About Dad: Thanks. We're keeping our fingers crossed, but we're hopeful.

About the sick: I think I've progressed to 'mostly living'. Mostly vertical, in any case. My doctor has given up on me, I think. She just sort of sighed and said, "For what it's worth, sleep, you fool." And then I realized that school is over, and I actually can. That was a good moment. *g*

About congratulation and such: Thank you, again. Also, all discussions of employment shall henceforth be held in rude mutterings. They are scary, and I am studiously ignoring the need for income. *g*