once again, i bring it right down to the wire for posting. okay. i'm done self-flaggelating. for now.

it looks like maybe my brother has apendicitis. gross. my mom swung into doctor mode so fast that i didn't even see them leave. anyway, i think the two of them are at the hospital, and my mom won't accept any offers of help or relief or anything. maybe it's a mom thing more than a doctor thing... or maybe it's some weird hybrid of a mom/doctor thing... anyway, it's hard to gague how serious it all is, because she doesn't give me the real skinny. i usually can get more or less accurate information from my dad when she fills him in, but it's not the ideal way to find out what's going on. i'm supposed to go to ikea tomorrow with amalea and brad, and i can't tell if i should blow it off to... i don't know, be around? my sister was saying that it's my turn to get some sort of serious medical condition: dad tore the achilles, mom broke her leg, bernie's appendix is either bursting or burst (burst is a strange verb because it seems to be almost entirely unconjugatable:
present: i burst, you burst, he/she/it bursts, we burst, they burst
past: i burst, you burst, he/she/it burst, we burst, they burst
past participle: had burst
future: i/you/he/she/it/we/they will burst
gerund: bursting
there are more tenses, but they're all the same... anyway) and anna made up some weird thing about how she had the flu three times or something. i veto that as counting as a serious medical condition, and tried to counter with the fact that i sprained my ankle in a foreign country, which i'm pretty sure qualitfies for double points, bringing it up to a serious medical condition, but i don't think she bought it.

all right, well, like i said, i'm getting up early tomorrow. weekends seem to be busy days for me.

hasta mañana.