Hi, EndGame,
No surprise that this has all caught up with you. Your body is telling you that it, along with the rest of you, needed a break. Which you recognize, of course. I hope that a day of doing nothing was therapeutic.
Along with the rest of SR, I continue to hold Mary Ann and you in my thoughts. Yes, an elephant in the room for everyone in your world, but I'm hopeful for her.
At some point, I hope the new university opportunity registers a little "yee-ha!". Knock yourself out -- get a *really* expensive, caloric coffee drink or something equally enough out of the ordinary to qualify as celebratory. Maybe get something at Zabar's and then come back and write about it in gloating detail. I still remember a pear-ginger muffin there as being the best I'd ever tasted.
Take good care.