Back In The Land Of The Living

[Uggghhhh... General, unspecified cold/flu symptoms + painfully specific, outrageous tonsillitis + the long-threatened end to our DSL connection + no hours at the Cute Vic (where I've been known, ahem, to spend some time online...) =...]

[...no updates for a long time.]

[Not that there's that much to say. "Wow, I felt slightly less crappy last Tuesday than I did the previous Thursday, but the crack in the ceiling paint remained unchanged."]

[John seemed to have a great time in Rochester with Nicole, and the other females he went to visit. I'm trying to think of a snappy nickname for Nic, who, by signing my guestbook with her real name, has obviated the need for a pseudonym. Rumor has is she's not the wildest-and-craziest lesbian in Rochester and environs anymore, and while I'm sure it was time for that to change, it feels like an era has passed. Ah, who will pull down her jeans and pee for us on a tree outside Muther's Bar now?]

[Picking John up from the Oakland Airport at 1 a.m. was the last well thing I did for the next week and a half. While I was debilitated, the symptoms seemed vague enough that a trip to the doctor seemed unnecessary until last Thursday, when every swallow felt like two heated, round, spiky torture instruments were revolving in my throat. So, our dear nurse practitioner (all glory to her name) gave me a shot of antibiotic in the glute (first butt shot of that type since appendectomy at 12), and sent me home with enough drugs to satisfy any number of ex- and soon-to-be-ex-roommates.]

[Yeah, we're getting rid of yet another partyboy roommate. Problem: occupy one bedroom of a two-bedroom downtown San Francisco apartment you really can't afford. Find a relatively young, relatively solvent, single roommate who closely matches your level of mostly-domestic, occasionally-crazy living. We haven't been able to do it yet. We thought Bart's level of wild-oat-sowing was appropriate (after all, John and I aren't ready to start a quilting circle just yet), but over the last few months, Lines in the Sand Have Been Crossed, and he'll be gone in a couple of days.]

[Options for the future include Maria Gomez, who'll be returning from London in April. We know what we'd be getting with her, but I don't think any of us is sure what her income situation will be in the short term, and while there were many issues with Bart, money wasn't one of them.]

[We'll be able to discuss some of this with her when we see her at the end of February...IN LONDON!!!! Yes, we've decided to do an encore to, and improvement on, last year's trip. I insisted on not tying up too much time and money on plays and concerts (we are seeing Dawn French in a new one-woman show, though), and I want to be sure to get the history and culture fix I felt I missed last time. If I have to spend a day or two by myself at the British Museum, then that's just fine.]

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