HOORAY MSBELLE!!!!

Good luck with your mom's wbc, ita. I don't know anything about that, but I am rooting for her numbers to go up where they are supposed to be.

WOO HOO MSBELLE!!

Watching Ellen, and Timothy Olyphant is one of the few actors I think is even more attractive out of character. Mmmmm.

Also, I just read the cutest email from my cousin applying to be a teen advisor to a project at my job. Aw!

So far my sister blames herself, and no doubt my mother blames *herself*. I haven't asked my father whose fault he thinks it is yet, but at least I'm pretty sure I'm off the hook. My mother, with disdain for how disease calls the shots, and incredible optimism and a desire to not act like a sicky (hey, maybe my sister should sit her down and make her watch The Princess Bride--instant lead balloon--while we stuff her full of leafy greens) had laid out a schedule around her chemo that had her lecturing and marking again. Given she's useless chemo week and she's now one week off, all that will have to be re-jiggered.

Translation would be highly appreciated, Burrell, as are everyone's good wishes and consolation.

Oh, good god, msbelle. That's the best two week wait ever! Good on you! (Have you done anything highly illegal you need erased off your records, stat? I mean, not that I know how, but I understand...stuff happens)

I just had to send out an email with a bit of "Why the fuck isn't everyone at the same alert level as I am?" The middle went like this:

The first change is “OMG, Compliance violations! Fix this now!” level of priority, and the second is somewhere around “That’s no good—we should fix it while we’re fixing the other stuff.”¹ Our goal is to complete QA by this Friday, so if you could do your darndest to get the queries modified and back into QA as soon as you can, it would be highly appreciated. And then there’s the vendor wiping of QA, etc.

Also—the query that generates who’s qualified and who’s not should be run before our next “initial” file feed. (for your interest, I rank that at “Well, if we do it now, we don’t need to remember to do it later.”)

¹: If you need my full priority list, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Get on it, people!

YAY MSBELLE!!!!

YAY MSBELLE CONGRATS!

ita, it's nobody's fault but the cancer. And we all know cancer sucks. No blame. She's going to be okay.

msbelle, you clearly wowed them. Congratulations!

YAY MSBELLE!

I have my fingers crossed for ita's mother, but I have no knowledge to share. I hope you can connect with the translators.

As Amy says, it's nobody's fault, and there's nothing your mother could have done to make more white cells. The scheduling thing sucks, but I came to the conclusion that, in addition to its other faults, cancer likes to be as inconvenient as possible. The odds are high that it's just a minor setback, and certainly not an unexpected one.

I'm sure it's no one's fault, ita.

Congratulations, msbelle! Go you!