I changed my username at LibraryThing from saralaughs to greenery. It didn't occur to me at the time I did so that there wouldn't be a way to find me, but apparently you'll get an error message if you go looking for saralaughs. Thanks to Stephanie for the headsup on that one.

Trying to write, sitting here in the family room with the Mathematician on the couch in an opiate haze. He had pretty much weaned himself off the hard core painkillers, but today he couldn't manage on ipuprofen alone. Last night Thor and Penny brought him Indian food, which he loves, and spend a few hours talking, which cheered us all up a lot. Friends. You just can't do without 'em.

Still waiting to hear from the surgeon's office about the surgery date.

On another front, the Girlchild is leaving a week from Friday to spend a month in Manhattan on an internship. She'll be staying with our beloved and infamous cousin Tom Vincent in Hoboken, and she is ecstatic. We are nervous but believe the following:

1. It will be an excellent learning experience for her. By which we mean primarily it will be great for her to have to get up and go to work every morning, stay at work all day, and come home in the evening tired.

2. It will be an excellent thing for us that we're not the ones getting her up every morning.

3. The whole experience will be a positive one for her and she'll come home (we hope) with a new understanding of what it means to work for a living.

4. She'll have a lot of fun hanging out with Tom and Jen when she's not working. Hopefully she'll have little opportunity to worry about the Mathematician and his surgery.

5. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Back to work.

PS. The poll is working, as far as I can tell. I'll let it run until the end of the week.