I've been reading the audiobooks with Belovedest. They seem to be enjoying sharing the series with me; I'm certainly enjoying sharing the series with them.

So I'm shuffling around in my need-to-be-filed papers, and I come across the positivity exercises that I yote pretty forcefully from the CanPlan cancer planner binder. I start looking them over, starting with the "Messages to God" section, and yelling a bit.

As I narrate the Waiting Room Exercise, Steph speaks up. (1. Facts I know for sure. 2. Assumptions I'm making. 3. Things I can control. 4. Things out of my control that I can pray for.) "Since you mentioned Messages to God, I've been hearing this in Harrow's voice."

"'Dear God, I am your meanest petitioner,'" I say, attempting to channel Nonagesimus. "... Harrow's messages to God, as filtered through the narrator of book 2." I snickered. "'Dear God, I am a whiny little bitch...'"