Hong Kong! I wouldn't exactly say that Melbourne is on the way, but it is in the same hemisphere...

Hong Kong sounds like it would be cool. I hope it works out for you, ND.

That is very exciting ND! Wow! I am anxious to hear more when you are able to talk more about it.

Trudy, as suggested above I am taking the approach of expressing great concern that my friend is going to burn out with the ongoing stress of long term care on top of all her other stresses. Also I am insisting that she get mom to another doctor since this one obviously isn't taking a very serious situation seriously.

You're a good friend, Laura.

Of course, we already knew that :)

That's very exciting, ND! Good luck, or break a leg, or whatever's appropriate. ;). I do enjoy that sometimes there are things I want to say but not on Facebook or somewhere, but want to share (or vent), and this place is good for that.

SDs are not a mental illness, damn it.

Oh, right, I meant to respond to that earlier.

And...what she said.

I sit corrected.

Still? Denial.

Yesterday, my current job emailed me, saying they needed to know by today at 5 whether or not I'm staying next year. So I emailed the job that I'm waiting to hear from to ask when I should expect to hear from them (since they'd said it would be sometime this week.) And now, I'm waiting. And waiting. And waiting.

I hate waiting.

Things I have done while waiting: dusted everything I own. Made a spreadsheet of the double coupon policies of every Weis supermarket in Pennsylvania. (People on a couponing facebook group were asking "Does anyone know which Weis stores fully double coupons?" on practically a daily basis, and every post would be replied to by a hundred people saying, "Lehigh doesn't!" "Altoona does!" and fifty people saying, "What does fully double mean?" and my options were either kill all of them or solve the problem. So I went with solve the problem, and made a chart, and posted it to the group.) I also made some curried tempeh mango salad, and sorted recycling, and tried on sports bras. I'm running out of things to do while I wait. (Well, my living room floor is currently a mess of coupon scraps and newspapers. I could clean that up.)

And now our cat Shadow is showing signs of neurologic problems. Universe, we do not need Hubby's cat dying in the middle of this, OK??

Well, they got back to me, saying that they still don't know -- the hiring decision still has to go through several more layers of administration. I replied to my current job, saying that I do plan to stay. If the other one hires me, then I'll figure out what to do then.

Sounds like the best you can do with what you've got, Hil.