after six surgeries in eight days, he's finally closed.
hopefully he'll be in a rehab hospital before the new year.

and, my brother-in-law is dead ( Read more... )

now seeing how expensive chucks have become, i should have just asked for a pair from each of my siblings ( Read more... )

had a minor freak-out at my mother over buying clothes two hours ago.
still zonked from the adrenaline withdrawal.

stephen fry can't breathe for laughing.

the lakota nation withdraws from their treaties with the united stateslast night i got my dad telling family stories, and heard the story of how his father, overton, died in detail for the first time ( Read more... )

my grandma's chef got a nice write up in a richmond weekly.

it's diabetes.

strange things learned on this trip so far:

• when i was in pre-k or kindergarten, i got in trouble during a "everyone has ten fingers and toes" lesson by insisting (correctly) that my grandfather didn't.
• one of my brothers (the one who is jewish, the one where my parents had a say in the matter) is uncircumcised
we figured out how to get online ( Read more... )

( the first part )

really, this is the last thing i want to be doing, updating my livejournal, so here are the facts on the ground ( Read more... )