Hello, Grand Central Station

It's not even 10 o'clock and I've already had 4 phone calls today. Damnit, I need to finish my lesson plans!

How to make your body hate you

Last Friday: spend time around cats without taking antihistamines; go for shisha
Last Saturday: do lots of bardic; sleep poorly
Monday: spend time around cats (it was for a good purpose); sleep poorly
Yesterday: spend time around cats (it was for a good purpose)
Today: spend time in a hospital (it's for a good purpose)
Tomorrow: spend time around cats

... Yeah. Stupid allergies and athsma.

An update on Marc

Some of you may know that Marc has been having knee problems lately. This is the result of an injury he had 5-6 years ago. Long story short, his knee locked up about a week and a half ago, and he wasn't able to straighten it. He had an appointment with an orthopedist yesterday who looked at his x-rays and said, "there's a bone chip lodged in your knee and I want to operate on it."

Today was the operation. They took out a bone chip (covered in cartiledge) about 1.7 cm wide -- I've seen it; the thing's huge! (Marc got to keep it -- I think he wants to make a necklace out of it.)

He's doing fine and amazingly mobile on crutches. Apparently it's about 2 weeks to partial mobility / recovery, and another 2-4 weeks for full mobility / recovery. We're just both happy that the damned thing's out and he can extend his leg again.

And now, to bed.