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Hmmm.  A challenge of English Composition, I'd call it.

It sounds like AJCIII is the topic, but it also sounds like you're beginning a chapter or scene, which means that you don''t have to make AJCIII the topic all at once.  You can develop the relationships and people as settings before settling on AJCIII.

Or

That last paragraph reads a little like Agatha Christie, I think.

Hope This Helps.

These word 'belong' to different communities, but they have been borrowed.  Moreover, their meanings differ.  'cuss' as a verb does not have the same meaning as the noun in "He's a sour old cuss."

To many people, 'dumb' is a near synonym for 'not like me'.  Chesterton somewhere has Father Brown say, "When a scientist talks about a type, he means his neighbor, and usually his poorer neighbor."

I remember a phone conversation with an HP support representative: "It reports Error number ((whatever)).  Error number ((whatever)) is listed as a Floating Point Exception.  Well, there ain't no floating point in there!"  It got a laugh from the other side, but it also drove the point home.

Yes, our speech tells people things about us, but if that's its purpose, we're misusing it.  We're putting ourselves ahead of the message we bring.  I don't think that says anything good about the character of the speaker.  But then, maybe I don't know much about the subject.

I'm thinking more of the rogue e coli.

WikiP says that MRSA can be vulnerable to doxycyline.

I expect and intend to pay double for double washing.

I'm home.  (I've been home for over an hour now, but I had to start to unpack, and to take the first doxycycline, and to take some phone calls.

Tomorrow I have to get some stuff early to the laundry and cleaners.  The laundry will have instructions to wash hot with double detergent--and what can't be washed hot will be washed twice.  Now I need to rest and do some very minimal cleaning.  I also need to make follow-up appointments.

I'm the New York variety of hillbilly and I grew up with 'snuck'.

To answer some questions:

No, I'm not home yet.  Tuesday, for sure.  (Really.)  I should have been discharged today, but the various doctors and paperwork didn't mesh to get me out at a reasonable hour.

Yes, it was serious.  It started with what was probably the nasty strain of e coli in the digestive tract, which allowed an opportunistic staphlococcus aureous (correct my spelling, Amy) deep tissue infection in my right leg.  The fallout from the e coli made it hard for me to get to the hospital, and I got there just as the staph infection was increasing explosively.

Of course, they echo'd the leg to be sure it wasn't a blockage.  The sonagram looked good until a vascular surgeon took a look.  He found that the flow rates were not changing with my breathing, a sign of partial venous blockage.  He went in through right interior jugular with an ultrasound probe and found May-Thurner's syndrome, the result of one of the femoral arteries squeezing down the left iliac vein.  (All this is in the pelvic area.)  The vein was 70% occluded.  He used a balloon catheter, then put a stent in.  There's also some occlusion on the right, but not enough to justify intervention now, and maybe there never will be.  I have to see him in two to three weeks.

So, the vancomycin is over, I'm on ten days of doxycyline (Amy, my spelling) and I have to clean up the mess left in my house by the e coli infection.  There's a few other loose ends, but I'll not bore you.

Oh, and I'm a horrible vein stick, especially if you want to put a catheter in.  My veins are like angel hair pasta al dente swimming in alfredo sauce.  They move when you poke them.  (At least two nurses here have endorsed that description.)  I must still have a nice fat layer under my stiffening skin.  I've coined two phrases: vein angel (the nurse who always gets her vein) and 'no pain, no vein'.  The staff on the floor like them (but I'm sure they'll keep the second one to themselves).

I've got big purple splotches around some of the failed vein sticks.

Then I vote for Draich and Orsius.  (I take it the latter name is to be of Latin origin?)

Matthew, I'm going to do a couple chapters of your book next.  Do you want me to review the first two chapters, or to start somewhere else?

Santa Klaus (Wolfenbach, that is.)

State of Vengeance, Ch's 46 and 47.

Mystery meat word.   http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090914