updatey

musique_monkey is starting to feel better.  He's going to be exhausted and breathless for a long time, and need to rest a lot, but he's in less pain and recovers faster when he does tire himself out.  Thank you for all the good wishes and help.  Sorry if I haven't had time to respond to everyone.

Spider is feeling positive about Long Road, even the Long Bike Ride.  We found out a bit more about Hills Road admissions.  Seems they were overwhelmed with applicants for Sciences this year.  Normally, they look at your best 8 predicted grades--including Maths and Eng Lang--and make you an offer if you have 6 As.  Spider has 6 As, though actually getting them is of course a whole nother challenge.  This year for Sciences, they are making offers only to people who are predicted 8 As so Spider, and many like him are out.
I can't fault the logic, but it seems a fairly crap way of recruiting the best scientists, since only 4 of those 8 As are going to be for Maths and Sciences.  And because one of the As has to be English Lang, it's a pretty clear statement that they're not interested in anyone with significant dyslexia, however brilliant he/she may be at Maths or Science.  There is no way in the known universe that Spider could ever get an A for English Language.  (Correction: no legal way.)  I expect Long Road Science dept will be rubbing their hands in glee.  

The monkey house is well on the way to being packed up, with sterling help from tamaranth and ladymoonray yesterday, and la_marquise_de_ plus marquis today.  Monkeycats appear to be self-packing, but also self-unpacking.  Monkey boys are very good at stacking boxes.

I'm going to pack the computer today.  We'll still have internet and laptop for a while, but I don't suppose I'll be posting or replying until we're set up in the new place.

Have a good Easter!