by getting from 16th Street to the ER it's not gotten any better. But rebuilding a hospital without closing it down is no mean task. Westwood at least had the "luxury" of moving into empty digs.

I'm assuming Grace is colonised because she has exceptional circumstances. Is she the only one in the house who is? How does that normally work? I mean, why wouldn't you become colonised from proximity?

Sumi, it's the end of the season for Parenthood. It's up in the air as to whether there will be a season 5.

ita, I'm pretty sure we are colonized. But none of us have been admitted to a hospital that does nasal swabbing so we aren't officially MRSA, while she is. Most people who work in hospitals are colonized also. It's sadly common. So when Grace is in the hospital, she's not in contact isolation, but she is on isolation precautions. (I'd assume you were colonized too given your frequent flyer status... but if you aren't on antibios for 6 or 9 months after being colonized then they remove the designation....it is handy for getting a single room though).

That's interesting Kat--I'd never really thought much about it. And I am kinda curious about myself, but hey. As long as nobody's infected, it's all good.

As for Megan and the stars in her eyes, I told her reports of some very good and interesting people, and she, at a place where she's looking for her post-uni people was definitely happy that I had mine. I don't think the internet is the place for her to find what she's looking for--she doesn't have the sitting down patience for it. But she's between doubles partners now--she's travelling all the time, she's newly married but away from her wife, and even though there's a community of tennis players they are also her "enemies" periodically.

She's got a nutso close and flexible family, so her oldest sister can travel with her a fair amount (for someone who has three jobs...bless technology...and two children, one handciapped...bless extra-extended families), but that's a hard scenario. And I just talked myself into texting her.

Completely tangentially, I hadn't realised that Flashpoint was cancelled, and I missed the penultimate episode. Which...that last one was a doozy.

You know when you just need to step away from people before you start hating them?

The reasons suggested for why Judge Dredd can't be gay aren't coming from a place of well-established only wanting women.

The really really irritating point is that people are reacting based on the top half of an article, because the article explains that Judge Dredd's sexuality is not even up for discussion in canon.

God, people like to be upset.

Grace's nap did not help. Off of oxygen, her sats are still in the mid 70s. Not responding to anitbios... RSV? Hospital? BLARGH.

I might've given the tow truck driver my email. In a completely platonic fashion.

We were talking about the places we've lived, and he's out in Ellicott, fairly recently started up his own towing business (< 2 years) and taking classes after doing towing and cabbing in SF (moved to be closer to his family in NYC, but doesn't want to work there again,) doesn't get much into the city at all. So I was playing tour guide (even took us down 36th, but mostly because that was the easiest approach to drop the car off.) And he was so fascinated with what I knew. And I was like, I'm a homebody, and I've been here a mere while, but have had good recs from people who aren't and the like. And he was all 'this sounds really weird, and I don't mean to be but could I get your phone to ask you for info or maybe show me around?" I gave him my email.

It's both hilarious and bizarre.

I was playing tour guide

::raises eyebrow:: I know your euphemisms, young lady...

Oh, poor Grace, Kat. I hope you can clear whatever it is up with the least of trauma to you all.

NOT LIKE THAT.