I just ordered the first four issues of the Buffy, Season 8 comic books. Yeah, that's right. I'm doing a little happy dance in my desk chair...

I've actually never *read*...let alone *bought* a comic book before. Can Joss Whedon's brilliance work it on the page? I'm not sure, but my fingers are crossed. I'm glad to know that he, too, misses Buffy...

And how the hell did I not find out about these until this week? Why has nobody told me about this before now? I'm very disappointed in my friends/family for not keeping abreast of this sort of information for me while I'm in school... I must take more time away from my studies to geek out since nobody has been geeking out on my behalf. The nerve!

In other news, my dear Gran is in the hospital under mysterious medical circumstances. No news as to what's up yet. I'm happy she's at the Cleveland Clinic, though. That's one thing our town can *really* brag about. I must say, however, that those jerks should really get rid of all 8,000 flat panel televisions that they have hanging a foot away from one another in the skyways... What a waste! I'll have to try and take some pictures of these things, because seriously, words don't do it justice. Charge less for medical services, assholes. Not-for-profit my ass. Go pay some property taxes.

It's strange, though, how we all saw this coming. My grandmother has been very nostalgic lately, which sort of had me worried. She gave me a picture that she took in Henley when she was a Land Girl of the huntsmen taking the hounds out for a walk. There must be...forty fox hounds in this photograph. She showed me some other photos I've never seen...her name soaped on a military transport, her in her Land Girl outfit riding her favorite horse, Rupert, and the farmhouse where she lived... The farmhouse looked exactly the same when we visited it just a few years ago, the first and only time she went back to England after the war.

Anyway...I'm hoping that everything's fine. I'm not ready to be without her, yet. Don't think I'll ever be ready for that one...