Mia spent Thanksgiving and Xmas with us. Her mother is legally barred from seeing her, because her mother was physically and emotionally abusive.

So, she's got a lot of trauma there.

She and Matilda met at camp and their friendship deepened during Lockdown (even as Matilda lost a lot of her core friendships).

Mia lives in San Bruno (south of SF) with her dad and two older brothers.

I had just exchanged texts with her asking for her prom pictures and she seemed fine. Obviously not.

Oh, David, how rough! Poor Mia and Matilda and argh on the phone and vibing hard for good CT scans. That is all so much for all of you.

Everything feels so chaotic and consequential.

Because it is! What a brutal time for all of you. Hang in there.

That's really terrible, but it's not Matilda's fault.(Although anyone might feel a little guilty....hope her friend gets the support she needs, too) life is just really hard sometimes...we had a 2001 like that. We are not in paradise now, but sometimes we say "It's not like '01, " and it helps for a while... sorry that you're having yours now.

Oh poor Mia. And poor Matilda. I'm glad Matilda's SIM card situation was fixed.

Sending lots of good progress~ma and vibes to JZ this weekend.

I had M's leftover tacos for breakfast and it's delicious.

So our company put out a 20% off clearance online only coupon last week and the first couple of days were 30% off of Home clearance. and orders went crazy, especially for all this Xmas stuff that we were sure got transferred out (the company has made certain stores outlets and transfers clearance out and that's been semi chaotic) and today my team lead moved a stack of broken down boxes and found under it-- boxes of Xmas stuff that had been packed like it was going to be transferred and then (I guess) covered up with the boxes and forgotten. All this stuff we had to cancel the orders for because we couldn't find them. Getting almost all the clearance out has been great but there have been issues. Like this.

They are definitely not the same -- Plaquenil is an anti-rheumatic drug used for malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis; Doxycycline is an antibiotic BUT it's also used for malaria (which I just learned), like Plaquenil, so if you were prescribed the Plaquenil as a preventive for malaria, maybe that's why CVS subbed in the Doxycycline. (If not, then I got nothin'.)

I've been losing my hair, so I went to a dermatologist. She prescribed several drugs (she menitoned that lupus may be a cause of hair loss), and the plaquenil is one of them. I'll go back to CVS tomorrow.

Wait, Vortex, do you mean for once House is wrong and it IS lupus?

I really need a kick in the pants to get stuff done. Or really, a friend to come over and sit while I clean and work. Motivates me like nothing else (and there is a website where you can do that but it’s not the same)

Dear god. I just was reading an article and it said Ron DeSantis is only 44??? He’s younger than me?? I assumed he was like 64. That makes it worse how awful he is!

That makes it worse how awful he is!

Did you read his history as a JAG at Guantanamo? He fucking tortured people. He's thoroughly evil.

Did you read his history as a JAG at Guantanamo? He fucking tortured people.

Unfortunately, there's a scary sector of US voters who will see that as a plus, rather than a deal-breaker.