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Squeaks--Congratulations!!!!!  That's wonderful news!

Dan, I shall miss you as well.  I think I need to send you my new
email addy.....

Ooooo, Sandman con........ooooooo.......and I can *drive* there!

This is what being a responsible adult gets you: 

I decided that as much as I would love to see Neil (he skipped
Humanities Fest this year, and we're going through withdrawal), I was
not going to drive to Minneapolis for the reading on the 15th, because
I didn't want to have to drive 6 hours back to Chicago and go back to
work the next morning all tired, and I shouldn't spend the money, and
everybody has boyfriends, so no one would want to go with me, because I
would want to leave the day before, etc....

The 16th was President's Day.  School was out.  Debbers would have
taken the day off.  Her boyfriend probably would have come with us.

I refuse to be responsible and boring anymore, dammit! 

Neil--so, The Libertine, huh?  Depp seems like a good choice to keep
him audience-friendly.  Heard any gossip about the script?

Mary (reading McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury)
  

    
Mary -- See how it never hurts to ask?

I almost could have gone (if I wanted to charge it), since I had the
16th off and was on vacation the whole week before anyway... but most
of the point of my vacation was to take time off and not have to *go*
anywhere.

And.  It.  Was.  TERRIFIC.  <g>
  

    
Mary - being a responsible adult is all noble and stuff, but it's much
more fun if you abandon those ideals every now and again. If I stuck
to my budget all the time, I wouldn't have done some very fun things
with very interesting and fun people... and I'm really pushing the
'responsibility sucks' envelope just now because I lost a bid on art
that I need because I was being 'responsible'... wouldn't suck so hard
core, but I know who outbid me, and I could have won pretty easily...
grrrr!

Ooh, time off not going anywhere is a good thing sometimes... 

Time off not going anywhere and not in need of working on several
sewing projects with deadlines of 'last November' is even better. 

heheh,
squeaks
who will now be late for work
  

    
> who will now be late for work

Way to give the "responsible adult" thing a rest!  Woo-hoo!
...

Holy crow, is it Pancake Tuesday again already?
  

    
The attorneys in our office get King Cakes delivered to them as gifts
from people we work with. We are on the 5th such cake - the guys put
them out for the office to eat.  Between that and the birthday pies
yesterday, I'm all sugared out.
  

    
Fax some over here!

Birthday pies?  Cool.
  

    
*sigh*

And I was just missing King Cakes, too.  One of the perks in the
insanity that was my last job was King Cakes FedExed every year from a
grateful patient.  Even though it was starting to look a little rigged
when the same woman on staff found the baby three years in a row...

Michelle: what art?
  

    
what's King Cakes, precious?

Michelle, I am rolling over with joy for you two.  YAY!!!  Marriage
rocks. 

I've spent yesterday in the hospital.  Having some weird problem with
my brain.  Vertigo.  It sucks.  Am feeling better today but am beyond
exhausted.  Still, I managed to check the Well so I must be improving. 


Dan, I really will miss your posts.
  

    
Oh, poor Adriana!  Do they know what's causing it yet?

Hope you get a good night's sleep.  ((hugs))
  

    
Neil -- It's such a relief to hear that the McFarlane thing is finally
over!  Let me be the first (here, at least) to congratulate you.  I'm
so glad you can move on now.


Try not to gloat *too* much.  <eg>
  

    
Adriana
Beams and crossed fingers and all that. Hope it turns out to be
nothing too serious and easily remedied.

My doctor's appointment today was ok. He showed me on the tests how
there was absolutely nothing to support a diagnosis of Lupus so he's
going to phase out the Methotrexate and see me in a month. Course the
bad thing about finding out I don't have Lupus and that I might, but
he's not sure yet, have Fibromyalgia is that at this moment all those
wierd pains and discomforts I suffer from once more have no reason to
exist. I can't just go home and say. "Hm. OK. I have this. This is the
treatment." and go back to the doctor in 6 months and in the meantime
forget about it. But I shall adjust. The F. topic here in the Well has
helped me a whole lot better than the doctor has. 

So, that's all with me.
  

    
Hang in there, Holley....
  

    
Adriana:
> what's King Cakes, precious?

Sweet, cinnamony, doughy goodness with Mardi gras-colored icing and a
baby baked in.

A more helpful response is here:
http://www.holidays.net/mardigras/cake.htm

And I'm *so* sorry about the Vertigo.  I hope it's just the short-term
version.  That's what happened to me a few years ago, when I woke up
the day before my marathon and couldn't move my head without being
violently ill, and then spent the day in the ER with a doctor who told
me I couldn't run the race I'd spent the past year training for.  It
was hideous.  But mine was short-term.  I'd hit my head really hard a
few days earlier, and my inner ear had slowly filled up with fluid.  I
was much better within a few days, and completely fine in about two
weeks.  Did they give you medication for it?  I'm so glad that you're
better.  Many hugs.

Dodge:  Fibromyalgia is no fun, itself.  But I hope that a more
correct diagnosis at least enables them to treat your symptoms more
effectively.

And I've currently got some cryptogenic thing that comes from starting
with a me and applying injudicious doses of the type of thing that
Mike Ford does with words.  I'm... restless.  Like a rolling
stormfront.  I love this feeling.  I hate this feeling.  I always
expect it to carry me somewhere, but it never does.  And I always
wonder if that's my fault.

I never say things like that here.  But I think I just did.
  

    
Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!

That wretched case is over!  Congratulations, Neil.  Looking forward
to new Miracleman stories!

Mary (*still* reading McSweeney's because she has too bloody much to
do!  Don't these people know they're supposed to leave me alone and let
me knit and read and watch movies?  And yes, the knitting is Holly's
fault)
  

    
I'm also excited to hear that the TV hosting may happen after all!

