I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Kate P. - Feb 07, 2012 8:01:01 am PST #20738 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

As for the sonogram, they are a bit uncanny, especially since head-on they look so much like skulls, but then both my kids ended up looking like their profile scans.

Our hospital does, in addition to the regular sonogram, a 3D image of your child's face. (I don't know how common this is, but I know a few other people who have gotten them.) It's done by taking three images and using them to create a composite. I guess some of them turn out lovely, but ours turned out, well, deeply weird. Like, Uncanny Valley kinds of creepy. (Though M says at least now we know the Sprog looks like Milton Berle.) I don't like to look at it -- it just creeps me out.


Dana - Feb 07, 2012 8:02:04 am PST #20739 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I never watch reality TV except when I'm home sick. So far today, Tabatha's Salon Takeover, Supernanny, Big Cat Diary, and Animal Cops.


JZ - Feb 07, 2012 8:04:13 am PST #20740 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Go team 9th Circuit Court of Appeals!

Also, goodbye, Karen Handel. Nobody can say you didn't make an impact during your brief tenure, that's for sure.


§ ita § - Feb 07, 2012 8:04:43 am PST #20741 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

About how long will he need to recover from the surgery?

10 days. Don't have a date for the surgery yet. But I'm not in a "convenient" place for leaving work, either. Because every little bit helps.


Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 8:09:38 am PST #20742 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

JZ! WOOT!

Gotta read that opinion.


Nora Deirdre - Feb 07, 2012 8:09:46 am PST #20743 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Go team 9th Circuit Court of Appeals!

Also, goodbye, Karen Handel. Nobody can say you didn't make an impact during your brief tenure, that's for sure.

CO-SIGNED.


Sue - Feb 07, 2012 8:11:00 am PST #20744 of 30001
hip deep in pie

ita, my mom had cataracts removed while my dad was in ICU last spring. It was very simple. She was fine after only 4-5 days, and fit fro travel a week later. The issue was trying to get my stubborn mother to take her eyedrops, which she had to do for a few weeks.


Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 8:11:19 am PST #20745 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Man, I can't get through to the 9th Circuit website: it must be slammed, and DailyKos & SFGate don't have a link to the decision.


erikaj - Feb 07, 2012 8:11:58 am PST #20746 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is totally who reactionaries mean here when they say "activist judges" if I had money, I think I would send them muffins every week. Arizona would be even more of a hellscape without them.


Burrell - Feb 07, 2012 8:13:29 am PST #20747 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

10 days. Don't have a date for the surgery yet.

I can see why you want to be there for him, for you sister, for all of them. But as Kat pointed out already, being there to listen to everyone IS doing something.