So! I have not been here in quite some time, again. It's not that I don't love you, LJ. It's that I am EATEN ALIVE by work. And it's just going to... stay like this. Forever. (It will end, I suppose, with my dissertation defense, but that's like a wall so high I can't see over it. Also known as March? Yeah ( Read more... )

There is seriously nothing weirder than randomly procrastisurfing (new word!) and....


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Am totally behind on fic, comments, life, everything: I was already tired to the bone when I got home last night, but then my dad developed his first neutropenic fever, and it was chaos -- trying to find the doctor, decide whether to go to the ER, get prescriptions from the extremely uncooperative walgreens (I had to go FOUR times before they ( Read more... )

my littlest brother but one just called to tell me that he passed his qualifying exam a few hours ago. This just a few months before he gets married in January. I feel incredibly old. If he gets his degree before I do, I'll have to shoot myself. Good god.

Yesterday was my father's birthday. It was filled with ADVENTURE ( Read more... )

~ my aunt is holding her own. We are hopeful. So that's good. (I am still a little dengue fever WTF is this the 19th century??? but that, as they say, is an entirely different matter.)

~ At Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing, Senator Klobuchar asks about the famous case of Edward vs. Jacob or the vampire vs. the werewolf. What is this, I don't ( Read more... )

...yesterday, I had a very bad Attack of the Evil Stomach Death... and realized I was running out of these gel tabs I take when pain strikes that I get from India. They're not perfect, but they are better so far than anything over-the-counter I get here, and my prescription stuff just makes me feel v. v. wacky in a way that I unprefer ( Read more... )

It's chemotherapy day ( Read more... )

Rest in peace, Teddy Kennedy.

I don't know why... but this death made me really sad. I know the world can't stop, nor should it. Change is good. Or at least inevitable. And it should be met with grace. But I am so tired of death. And... there's an American mythform that is just a bit poorer today. It was a myth I was fond of ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we went to the doctor for the results of the latest PET/CT scan. And the news was what the doctor called "mixed" and I call "sucktastic".

Doctor: (examines my dad much closer than usual) So, do you have any new pain? Any coughing? Any anything?
Kali's Dad: No...?
Doctor: No? Really? ...Really? Hmm. Are you sure(Kali & Kali's dad ( Read more... )