Sometimes the best I can do is a list

As I was enjoying the quiet of the morning and thinking about blogging my mind jumped from one thing to another and then back again.  I am having trouble concentrating well enough to write but I need to dump some things from my head so I can move on.  Since a cogent post full of insight with a taste of self effacing humor is well beyond me right now I am going to revert to that old blogger trick of a list.

Linden Lab is offering discounts to a set of hand picked educational organizations.  You remember them? The very groups LL took discounts away from a while back are now being courted back to Second Life with the promise of a price benefit.  This move is being touted by the faithful as a "step in the right direction." I agree!  That is if the right direction is poorly thought out strategy, executed in secret and communicated via a leak to New World Notes instead of an actual policy statement by the Lab. Way to go! (idiots)

There is a blogger meme where people are confessing 7 things others don't know about them.  I will give it a shot.  A list within a list!  How meta.
1) I worry every day the nodes in my neck are bigger.  Living with cancer is a bitch.
2) My 16 year old daughter is beautiful and brilliant. She has a lovely singing voice.
3) My 14 year old son is a genius (no really he is -- the school people told me so, I am not just bragging.) His eyes are the color of the Caribbean and right now he aspires to be a pro League of Legends player.
4) I am still looking for work in SL that makes me excited again. I have had several offers I have turned down or been inattentive to due to health concerns and/or apathy.  I am sorry. Its me not you.
5) Since I have been over sharing here since 2007 there is nothing you don't already know.
6) I became a vegetarian in September.  Looking at meat grosses me out now.
7) I routinely write blog posts I don't publish because I so often make people upset without meaning to do so.

Taaa Daa.  (yawn)

Someone I have grown to call a friend is in the middle of medical stuff that is expected to lead to a cancer diagnosis.  I am happy to be able to help if I can because I have been down this road.  I am worried right along with my friend. This shit is hard and I hate it.

I miss my SL partner. That is a long story but it is over and done and she is no longer in world.  At least not when I am.  It is okay. Life goes on.

My husband is in England visiting his father this week. My hat is off to single parents. This week I woke my children up late for school twice. I also forgot I had to pick up my son from Technology club and I was half an hour late.  The worst mom in the world award goes to me.  You may judge me but it won't be any harder than I judge myself for my failings. Have at it.

I love my job.  I work with brilliant scientists and my boss is genuinely a wonderful person who takes time to mentor and teach. She is not afraid to be her genuine self with me and it is a privilege to work with her.  Our organization is going through some big changes and I worry that she will retire because honestly dealing with some of the executives is a challenge. If she leaves I will lose the best mentor I have had in my career.  *worry, worry.  fret, fret*

I am building out my land again. This time I am layering color and texture and thinking of it like painting.  I have no idea what I am doing but it is fun and so far I think it looks pretty.  Crap put a giant bird on my tree house and I think it is my favorite part of the build.  I need to take a bunch of pictures and share them. I will do that when I lay down the rest of the landscaping.

Please feel free to stop by if you like.  I have 120 minute auto return so photographers can rez a pose stand or props or whatever.  I love visitors so search your map for Harbour and TP over. I am on the East and Lalo Telling's land on the west. We have a small memorial out for him so if you want remember our dear friend for a moment or two that would be wonderful.