40 minutes on hold with student loan people and i'm STILL out $90. pppppthththth

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“I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane... The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in ( Read more... )

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so, now i know why the city can't set me up on autopay for my water bill - it's a government entity, and if they retained my account info, it would become part of the public record. ouch. in that case, i'm happy to push my payments.

1:30 AM - Purple shabbat grape juice and challah vomit, I put the sheet in the wash right away, it came out clean, Kaiser Advice gave me WAY TOO MUCH info (all I wanted to know was that it was a bad idea to put children's motrin on a pukey stomach), and I had to put to use my master's degree and my strong verbal skills to sort out the small bit of ( Read more... )

I think Asher has the same thing Butternut does. He's had a mild fever for the past two evenings, and has felt kinda crapped out. High Holidays are over, and we hope to be moving into Sukkot/Halloween mode soon.

she's gone

Tonight, Asher got in bed with Pam. He stroked and kissed her, touching her neck, collarbone, upper arm, shoulder, kissing her and breathing her in. He did this repeatedly for a full two or three minutes. He looked at her and leaned in, and whispered to her, "Pammy, I'm going to be sad when you're going to die."

Two days ago, Pam started up with a new complication. Her legs swelled up, and it’s a result of the tumor pressing on her inferior vena cava (the big vein that goes down from her heart into her legs). We had hoped they could zap the tumor around the vein, but a scan today determined the tumor is too diffuse and radiation would ding her kidney, ( Read more... )