Hmm, Neil just promised his last Legal Post for a long time.









I can't wait to see his Illegal Posts.
  

    
I'll pop my head up now, so you can't call me a lurker.

(miss-mousey), we demand convention details.  Okay, I realize you've
been distracted, but what's the deal?
--

I took the time to read the legal brief - so I know the Lone Ranger's
real name, and a brief history of Spawn.  

On Neil's LiveJournal feed a poster pointed out that some court briefs
are dull, and others are written by Judge Samuel Kent:
http://www.clr.org/Bradshaw-Unity.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/skent1.html 
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/obiwan4.html 
  

    
Pamela,
Yeah. I get that. Wrote a poem about it once. Like wanting to do
SOMEthing but now knowing what. Wanting to just pick up and abandon all
THINGS and go somewhere ELSE and do something ELSE. Anything. A new
job. A new city. A new LIFE. Shake the bars. Pace the floor. BE someONE
else. Chase all the little thoughts and all the abandoned desires and
check out all the abandoned little roads you passed by and always
wondered about. 
  

    
Holley: Thank you for getting it.

I had another thought, today, on the opposite end of the spectrum.  Do
you know that place *right* before sleep, where your thoughts--all
those busy, busy thoughts--thin out and unravel, pulling into wispy
strands and drifting gently apart, like a horsetail cloud in high
winds, and then... then you're passing right through them, straight up
into infinite blue?

I love that place.  I got no beef with that place.

I can't quite figure out if one has to do with the other, or not.
  

    
P.S. Notshakespeare: Those are hysterical!

"But at the end of the day, even if you put a calico dress on it and
call it Florence, a pig is still a pig."

"Alas, this court's kingdom for a commercial airport!"

There's law.  And then there's Texas law.
  

    
You know, miss tinymonster, when I posted that I was going to be late
for work, it didn't even dawn on me that I was just supporting my whole
'responsibility bites' thing... happy coincidence? ;P

Pam - Art from Sandman... the one that has the panel I wear 24/7 on my
leg as it's tattooed there... looks like Shield bought it... grrr.
Okay, I'm better now (note, b*e*tter, not b*i*tter)

Adriana - <<hugs>> hope the vertigo goes away soon! Having a pretty
normal mild vertigo from anything more than 10 feet above or below, I
can tell you that sucks (my depth perception's a little wonky). But you
already know that, so just get better. :)

Dodge - I'm with Pam. I certainly hope that a proper diagnosis will
enable a more productive recovery! 

Um, convention stuff eh? Well, the only facts about it are this:
Minneapolis, mid-November, Sandman related, called Fiddlers Green, and
nothing else has been decided. That was just the sort of answer you
were looking for, wasn't it? :P Promise I'll keep you lot informed...
or someone else will.

Legal briefs indeed! Ha! Great links! (and yay to Neil for an end to
legal silliness!)

Pam - There's an in between stage that falls somewhere in the middle
of thinking about way too many things and finally falling into deep
comatose sleep from exhaustion? Dude! I've been missing out! How does
one attain this Nirvana?

Neil - If you wanted me to update my webpage, there are more civil
ways to do it than to post a link in your journal. ;) Actually, I
appreciated the kick to do it. I've been meaning to for about 5 months
and - ooh! something shiny! =) <squee!>

-squeaks, who will close this evening by saying that one of the
weirdest and coolest ways to find out you're a mention in the blog has
got to be when one of your friends from the newsgroup calls you up with
the following conversation:

A: "Yeah, I was reading Neil's journal and wanted to congratulate you.
That's so awesome!" 

me: "Well, we've been talking about doing this whole convention thing
for a little bit and..."

A: "Convention? Oh, I thought that you'd have something to do with
that. But no, I was talking about your engagement. Cool!"

me: "You found out about my engagement from reading Neil's journal?"
  

    
Yeah. You get engaged and the WORLD knows it. At least the world
according to NG and fans. Talk about announcing an engagement! 

Pam, Yes, I do know that moment. It's kind of a nice place. But it
only comes if your minds not racing when you are trying to go to sleep.
Then you just drop from EEEEEE to deep blackness it seems. I gotta
look up that scene from Sandman she's talking about now. Oh, gee. Gotta
go look at my books. What a shame.
  

    
Whooo wooo. Neil climbing out of a coffin may happen this year. Now
THAT's news I, as a NG fan, can get behind. 
  

    
I'd be curious to see your logs, Squeaks... see what kind of load jump
your server took. I've always imagined that getting a link from his
blog would be like opening up a mom and pop shop and finding all the
customers from Macys flooding in through your door.

Mary, yes! Send me your new email addy! How else can I spam you with
information on performances you can't come to?

Holley - many hopes and thoughts of a good, accurate diagnosis...and
the means to make everything feel better! ... liberal amounts of
Ecstacy not necessarily part of the gameplan, however. Bad for the
kidneys, that stuff.

Adriana - Augh! Make your brain be good!

Signed up with the gym, was reminded what a freaking con game they're
running down there (No, I will not pay you a $500 signup fee. What the
hell is wrong with you people? I don't need every damn bell and whistle
possible.). Needless to say I got my self discounted as low as they
claimed they could go and went for the first time today to spend some
time on the cardio machines and did a teeny bit of weight work. I was
careful not to overdo it on the first day, as I'm prone to shit like
that.

*watching the lurking shadows draw ever closer*
-tick -tick -tick -tick
Spooooooooooooooon
  

    
I've never paid to go to a gym.

But everything that I've heard seems to say that $250 for 20 fencing
classes is a good deal.
  

    
Am on my way to neurologist to make my brain be good.  Thanks for the
good thoughts!