Art -- I have absolutely no idea. This sounds nutso but it's only this past weekend that I could actually allow myself to feel any anger at my mother and not immediately become numb. This just when I was all alone

ATAT -- yep, you got the time difference right. No, the calls will begin with a delayed onset reaction (next week perhaps) if I don't succumb to garden variety guilt before then that is.

(Alright, I shall stop subjecting the Couch to my family saga right about here.)