Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Suicide and boob jobs

So, we're having sibling issues. Or rather, our siblings are having issues that effect us all.

In the past two weeks:

Greg's brother has been despairing; his older sister has decided to cut off all relations with their grandmother and shares her obsessive rage with Greg several times a day; his younger sister was just released after two weeks in the hospital for being suicidal.

My brother has been doin' the 'roids for his bulging disc and my sister has been diagnosed with a new form of cancer. Not that it's new, just new to her. Breast this time--potentially even caused by the radiation that treated the Hodgkins Disease when we were in high school--generally, this is a good thing because it's local, not systemic. The problem is, hers has started to run, and the favorite destination of this variety is the lymph nodes. Non-Hodgkins lymphoma wouldn't be nearly as fun and easy as a mastectomy--or, as I refer to it, her upcoming boob job.

Monday, April 02, 2007

Differences?

So, post show on Saturday, there was a cast party. The cast got wildly drunk, I just had enough to anesthetize my strep throat. It was generally a good time, I got home at 3:30, Greg got home at 6.

The absolute highlight for me: The GW as she's been known in the past, came up to me, threw her arms around my next and said "I know we've had our differences in the past...but I want to thank you for all your help and support...you're a wonderful person..." It was lengthy and heartfelt and really, rather sweet, all told.

Sweet, but I was very amused. As far as I know, the only real problem we have is she spent more than a year trying to steal my live-in boyfriend just after my father died. Does that really count as a difference? I'm thinking it's more like a hanging offense.

Thank you, Mr. Loper...

It's been a crazy couple of weeks, filled with drama--a play run, a friend blowing town due to horrific circumstances, oh, and there's been lots of work to do at the same time...

And as far as work goes, Thursday took the cake. We had a committee meeting for the community economic development strategy plan we're preparing. We lucked out and had a quorum so the goals and strategies could be approved. We had a speaker to give the committee information about the workforce training needs in the region. We also had a subconsultant who (conspicuously absent up to this point) decided to make his presence known.

Every once in a while, he would make some backhanded complement to our work, annoying, but that's to be expected from an academic sub. Once the Chair of the Committee left and the presenter started, he really became obnoxious--he challenged every bit of data she presented for absolutely no reason.

The entire time, I just kept thinking..."somebody really needs to punch this guy in the neck."