It's been a strange couple of weeks, and I feel off my game. Other people seem to have a different opinion, but I should be allowed to make my own call on this. At work I feel as if I'm missing limbs. This is not just the absence of toxicfur. Our admin also left, taking a higher level job and a great deal of institutional memory with her. I have a temp in place, but it isn't the same as someone who can nearly read your mind.

I also have all the stuff coming up in my head in response to what toxicfur is going through. This was not the kind of thing I'd write about on K5, but I've been through almost exactly this. I had an email friend who served witness as we all are doing for tf, and RL people who gave real hugs, and as we all know, K5 would not be the place to talk about what it is like to nurse a parent through the end of their life.

I just want to say this: What you are doing for her you are also doing, outside the linear space-time continuum, for me. Thank you.

10:40 now in Boston