August: The Most Interesting Month

Hello, cats and kitties!

I returned to work on July 27th and immediately plunged into the world of beginning my year as faculty association president at Kirkwood (round 2--I did this 2002-2003, a lifetime ago) and then began to prepare to be gone over the two Fall Kick-Off days. You would be surprised at how much paperwork it takes to create a virtual me. Well, I did all that and as of today have completed my World Con prep for panels as well. So, that's all as it should be, and I'm looking forward to connecting with people and being on panels at World Con. I'll post my schedule a little later in the week.

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Meanwhile, in the rest of my life, there has been a confluence of strangeness all hitting at the same time. Some of it was well-meant strangeness, but when you have a lot planned, sometimes, the early isn't ideal.

The above work preparation I knew about. Also, we knew Bryon's mom was going to get a tumor removed from her bladder. It is a slow growing cancer, and after the lab results, they're going to give her one more chemo treatment to reduce the chances of it coming back. She's 90, so we're thinking that will be the end of it for her and the cancer will trouble her no more. It's a good diagnosis.

What I didn't expect? People doing things faster than I expected, which is usually good. Like the geothermal guys starting outside about two days after we gave them the green light to transform our 160-year-old house into Environmentally Friendly Manor. Our backyard has had four giant wells drilled into it, and a couple of giant mole men furrows leading to our house. Who knew our yard was full of limestone chunks my husband took it upon himself to carry out of our yard so we could get it to become a yard again? Also, who knew, like when a grave settles, you have to leave giant channels of earth on top of the ground, letting them naturally settle until you can take the backyard to "rough" grade again?

Yes, I know that now. There were also indoor hijinx.

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