the lists of extolling your awesomeness.

You guys are awesome. You really made my evening.

I booked my plane tickets for the on-campus interview. There weren't too many flights available -- there are just a few flights each day into and out of the airport here, and since this is less than two weeks away, a lot of them were already full -- so I'm going to have to miss a few more classes than I'd planned on, but my officemate said that she'd cover most of them for me. They haven't let me know yet what sort of talk they want me to prepare for the interview, if any.

And your friend might be fun meara , but at the moment i don't like her.

Yeah, I'm not too pleased with her either.

Also not pleased my throat still hurts. Grr, sickness. Went to dinner (at the "Southern-Cuban Fusion" food truck) and met up with a friend, which was fun. But now I"m home and like "I want to go dancing. Or...I could go to bed". The ice cream I just ate probably didn't help (but felt good on my throat!)

And if I talk about it

So get this. And, yeah, it doesn't help but I really get it. And maybe live it too often.

Tonight I Adulted though. I took a few steps.

Connie, I can ask some questions of PJ who went through a self donation bone marrow transplant many years ago, if you would like. She was surfing long before she should have been so she reminds me of Hubby's determination and strength. Buffistas sent her puzzles and things (Seattle-istas donated blood) while she was recovering.

Connie, I can ask some questions of PJ who went through a self donation bone marrow transplant many years ago, if you would like.

Yes, I would love to hear about people who went through it successfully. How did she cope with the loss of all acquired disease resistance?

She's gotten some weird (for adults) diseases, honestly, and had to suffer through them. Her kid gave her Hand, Foot and Mouth disease a few years ago. And she gets vaccinated. Due to the whole new immune system, she also gets her titers tested before vaccinating.

But she's doing great. Does an insane boot camp at her gym a few times a week, runs after two kids they adopted after the transplant and is so very alive. Adopting kids did take out her surfing habit but that was just being a parent, nothing to do with the bone marrow transplant.

I'll email you. It's a scary place but there are good stories too. They really happen.

Fortunately the odds of Hubby running into malaria, scarlet fever, and Denguy fever again are low. A white, American young man in the 70s with a pass that let him take any military flight to anywhere went a lot of places.

Bonny- that dream was amazing, thank you for sharing! Made me cry a little. Possibly because my hormones are already wonked, but also because it's such a lovely, healing metaphor. There's a lot to be said for the unflagging devotion of a canine companion. Sometimes I'm a little sad that early experiences scared me off dogs for life. But I bed my cats would be down with eating some debt cake for me, should the need ever arise.

Thanks, everyone. I had a massage today (which had been rescheduled for 3 weeks running, so long overdue for my current treatment schedule) and my out of control heart rate has magically disappeared. Apparently I just needed a massage to get rid of the racing heart and nausea. Good to know! I'm gonna have to put that on a sticky note someone to remind myself next time i start freaking out about things over which i have zero control (I really don't respond well to not being in control of my life or body. See: no children.)

Behold my diminutive scholar:

Adorable! He looks like he's going to Postal Academy.

On Discworld.

But I bed my cats would be down with eating some debt cake for me, should the need ever arise.

Harvey totally would, no questions asked. Sammie would if it were made of chicken.