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It's official....
Of my close girlfriends from high school and college, I'm the last one still single. Good friend called me last night to tell me she'd just gotten engaged. Not that I'm upset about it - just amused more than anything.
Other weird happenings - Woke up this morning and was not hung over. Felt entirely fine. Called to order breakfast at 5:30, and was told room service wasn't taking orders yet (then why does the menu say its available at 5:30???). While waiting for them to call back, could feel migraine starting. Additional aleve, breakfast, and 3 cups of coffee definitely have the pain backing off, but I'm still feeling pretty light sensitive. Oh well, if it had to happen any day, this is the best one given that we don't have a lot of coverage. (also, I'm not as miserable with migraines as most - just generally grouchy, more crowd avoidy than usual, and potential for nauseau w/ the pain)
Also, for my fellow crossover lovers - another rec for you:
The Home Verse by faithburke. Awesome Joan of Arcadia/Supernatural crossover. If you don't happen to be a fan of one, it's pretty well done so you won't be missing anything. \0/
All these awesome crossovers definitely have my frog up and hopping. Of course, that's probably also a side effect of being at a science conference (anytime science looks to be too all consuming the frog tries to get me to procrastinate....Of course, now that my job is officially to be here, it's less likely to be something that I can give in to.
On the less fun news, it sounds like my dad's mother is in the last stages of Alzheimer's. She's been in one of her "won't wake phases" for the last 3 days, and earlier in the week had lost the ability to swallow as well. Also has apparently suffered a heart attack in there somewhere the doc says. Family has elected to withhold feeding tube and IV, though they do have her on oxygen support. I'm going to end up feeling a bit bad as I have a feeling she won't last through the next week and going home will likely be an impossibility prior to the 19th. Definitely an impossibility through the end of this conference given that we're stretched w/ covering oral presentations on monday all ready. Of course, it's not like I'm super close to her (she's always been someone that it's hard to be close too), but more of a bad feeling to not be their to support my dad and aunt through it. Fortunately my mom is mostly in a good place right now so my dad isn't too torn between which place he can be right now, but still. Either way, I still hope that my grandma passes soon before my aunt and dad start to have second thoughts about the feeding tube/iv (a friend of mine had to watch her dad expire very slowly w/ parkinson's post major stroke. but i think they used iv support for a while so the process took a lot longer.
Other weird happenings - Woke up this morning and was not hung over. Felt entirely fine. Called to order breakfast at 5:30, and was told room service wasn't taking orders yet (then why does the menu say its available at 5:30???). While waiting for them to call back, could feel migraine starting. Additional aleve, breakfast, and 3 cups of coffee definitely have the pain backing off, but I'm still feeling pretty light sensitive. Oh well, if it had to happen any day, this is the best one given that we don't have a lot of coverage. (also, I'm not as miserable with migraines as most - just generally grouchy, more crowd avoidy than usual, and potential for nauseau w/ the pain)
Also, for my fellow crossover lovers - another rec for you:
The Home Verse by faithburke. Awesome Joan of Arcadia/Supernatural crossover. If you don't happen to be a fan of one, it's pretty well done so you won't be missing anything. \0/
All these awesome crossovers definitely have my frog up and hopping. Of course, that's probably also a side effect of being at a science conference (anytime science looks to be too all consuming the frog tries to get me to procrastinate....Of course, now that my job is officially to be here, it's less likely to be something that I can give in to.
On the less fun news, it sounds like my dad's mother is in the last stages of Alzheimer's. She's been in one of her "won't wake phases" for the last 3 days, and earlier in the week had lost the ability to swallow as well. Also has apparently suffered a heart attack in there somewhere the doc says. Family has elected to withhold feeding tube and IV, though they do have her on oxygen support. I'm going to end up feeling a bit bad as I have a feeling she won't last through the next week and going home will likely be an impossibility prior to the 19th. Definitely an impossibility through the end of this conference given that we're stretched w/ covering oral presentations on monday all ready. Of course, it's not like I'm super close to her (she's always been someone that it's hard to be close too), but more of a bad feeling to not be their to support my dad and aunt through it. Fortunately my mom is mostly in a good place right now so my dad isn't too torn between which place he can be right now, but still. Either way, I still hope that my grandma passes soon before my aunt and dad start to have second thoughts about the feeding tube/iv (a friend of mine had to watch her dad expire very slowly w/ parkinson's post major stroke. but i think they used iv support for a while so the process took a lot longer.