and here we were, thinking we were going to be short on drama this week.

the owl is ailing. this came to my attention somewhere in the 9 o'clock hour last night, with a call from the biscuit asking me if i'd heard from her, as he'd received a garbled message intimating that she was sitting in an emergency room somewhere.

and on the strength of that piece of information did we activate the tribe emergency network. biscuit described the chain of events well, so i'm not going to attempt to embellish upon it. i lament that i was not at the hospital myself, nor had the opportunity to meet her parents...but my job in all this was to work dispatch, which basically meant i needed to stay near a computer and out of tunnels with no reception. i shall remedy my absence this afternoon, methinks.

suffice it to say, shall we all send some good thoughts to the little owl, who is probably right this very second completely doped up on painkillers and feeling hunky dory. but good thoughts, indeed, for a speedy and painless recovery.