I am taking the next five minutes to sip my iced latte and pretend there is no stress.

Sounds like a good plan to me!

Huh. I just realized it's Friday the 13th.

So yesterday an employee brought his child in because he'd (the employee) had scheduled a meeting. He brought is child because the boy has pink eye and was kicked out of daycare. His son ran around touching everything and we ran around spraying whatever he touched with Lysol.

However, my supervisor is at home with pink eye. It doesn't look like anyone else has contracted it and we sprayed everything down again. If we don't have any symptoms by now does it mean we don't have it or could there be a chance it could show up later today.

Cashmere, who's taking care of the baby? How long will you be in Phoenix?

We're spreading around the kid with my sisters and Christopher's parents. That way, nobody gets too sleep deprived or tired. I have a feeling all this upheaval will screw his sleeping through the night well after we return home. We should be back home next Thursday. We fly into Phoenix Sunday afternoon (yay erika visit!) and fly out Wednesday. Collect the kid and drive back home Thursday.

My paper is going to be TOO long. I'm already about half-way through the page-limit, and I've only discussed one study. I have four studies to discuss. We're gonna be cutting machines later.

Too cute: [link]

Sure, it won't fit until 2006, but still!

I poke the *cats* to make sure they're alive.

I do that to my old cat. He doesn't appreciate it. "I'm making sure you're still alive, you toothless old git." "I'll remember that at 2 AM this morning."

I'll wake the dog up sometimes when she's too still. Once I actually lost her. In a studio apartment. She's near a hundred pounds, too, not the kind of dog who could fit into a drawer. Total panic. I finally found her curled up way in the back of the closet behind the laundry basket.

So yesterday an employee brought his child in because he'd (the employee) had scheduled a meeting. He brought is child because the boy has pink eye and was kicked out of daycare. His son ran around touching everything and we ran around spraying whatever he touched with Lysol.

OMG. In-appropriate! Though, maybe I'm wrong. I get worked over with guilt if I come in with a sniffle, but I have no parental perspective. But to me, I think: In-appropriate!

I poke my cat, just to be sure. She's 16 so I worry at times. Occasionally she doesn't repsond fast enough so I poke her again. I usually end with her looking at me with this "the hell? Sleeping here!" look on her face.