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Yesterday we got some 3D ultrasound images of our daughter’s face.

This one’s my favorite:

I cannot get enough of looking at her. I know full well that these images are approximate 3D renderings of 2D data, and that they’re blurry and ghostly and partial. But she has a face, a real human face, the one she will be born with, if all goes well for the next 16 or so weeks. I am getting heavier, and I have way less stamina than usual. But who cares. It’s funny how these images make me able to focus on her in a way I couldn’t before. She is no longer an abstraction, not at all. She has every organ she needs to and weighs 1 pound 5 ounces. Which made me shudder slightly when I realized how much heavier my belly will get before she’s ready to come out. We don’t yet have a name for her though her in-the-womb name is Faustina - this week.

In other news, the Verizon misery is finally resolved, though it was really extremely miserable. I simply can’t understand why anyone would run a company as if it were a state-owned service organization in an Eastern Bloc country in the 1970s.

In between Christmas travel to Hungary, moving to a larger place, finishing the semester (well, that was a few weeks ago now but I’m still recovering), and so on - I have no time to think of blogging. But this shall change, I hope, once internet access is set up at the new house on Monday. At least, I have every intention of it changing!

UPDATE Because I must vent. I hate Verizon. I hate that it’s often impossible to get to a person when you call about a service order you’re trying to check on. Or about perhaps fixing a service order that they botched. Because I would say that forgetting to turn on phone service at the new house when I request it and they say they would, and forgetting to turn off phone service at the old house when I request it and they say they would is pretty seriously botching an order. And no one you talk to seems to be able to determine how things could be fixed. But at least that day I could get to a person. Well - eight persons, to be precise, all of whom apologized profusely, sent me on to the next person, and did not do anything useful. Today I couldn’t even talk to anyone because after a long (5-10 minutes) series of prompts where the irritating recorded female voice asks you to say what kind of question you’re calling with, only to tell you she could not understand your response, the system kept hanging up on me. Also? Their web site is tremendously slow and does not work properly in Camino. Not the best advertising for a telecommunications company… not that they need advertising: it’s basically a monopoly situation!