Monthly Archives: July 2007

Good News

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My Carleton classmate NA has been undergoing treatment for cancer over the last few months. At her latest exam the doctor (A cancer specialist) said:

….he sees “NOTHING”! No tumor, no lymph node involvement, no new bogies!

He’s a surgeon so you just know he wants to slice and dice … but he’s going to see me again in six weeks (the radiation’s still at work for a few more weeks) and then six weeks after that. Somewhere in there he may do a biopsy, depending on what I’m doing with my blood thinners. He says there’s no reason to talk about surgery for months, in any case, and possibly never!
….We’re not out of the woods yet, but the path we appear to be on is a pretty one inhabited by lots of lovely living things. Including ME! <grin>

Bhí scéal agam (I had a story)

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Every Monday night in Irish class we are all supposed to tell a scéal–a story about something that had happened in our lives. The idea is provide to practise composing and speaking Irish. The truth value of the scéal is not particularly important–It can be completely made up. This is personally difficult, since mistakes are inevitable and I do not deal well with making mistakes in public. But it is obviously important, so I go ahead.

In the scéal I try to talk about something that really happened, simply because I want to relate Irish to the rest of my life. Last night I said a little bit about Convergence. This may have been too ambitious, since I had to look up some specialized vocabulary. However, the work was fun. Continue reading →

Another SF Convention, with a difference for us

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mia_mcdavid and I are going to Convergence this weekend. Mia is already there. I will be joining her after work. James is staying home. Mia reminded me last night that it has been a long time since we went to a con without children. Our last convention before James was born was Windycon XIII, in November 1986. It was at the Hyatt Regency Woodfield, a very nice hotel in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. The world has changed a lot since then, and so have we, but we are still fans.