Fay!(Ari) Talk dirty to me, baby(/Ari) You should just explain you're a sexy singleton, like Bridget Jones...of course, she figured that out and got coupley, but hey. I also swear by taking cranberry concentrate tabs every day, esp. in summer. I've not had bladder problems since Sept 11. But looking at the tower footage does make me have to pee violently to this day. It's like Proust, but disgusting.

erin, that's a dreadful situation. But you're right - it's a very good thing that the daughter has survived.

Fay, heh - I would have responded in exactly the same Anglo-Saxon, painfully polite way you did. There are just some situations where it's really hard to know what to say, much as you'd like to be delightfully rude.

My only attempts at rudeness tend to be when I'm dealing with disablism. Even so, I'm not very good at it, and tend mostly to get stressed and short-tempered, which is counter-productive. I wish I had sarcastic and/or cuttingly rude comments on hand for every situation. Especially for inappropriate questions. "I was bungee jumping off Buckingham Palace and the cord broke." "I was running away from an evil black smoke monster, and fell over a cliff." "A bear tried to eat my legs." "It's none of your business what I'm doing in this wheelchair, you stupid wanker."

Mmm. *Very* strong tea. That's a good start to a day.

I think my cats are getting better organised. As soon as i started running the bath water (they both get a bath every week) Nico ran into the storage area, looked for the mini tub i use for them, saw that it wasn't there, and ran back to the bedroom. There i swear to almighty dog he NODDED at Mal before hiding under the bed. Mal immediately ran behind the fridge where he knows i can't extract him. Argh.

erin, get the hose! OK, so that might make a mess in the apartment, but, when said with a Mr. Burns "Release the hounds" type of voice, it was rather funny in my head. Glad your feeling a little bit better. Ya, a crappy situation all around. Hopefully the girl pulls through in ICU, and the mother is hung from her toenails till her head explodes from blood rushing to it.

Fay, as we have learned today, it sounded like you needed an Israeli at your table. Since a) they will tell the bloke to bugger off, and b) most have military training, and could administer some sort of karate chop to the larynx shutting him up immediately.

Today was closing night for the season. Strike this week of the gear and scenery. Woot. Tuesday is the last day with lazy-all-I-wanna-do-is-smoke-and-whine assistant. Now I need to figure out some nice PC words to tell him why we aren't renewing his contract for next season, so he isn't pissy and steal shit, or, I dunno, slash my tires or something.

Dang I just can't keep up these days. I skipped about 400 posts to say {{{bitches}}} I love you guys.

Grandfather's update:

Renal failure, in a post-cancerous, CVAs, and heart-attack(s)y body. He's awake, recognize people yet not-really-there. The family decided to go with the DNR policy. Nobody's too sure if he's in pain. He's clearly in discomfort, but not sure about actual pain. Dad sounds OK, yet disturbed.

Now, my grandfather's also being known as having Lazarusian skills: after all, he's dying professionally since 89'(shit you not). To know that I'll feel better when I'll see him, even with the chance that this time, he will die, actually makes me feel bad. I realized that about 50% of the times I saw him the past 10 years, it was in hospitals. And some of the times I said goodbye.

I really need to do some things. Got statistics to solve, and actually other really fun stuff to read, but I can't really concentrate when I worry to things I shouldn't worry about, yet for some reason, can't help not to.

This is great.

{{{}}} to the Bitches who need them.

I'm sorry, Shir. Much peace~ma to you and your family.

it's "inhumane" to leave her on Memorial Day

Was your mom or someone close to her in the armed forces?

Gah, {{{shir}}} right back atcha. One would hope that he is pumped full of painkillers at this point, yes? My work with hospice care in the US made it seem that medical professionals are all for massive painkiller use in terminal patients, i can only hope that is true everywhere.

Oh Shir-- so much ~ma to you and the family, babe.

erin, I saw that late yesterday and was just freaked. What a horrible situation.

{{{{Shir}}}}

Hi, Laga!