We went to retrieve the plants from Ross’s office today—here’s how they fared:

Aloevera: Got knocked off the windowsill and has broken limbs. May not survive.
Succulent #1 (the one with the stem that we splinted with a chopstick last year): Seems to have been a little over-watered and got very brown and sad. Will probably survive, but be extremely ugly for the rest of its natural life. Poor thing.
Succulent #2 (the one with the long hairy arms): Was perhaps a little under-watered; also brown and sad. Will certainly survive and live to tickle another arm.
Cactus: A-Ok. You go, cactus.
Orchid: Happy green leaves and three new aerial roots poking out! YAY!

We’ll need to go on a plant-purchasing trip in the spring, but we were planning on doing that anyway, and at least the orchid survived, so I couldn’t be happier. Sarah, what do you think about growing rosemary in the house as a decorative plant (as well as for the herbs, natch)? Let me know.

And now I must leave you to read this, which I promised to review for a magazine. Heh. Also, the review copy they sent me is AWOL (the Chicago postal service is horrifically inept), so I actually had to purchase the damn thing yesterday, and ask a bookstore employee to look it up for me first; he took great pleasure in telling me “We should have it downstairs, in the Self-Improvement section… in the sub-section Relationships.” Double heh. I’m planning on returning it to the store after I’m done writing the review (shhh), but if any of you, my loyal readers, feel it would be of use to you in your personal lives, please let me know. I will put it in the mail and not tell anyone.

Probably.