9am, I think.

I think this is the last interview hoop I have to jump through. Apparently there's a lot of process you can bypass when the VP personally recruits you? But I'm not counting on anything until I have an offer letter.

A Midnight Interview sounds perfect for you.

Seriously -- I just set up a 6am call for someone, and felt terrible even suggesting it! But time zones.

My older brother is in rehab as of last Friday. Unfortunately it is only a six day stint. At the least my mother and little brother have almost a week of silence and peace.

Little brother has quit his job and is making no efforts to find a new one, move out, go to college, or anything productive. We'll see how that goes once older bro comes back.

I've actually never been more grateful to my older bro for calling during a conversation with my mother, and she had to let me got to speak to him. Our two hour conversations would be a lot shorter if I wasn't listening to her also yell at the dogs and talk to my little bro and father during the same time period. I feel like wallpaper when she does that.

Fingers crossed Jilli

I'm out, finally.

They gave me some (more, Jesus) dilaudid as well as Toradol, and the sheer panic from this morning is now gone and although I'm still tender to the touch (no bra, bad bra!) my range of motion isn't as suddenly painfully curtailed, and it's no longer radiating in as many directions The general ER assessment was "I've never seen you like that." With a side of "Oh, we hadn't realised you had neck problems." Yeah, probably because you don't read things in the circular painseeker file in any detail. I've mentioned it a number of times.

I have a doctor's appointment for about 24 hours from now, and I'm trying to not think about lying down (every position so far hurts, and I am not inured to this pain in the least). I am considering sleeping sitting up tonight.

Burrell, if you could help me out with picking up prescriptions from the Walgreen's near me, I'd be forever indebted to you. If you could give me a lift there, or I could give you the information for them to just put it on my card, either way--eternal love. I've had dilaudid too recently to drive anywhere tonight,

Hey, Jilli, congrats! Best of luck with the next step.

Oh, ita. I'm glad you are home and had some success in the er.

Best of luck, Jilli!

My cats got a reprieve from dental work tomorrow (well, and me too, I wasn't sure how I was going to pull tomorrow off logisticwise, never mind the fretting.) All dental surgeries have to be rescheduled.

Oh § ita §, I hope you can get some rest in a seated position. May there be a solution that doesn't involve ER visits proposed tomorrow.

Interview~ma midnight edition will have to be sent before I go to sleep because that would be way past my bedtime even without the time difference.

Oh, ita. I hope it gets better soon. I've been cursing my body lately because I hadn't had any migraines in a while, and then have had three in the past week and a half, and am not happy...but my pain is very mild (and well controlled by drugs) compared to yours. :(

I love my daughter, but long term, this is going to be a challenge. Once she finishes school, she should have the time to work full time and find her own place. Right now, earning that kind of money, plus paying off the debt she and D got into, isn't going to happen.

Yeah, that doesn't sound long-term workable at all. Can she get a super cheap place with some folks? Sublet? House-sit?

Damn, I know a good studio-and-a-half apartment for cheap, but wrong part of the country.

Apparently, avocados now make me burpy. Great.

Apparently, I am getting a ipad mini for my birthday, given the cover that just arrived for one. I think my parents are trying to keep my tech current (I'm probably due for a laptop upgrade soon. Lord knows I need to upgrade the OS, and who knows what that'll do to performance.) Maybe I'll use it for more than cat pics and when I travel?