Felicitations and Apologies

First things first: Happy Birthday, jalara! And congratulations on the new job!

In other news, to those on my flist still hoping to receive some kind of intelligent reply to their comments or e-mails, I'm afraid you'll have to wait another day or two -- sorry! As I'd feared, my throat was so painful last night that I really didn't get much sleep, and today I won't even be making it out to church (I had to ask my mother to call another pianist on my behalf, as my voice is now nonexistent), so I think that today my few functioning brain cells will have to be devoted to keeping an eye out on my (much healthier) offspring.

Thanks for your patience.

Either that or a West End musical...

How very nice of taraljc to spare me the trouble of writing out a complete "Empty Child" review, because she seems to have felt exactly the way I did about the episode. So I'll just point you to hers (warning: spoilers. Naturally).