It's for college reunion, Tom, so I'll be up on the UWS (fair warning). But I get in 5/29 and I leave 6/4.

I'm watching a British show on selling houses, and the host gives a group of sellers ideas on moving their properties. One thing I've never understood is why houses have to be decorated and look lived in. The host said "And buyers can see what to use the rooms for." Is it that hard to see a room near the front of the house, not near the kitchen, as a living room without having a couch etc. in it? But I guess not everyone has had a life where the first reaction to an empty large room near the back is "Ooo, armor workshop!"

You'd have a hard time underestimating the imagination of a large percentage of the general public.

Just discovered I had overpaid on a credit card I am closing out and so I just used my overpaid balance to partially pay my gas bill. Thanks Atmos Energy for allowing online payment of less than the amount due.

Now setting up payments for the rest of the month's bills to see if I'll have enough in my balance to buy Broadway tickets.

I came by even though I should be grading because I was wondering if Nanita had been around. Sending lots of love to you.

Congrats Jessica! I have been sneak teaching food studies stuff and would so love to studying it in a real program.

And yay for your good news too, JZ. Sending your brother lots of ~ma

I just went with my mother to a church dinner thing, that included a "talent show" portion. Which included a thing I can't even fully describe, but suffice it to say, the person did a 10+ minute introduction to her >10 minute thing, and I already don't like her, so that was something. Also, we all sang a gospel song from Nagaland, which you should google to see how crazy the borders of India are.

I went for a run and then to dog class and then I went wine-tasting, and then to dinner, and that was my day.

Also the Girl Scouts were at the wine tasting, and I bought two boxes of Samoas. Nom.

I had lunch with a friend I hadn't seen in ten years, then went to Costco with a fried, then went dancing! Yay dancing! Tomorrow I fly home.

Buffistas, please send get-well-soon~ma for one of the ladies who lives at the house I work at. She has a seizure disorder and a compromised immune system. Starting the Monday before last, I've sat in the ER with her 3 times. First time, taking into account symtoms I described going back several weeks (staff who have been there even longer than me kept saying, she was just like this when she had kidney stones) the doc ordered a variety of tests then cut her loose with a script for Tamiflu when the swab for influenza came back positive. Went back with her a week later because she quit drinking fluids and no way am I going to loose someone to dehydration (local urgent care won't do IVs). They actually did some blood tests, urinalysis, and sent some of the urine sample off to be cultured. Blood work came back normal; 3 days later she got a script for an antibiotic because the culture showed a UTI. She started getting a bit better so yesterday I offered her a chance to get out of the house, just drive around a bit. She couldn't climb into her seat in the minivan, threw up, then could not walk back into the house. I called 911. This time, we pushed for a CT scan of her abdomen. Blood work and UA came back normal, CT scan showed kindney stones, but doc said they were not positioned to block anything or cause problems - so he suggested thst she was simply thst weak from influenza and UTI, and to gradually rebuild her strength by slowly increasing her activity level.

Today, staff called me a couple hours before I was due to come in for a shift saying she kept thowing up. I went in early. Our nurse called the on-call doc for the big clinic where this lady's PCP works, on-call doc says, let's get her some anti-nausea meds, and oh, by the way, none of the ER docs bothered to run labs on her seizure med levels, how about I suggest that to her PCP for the follow-up appointment you have scheduled for Monday.

I want the next time I call this person's dad to be about how much better she is doing.

Jeez, sounds like the universe could cut that girl a break. May the doctors figure it out for her pronto. UTI is no fun even without a lot of drugs.