I MADE IT TO SPRING BREAK 
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Made it through open heart surgery and the first critical week of recovery. I will probably be released from the hospital tomorrow. Thanks goes mostly to a whole slew of medical professionals and Libbey.
I’m walking around without direct assistance, slowly, most of the tubes and wires have been removed, and have no serious issues. I’m over the hump, with much less uncertainty and breathing more easily (literally).
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YAY!!!
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I’m glad surgery and recovery went well, and I hope you keep getting better. All the best things in the world for you, your medical pros, and for Libbey.
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Thank goodness your post was not in the Piercing the Veil thread. Glad that you are still with us and hopefully heart on its way to full health.
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Awarded first grant to my lab. Excited to hire on some students in much better roles than most of the jobs available to them around here.
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Got my phone back from the fixit shop today. It works! Though at first it was reluctant to work off a charger… while the charging port replacement is a success, the battery is starting to fail. But I can coax the phone along by keeping it charged until the replacement battery (plus external battery charger) comes in the mail, so that’s okay. And it only cost me $35 for the repair, which is so much cheaper than buying another phone. Thanks to Planet Mobile of Dearborn, I’m back in business! Yay!
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Wow! A very late congratulations and I hope your health is continuing to improve!
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I don’t know about either victory or rock star, but I finished something.
The something was the final assignment in the UX course I’m taking, worth 50% of the final grade. It’s been a slog for the entire month it’s been assigned because I am still sick – this is the start of Week 5 or 6, I forget which. There were a lot of nights where I really, desperately wanted to work on it – and fell asleep straight after dinner.
So it’s not nearly as good as I wanted it to be, but it is done, and it is submitted, and that means I will get more than zero on it. That’s a start.
(For the record, I got 95% on the mid-term assignment, worth 30% of the final grade and completed just when I was starting to get sick, but planned out when I was still well. Which only added to the stress of the final.)
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Man getting the 99 Bear Kicks is hard.
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Spring semester is officially over! Just submitted the grades!
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The wheels of justice move slowly, but move they do. Finally free of Chad. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Celebration time, y’all - cracking open the victory rum now.
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That is great news!
Um… do you think Chad learned anything from the experience?
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AHAHAHAHA… no.
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Why have you been calling this guy “Chad”? That name has got a very specific bad connotation these days.
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That’s why
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And he’s been living up to it.
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Good job to everyone who called and wrote their Senators about today’s Net Neutrality vote. Long way to go, but we got an unexpected Republican on our side, and that’s good.
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