Kathy!!!! We've really missed you.

Our Puritan ancestors have a lot to answer for.

If suffering was noble, hospitals would be places of holy pilgrimage.

Timelies all!

{{{{{Buffistas}}}}}

(Sorry if I'm repeating myself, but I don't have anything else to contribute here.)

Jesus it's so great to see you all. Hi, Kathy! I have wondered aloud where you'd gone and how you were.

ita would be so chuffed and now I am going to go off and cry some more.

Yay Kathy, hi!!!

And what everyone else said about the sad saga of lack of sufficient painkiller. I empathize and would certainly support any donation to an appropriate organization or whatnot, but also, it would be kind of ...rude? Unethical? Something? To give out her information without her permission, does that make sense? I don't know if she'd want more than general details given out, to a doctor or an article or whoever, and I don't feel they are our details to give.

Good news of the day: the Sacramento airport found my drivers license and I paid fedex $10 to make a label and should get it back on Monday!!

Hi, Kathy!

Glad you got your license back, meara.

Don't get me started on nursing homes. goddammit I don't fear becoming an old lady whom no one ever visits, I fear being left with incompetent uncaring healthcare workers.

I have gotten no work done today. I guess I should feel bad about it, but I don't.

So... can I talk about my dinner yet? It was fucking delicious, salmon and quinoa, but the salmon was $5 PER PIECE. I think the frozen was vaguely cheaper, but I wanted it for tonight. I'm not sure what to do about this fact in my life. Cooking at home is supposed to be cheaper than eating out.

Just got home.

Quick update on my life over the past 2 1/2 years (omg, really???):

Went to the UK in the summer of 2012 for my first trip abroad. Had a great time.

Went to Ireland with my whole family (mom, sibs, and sibs in law) in September of last year. Also had a great time.

Dad had a stroke in March but is doing ok, if still not a lot of motor function in his right hand, which isn't helped by the fact he needs to get his right shoulder replaced, which is happening in a few weeks. My stepmom has leukemia and is going through bad days and okay days with that.

Oh, and I finally earned my MLIS, so I am a fully functional librarian as of a few weeks ago!! Still at my company I have been with for 22 years, though--they've gotten me to stick around by making me a co-project leader on something that I am the only one in the entire company who knows everything about it, except for my boss's boss who doesn't have the time for the project. I figure I will stay here until the end of the year and then start looking to see if I can get anywhere near my current salary at a public library. Probably not, but at least I can move up in that environment, as opposed to my current place.

Wow, Kathy! Other than the family's health problems that sounds so great! So good to have you back.

$5 for a salmon dinner still sounds like a pretty good deal, Jesse.

goddammit I don't fear becoming an old lady whom no one ever visits, I fear being left with incompetent uncaring healthcare workers.

so wrod