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Blinded by Pure Awesome
May. 31st, 2011 01:36 pmAs y'all know, I couldn't go to WisCON this year, but I got to hear all about it starting last night when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seanmmurphy stopped by to tell me all about the Wyrdsmiths' party and the various panels he was on. Then, this morning, I went almost directly over to naomikritzer's house to "debreif" about everything until sometime after lunch.
It was the next best thing to being there.
Tomorrow I get to hang out with Eleanor and get her take.
I love my friends.
Oh, and my dad continues to improve -- slow and steady. He still has a lot of edema caused, in his case, by earlier problems with plasma protein. The good news is that the swelling is going down on its own, if incrementally. He's going to get to talk to a doctor tomorrow who will probably proscribe medication that will help reduce it, plus continued physical therapy (and general recovery.)
What's been weirdly fun about my father's illness is that we've had this wonderful time to reconnect on a very deep level. We've always been a fairly close family, but, of course, I usually come to visit with Mason and Shawn. A lot of my folk's energy is focused on hanging out with the grandkid, so we really haven't had long, extended periods in which to hang out. I've found out/remembered how cool my dad is/has always been. I realized this time, too, that I really do share his eccelctic interest in nearly everything. My dad talks very disparagingly about times in which he's been too snooty to recognize the value in somethings, but I have to say that I don't see very much of that. He's one of those people who can get excited about almost any subject, which goes a long way to explaining my rather BROAD taste in "intellectual" persuits. (I put that in quotes because of the usual connotation of that word, which is, well, those snooty things, and what I really mean to imply is a general interest in ideas of all kinds regardless of where they originate.)
Plus, I got some very good one-on-one time with my mom, too. We had some really good, deeply personal discussion *and* I got to introduce her to the AWESOME that is "Kung Fu Panda." So, despite all the heartache and worry, it was actually sort of... well, fun... to get to be with my folks this weekend, DESPITE the circumstances.
Hopefully, come July when I head back there, we can have all the same without all the worry!
seanmmurphy stopped by to tell me all about the Wyrdsmiths' party and the various panels he was on. Then, this morning, I went almost directly over to naomikritzer's house to "debreif" about everything until sometime after lunch. It was the next best thing to being there.
Tomorrow I get to hang out with Eleanor and get her take.
I love my friends.
Oh, and my dad continues to improve -- slow and steady. He still has a lot of edema caused, in his case, by earlier problems with plasma protein. The good news is that the swelling is going down on its own, if incrementally. He's going to get to talk to a doctor tomorrow who will probably proscribe medication that will help reduce it, plus continued physical therapy (and general recovery.)
What's been weirdly fun about my father's illness is that we've had this wonderful time to reconnect on a very deep level. We've always been a fairly close family, but, of course, I usually come to visit with Mason and Shawn. A lot of my folk's energy is focused on hanging out with the grandkid, so we really haven't had long, extended periods in which to hang out. I've found out/remembered how cool my dad is/has always been. I realized this time, too, that I really do share his eccelctic interest in nearly everything. My dad talks very disparagingly about times in which he's been too snooty to recognize the value in somethings, but I have to say that I don't see very much of that. He's one of those people who can get excited about almost any subject, which goes a long way to explaining my rather BROAD taste in "intellectual" persuits. (I put that in quotes because of the usual connotation of that word, which is, well, those snooty things, and what I really mean to imply is a general interest in ideas of all kinds regardless of where they originate.)
Plus, I got some very good one-on-one time with my mom, too. We had some really good, deeply personal discussion *and* I got to introduce her to the AWESOME that is "Kung Fu Panda." So, despite all the heartache and worry, it was actually sort of... well, fun... to get to be with my folks this weekend, DESPITE the circumstances.
Hopefully, come July when I head back there, we can have all the same without all the worry!
