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1. We had tornadoes come through our town on Wednesday night. I didn't even realize anything bad had happened until everyone started texting us to see if we were okay; sticks didn't even blow down in our yard, but not even a mile away, so much destruction. A colleague's house was really damaged, trees down everywhere, the roof on the funeral home blew off, some damage on campus to roofs. Third Street was evacuated Wednesday night because of a gas leak. School was cancelled on Thursday. Thankfully no one was killed. Feeling very lucky right now.

2. About a week ago, Sammy started sneezing alarmingly, like lots of sneezes in a row. So Josh took him back to the vet on Friday. He got a clean bill of health from the vet; the word perfect was used re: his physical exam. So now we are giving him allergy pills. Sammy makes that kinda hard because he doesn't like wet food. He rejected the pill pockets we bought. He rejected cream cheese. But we discovered that we can coat the pill with butter so it doesn't stick and just pop it on the back of his tongue, and that works pretty well.

3. Mom brought Fiona home on Thursday. They had an absolute blast. But mom broke my heart; dad had some blood work done right before Fiona came to stay with them, and when she'd been there a couple of days, the results were available in the patient portal. They showed that my dad's m-spike (the major cancer marker) was elevated, essentially indicating that he was out of remission. So they spent most of the time Fiona was there thinking his cancer had recurred and that he was about to have to start doing chemo again; that's why mom really stayed to go to his appointment. Fortunately, it was a false positive, and he's still in remission, but damn. I hate that they had that shadow over them the whole week.

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My Evil Mother: A Short Story by Margaret Atwood

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


As to be expected, I thoroughly enjoyed this.



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