So my sister and brother are moving back to Boston, officially. She got residency interviews at pretty much every Harvard affiliated program other than MGH (which I have had to hear 38 rants about approximately) and at all the other local posh universities asides. The main reason is actually for my brother, who for the last 4 years, has steadfastly refused to develop a social life in Chicago. So my sister just told him to give up his business and try to get a job with his biggest clients. They basically jumped in joy when he asked so now he’s becoming the director of tech at that company and my sis says she’s going to rank the Boston programs first. With the market the way it is they probably aren’t going to make a ton of money on their condo but their goal is just to break even.

What helps: the fact that they have two sets of parents within spitting distance of my sister’s hospitals that they can live with until the condo sale goes down. Not that they are ecstatic about it but it helps to not have to pay rents and mortgages at the same time. After trying out both sets during Xmas it has been decided that they’ll shack up with Mummy and Babs, who are apparently higher on the Annoying Lecture about Trivial Issues Scale (also my brother claims Babs has a proclivity towards grandiose statements even on subjects he doesn’t know much about) but way way way lower on the Complete Basketcase Scale.

The whole thing just makes me feel lonely and resentful. Now I know full well that my sister and brother will never have to hoard vacation again because they’ll just see our families every Sunday for dinner. I swear to you all I’m going back too. If not for Mummy and Babs and Bunsen and Beaker and BeakerFam….then for the apple frocking cider.