Hello, Dolly!

[ivyblossom]

So, just to recap: I got cancer, I had the surgery and the radiation treatment. It was a little rough for a while there, I learned a lot about being, as my doctor says, "in a compromised body", but I'm doing really well now. And while my first test (a whole body scan) came back showing more remaining tissue than anticipated (they did the test while I was still processing the radiation), my blood test shows that there's none left anymore, which as good as someone actually doing what I'd been wishing someone would do: look me in the face and say, "Ivy, you don't have cancer anymore." I'm doing pretty well these days, and I'm trying to get back to a normal life.

I've been playing around in Second Life a lot, ever since I got my attention span back. I've gotten pretty addicted to building things in there. If you have an SL av, let me know, it would be cool to hang out.

I got married in March; Mr. Blossom is living with me at present, though he's moving to Virginia in a few weeks for a job. (He's an itinerant professor at the moment.) We still need to sort out where we're going to live in the end. Just kind of taking it as it comes for the moment. He's currently in the kitchen making a raspberry cheesecake. He's an excellent chef. I wash the dishes, that's the trade off.

While the vet suspected it, I recently learned that my dearly-beloved 11 year old orange tabby cat (Horatio) does not have FIV. Yay!

I got permanent status (tenure) while I was off recovering. Each year I have this job the harder it is to think about leaving it. Let's hope Mr. Blossom can find a job in the area.

I'm waiting with baited breath to hear more about the Lexicon trial; did I miss something? Any news?

I did some clean up on the flist, and I'm trying to add a whackload of people, but LJ won't let me. Something about trying to add too many people at once. So more during the week, I expect. I'd like to get my friendslist balanced and add back everyone who's added me.

So what's new with you?

Comments

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

It's good to read that Important Life Things are going well for you -- especially since they have not always been easy. Best wishes for married life -- and sympathies for the geographic challenges of academic marriage. (I'm the sometimes trailing, sometimes absent academic in my marriage, and it's not easy. At all.)

I'm among those who have recently friended because I've finally given up on ever really returning to my original journal (conversant, where I've had you on the flist for years). At one time it seemed important to keep the two flists from transparently overlapping... now not so much. (At one time I thought I'd flit back and forth between two journals, keeping fannishness separate from references to real life... now I realize that I'm just not that much of a blogger.)

I'm hoping that someone comments on an update on the Lexicon trial. I've lost track of its progress, too, and am too lazy to poke around for the most recent reports.

*returns to lurking*

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

It's still not letting me add anyone. So annoying, I have no idea how long it will make me wait. Maybe 24 hours? I hope not longer.

And I know what you mean about the overlap problem. I have a blog in my real name that I've had for longer than I've had this one, and since so much real life have flitered into this one, I'm sure it's not too hard to put two and two together anymore. But the tenure thing makes me much more at peace about letting them merge a bit more.

Actually my experiences in fandom have been invaluable to my real life work, and I'm thinking about writing a paper in my real name about some dynamics of fandom. Funny how we relax about that sort of thing after a while.

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

Verdant! <3

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Hi!

*friends*