Very definitely not pregnant.

I had yet another encounter with my pharmacist today. I brought back the prescription that the other pharmacy wasn't able to fill yesterday. On Tuesday, she'd said, "We're not getting this one in until Friday." So, I hand her that prescription again. And she says, "We don't keep this in stock, because nobody ever asks for it." I HAVE BEEN GOING TO THIS PHARMACY AND TRYING (USUALLY UNSUCCESSFULLY) TO GET THIS PRESCRIPTION FILLED EVERY FEW MONTHS FOR OVER A YEAR. So she says she can order it, but can't call in the order until tomorrow. (I don't know why. I didn't ask why. I'm tired of explanations of pharmacy procedure.) So it won't be in until next week.

Now, this one isn't urgent, and I can wait until next week, though being able to get it Tuesday would have been better. But last time I had this one filled, she asked me whether I'd be getting it frequently, because not too many people do take it, and she wanted to know whether she should keep it in stock, and I said yes. And I really wish there were some other pharmacy I could go to, but there isn't anything else in my neighborhood.

Oh, Hil, how stupidly frustrating. Do you have the option of using a mail-order pharmacy?

Hil, that is just ridiculous. I'm so sorry you have to deal with that. My CVS is usually wonderful. I'm realizing right now how completely lucky I am for that.

I am both not-pregnant and preparing to leave for New York tomorrow. I'm a procrastinator by nature, but when it comes to packing, I do it very much on purpose. Travel always gets me excited in the most irritatingly exhausting way, so I spend the 24 hours beforehand being busy getting everything together instead of dithering. Mostly I'll just be glad not to be somewhere that's encased in ice. See you in ten days, Bitches.

OK, that's a level of incompetence that would result in me explaining to the pharmacist exactly why I'd be taking my business to a competitor in a less convenient location. And then mentioning that I would also be tracking down the owners of the chain and enlightening them about the revenue losing procedural difficulties their employees are having.

Once I figure out somewhere else to get my prescriptions filled, I will be switching over, and writing to the CVS management. I'm going to look into the prescriptions by mail thing, but I think that, last time I checked, there were some issues with getting Schedule II drugs that way.

Once I figure out somewhere else to get my prescriptions filled, I will be switching over

I'm not sure where you live but in my area we have Meijer and Walgreens pharmacies. The local hospital also has one.

Deb, have a wonderful makeover. CBS is one of the stations that do not come in on my tv, otherwise I'd be watching like mad.

The lah-di-dah thing? Always, only, ever comes in my mental framework in Archie Bunker's disparaging tone of voice.

CVS seems by far the dominant pharmacy chain in DC, unfortunately.

Teppy's still not coughing up the answer.

Didn't Teppy do this once, about a dream that involved kissing one of us? Teppy is a dream tease.

Hey, hey, hey. I was on my way home and then had to install the software (and hardware) for my new high-speed broadband connection. It's cool!

Anyway, the dream woman was.... JZ. She was holding a wee little baby-sized jacket, and I asked her if she was pregnant, and she just smiled, and then I leaned down to her belly and told the baby, "Hurry up and get big so you can get out here!"

(Truthfully, I would have been seriously freaked out if I had predicted it via my weird dreams. So while I look forward to Zmayhem offspring, I don't want to be foretelling their arrival. [And that goes for anyone else, too -- have all the Bitch babies you want, but I don't want to predict them! It's too creepy.])