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Lauren was sick this past Saturday morning and told me to go to VoCamp Austin without her. She e-mailed about 3pm and asked that I take her to after-hours care. This started a chain of events that leads me to this moment, some 3 days later.

• Got home
• To after-hours care
• High T-Cells, abdominal pain, referred to ER
• Seton NW Hospital ER
• CT scan
• HUGE appendix
• Appendix isn’t ruptured, you need surgery now
• Surgery scheduled at 0230 Sunday morning
• 0300 surgery: Appendix was ruptured, longer hospital stay needed
• Beds, nurses, sleeping in chairs, etc. Repeat.
• Release

Lauren is now resting, courtesy of hydrocodone, healing, and eating Jell-O at home. I’ll be AWOL for a while. If you’re able, she’d love to hear from you via e-mail or phone, Facebook or Twitter.

Dear Huffington Post,

I love you. I worked on Arianna’s gubernatorial campaign where she autographed one of her books for me. As the big-names of journalism and television news are becoming ever more farcical, you properly captured the zeitgeist of the Obaman age.

But I implore your copywriter to stop using the term “slam” as a verb. You use it for everything. To wit:

Note that this was today’s front page.