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rivkaSorry to go so long without updates, but somewhere in there I got too tired to post even when we did go to the public library to use the computer terminals.
We're home now, after a nightmarish return trip that wound up taking well over 12 hours - we left for the airport at 7:30am central time, and walked in our front door at 10pm eastern time. We spent much of the intervening time in a holding pattern over Newark, being diverted from Newark to Syracuse, returning to Newark after refueling, and being passed from one unhelpful airline employee to another in the Newark airport, trying to rebook our missed connection. I became extremely tired of New Jersey. But I'm trying to remind myself that we had flawless transportation when it counted, on the way there - including a flight that landed early, allowing us to see Papa before he went into surgery. So there's really no grounds for complaint.
Papa came home from the hospital late Tuesday evening. He's doing remarkably well for someone whose heart was exposed and meddled with only a week ago - moving around the house, dressing and showering, eating reasonably well, carrying on conversations. The fever he developed towards the end of his hospital stay seems to have been a respiratory infection - they called in a prescription for antibiotics the day after he came home, and he's been coughing a lot. But mostly he seems to be recovering with incredible swiftness.
I'm so exhausted from this trip. I got a little less than nine hours of sleep - I woke up around eight worrying about money, and forced myself to get out of bed and start doing something so that the worry wouldn't spiral into panic. (Did you know that LJ won't let you go 1000 posts back in your friends view? So I might've missed something important that you said. I'm sorry.)
There are all kinds of things I should be doing - the house needs cleaning pretty badly, especially the kitchen; I need to unpack; I need to go to the office and get some work done because I didn't do any of it in Memphis (and honestly, I don't know why I thought I would). But I feel tired and sluggish and whiny, and distinctly amotivational. Gah.
If I made a long post filled with all the petty shit Michael's stepmother does that irritates me, that would be beneath me - right?
We're home now, after a nightmarish return trip that wound up taking well over 12 hours - we left for the airport at 7:30am central time, and walked in our front door at 10pm eastern time. We spent much of the intervening time in a holding pattern over Newark, being diverted from Newark to Syracuse, returning to Newark after refueling, and being passed from one unhelpful airline employee to another in the Newark airport, trying to rebook our missed connection. I became extremely tired of New Jersey. But I'm trying to remind myself that we had flawless transportation when it counted, on the way there - including a flight that landed early, allowing us to see Papa before he went into surgery. So there's really no grounds for complaint.
Papa came home from the hospital late Tuesday evening. He's doing remarkably well for someone whose heart was exposed and meddled with only a week ago - moving around the house, dressing and showering, eating reasonably well, carrying on conversations. The fever he developed towards the end of his hospital stay seems to have been a respiratory infection - they called in a prescription for antibiotics the day after he came home, and he's been coughing a lot. But mostly he seems to be recovering with incredible swiftness.
I'm so exhausted from this trip. I got a little less than nine hours of sleep - I woke up around eight worrying about money, and forced myself to get out of bed and start doing something so that the worry wouldn't spiral into panic. (Did you know that LJ won't let you go 1000 posts back in your friends view? So I might've missed something important that you said. I'm sorry.)
There are all kinds of things I should be doing - the house needs cleaning pretty badly, especially the kitchen; I need to unpack; I need to go to the office and get some work done because I didn't do any of it in Memphis (and honestly, I don't know why I thought I would). But I feel tired and sluggish and whiny, and distinctly amotivational. Gah.
If I made a long post filled with all the petty shit Michael's stepmother does that irritates me, that would be beneath me - right?
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Date: 2003-11-29 07:58 am (UTC)Not if you protected it. :-p
Glad you're back.
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Date: 2003-11-29 07:59 am (UTC)I'm *very* glad to hear that Misha's father is home and healing.
Of *course* you feel tired and sluggish and whiny and amotivational! You've been under too much stress, with (probably) not enough sleep, and now the stress has lifted, and the adrenaline is wearing off, and you've gone all flop. Perfectly reasonable. I recommend rest and recovery time (and doing something that is fun but not too wearing, if possible).
And the long post would be beneath you only if you left it public. Ranting at friends is acceptable, IMO.
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Date: 2003-11-29 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 09:30 am (UTC)I'm glad that Michael's dad is much better! And after a week like that, and the trip home, I think you're entitled to a day to recover...
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Date: 2003-11-29 09:48 am (UTC)I hope that's an "expressing sympathy" sorry rather than an "apology" sorry, because certainly as the blessed arranger of the tickets you carry no blame at all. We got there, we got home - thanks to you.
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Date: 2003-11-29 10:53 am (UTC)FYI - flying into Newark these days seems to go hand in hand with **** like that. I had a very similar experience coming back from Denver.And mom did recently too. It's becoming the airport to avoid.
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Date: 2003-11-29 12:18 pm (UTC)Screw housework - get rest. You need some recuperative time yourself.
And if it would help you get it out of your system, make whatever kind of post you like, but feel free to filter the hell out of it.
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Date: 2003-11-29 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 03:14 pm (UTC)I also figured out Baltimore people we both know - Heather and Blake, who go to the UU church downtown. She mentioned running into you, while you were passing out Dean literature, and I knew exqactly who she was talking about!
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Date: 2003-11-29 03:34 pm (UTC)Thanks. (And it's my father-in-law.)
I also figured out Baltimore people we both know - Heather and Blake, who go to the UU church downtown.
Hee! Yes, I go to church with Heather and Blake. It's a small world.
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Date: 2003-12-03 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-29 08:46 pm (UTC)good job not whacking michael's stepmother with a stick!
good job being there for michael and for papa!
good job on not gnawing on airport personnel!
sleep some, okay?
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Date: 2003-11-30 02:59 am (UTC)As for ranting - go for it...oh wait, looking at friends view, you already did. Well....uuuh...yeah - bedtime.
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Date: 2003-11-30 04:25 am (UTC)Actually, it will. You just have to enter the numbers in manually, into the URL window.
Not that this is a hint, mind.
-J
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Date: 2003-11-30 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
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