So the news of the day is that Stepmother fell and broke her hip at around 3 this morning. ( and here I go with flat affect )

Just ran across an essay about ruts and routines and when shattered one can start anew. That stopping old damaging habits, relationships, whatever is difficult and painful. Hindu goddess never not broken.

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thespian suggested Clover (yes, like the food trucks, but it is a real restaurant). There are more than one; this is the Inman Square place. 7:30pm, please let me know.

Here is the link

http://www.yelp.com/biz/clover-cambridge-2
It was an Arisia, and I am reminded that the cons ( Read more... )

1) Positive, in that the knitting makes for community, support, and purpose; sad in that the context is elderly homeless in Japan after last year’s earthquake. Positive in that at least it’s better than after Kobe, when over 200 elderly died alone and not immediately found, in the temporary housing: Japanese Elderly Knit a Safety Net.

2) You may ( Read more... )

need to reread:
on dating black belts. What makes a grownup?

I don’t watch TV news very often, and haven’t been near it after a catastrophe for some long while. I remember noting that bits of towns completely wiped away and 200 ish dead across the South is, by the numbers, about 1/50th of what Japan endured last month ( Read more... )

BTW, if you're a free user and you want to evaluate whether being a paid LJ user is cool, etc, they're offering a two week free trial of paid account status
In other news, my eyelid is swollen and hurts and I'm not sure what to do about it beyond the hot compresses I was doing last night ( Read more... )

I'd thought, as I kept adding cryworthy things to the prior post, that it was just that sort of a newsday. Then I realized how upset I was about a scheduling snafu I've been watching/trying to correct, which isn't ultimately my problem (except for the time I've let it consume) and then I went to the cafe, for no particular reason other than I'd ( Read more... )

So the morning started perhaps uncleverly - despite the very first picture in this article about Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov's re-entry death in 1967 being enough to start tears*, I kept reading through the whole story, which reflected on accounts from a rereleased biography of Yuri Gagarin. It got worse, not better, as I read. The previous ( Read more... )

Let me say that I really hate the new thing that comes up when one tries to go to washingtonpost.com/health. And I guess I"m going to need to start paying for NYTimes.

Anyway.
boston hospital team performs first full face transplant in us(Warning: A pic of the Dallas Wiens, pre-transplant, is included below the fold in the article. It's ( Read more... )