Skipping and skimming hundreds of posts to announce that I'm at last back in my own chair at my regular computer--though I'm still taking lots of ibuprofen and spending an hour or two per day lying on the couch with an ice pack strapped to my back.

In other happy news, Annabel finally has a regular nap schedule! After she eats her lunch, I put her in the crib, and she barely complains, falls asleep within fifteen minutes, and stays down for up to two hours.

I hope someone else is in the office now so you can rinse off?

Not someone officey...there's a counselor, but I'm not sure if I can ask them to answer phones. This chocolate is gonna dig into this skirt and ruin it. At least it was cheap, but damn, I liked it.

Stupid thing is making me cry (although, it doesn't take much for that right now).

I think "Can you watch the phones while I run to the bathroom and clean up? I spilled my drink all over myself" is always permissable. If it can't be done, the counselor can say no.

This chocolate is gonna dig into this skirt and ruin it. At least it was cheap, but damn, I liked it.

When you get home, wash the skirt by hand in mildly-warm water, and some baby shampoo. If that doesn't solve the problem, then get a Dryel kit and use the Dryel stain remover.

I have to go straight to school from work. I have no time to run home and change. I'm gonna look like a crazy, dirty fool on my first night of class.

Oh no! vw (which I'm pronouncing vee-dub internally), is your class at six?

vw, you're going to look like a woman who was mildly nervous and excited her first day of work and was a little clumsy with a coffee drink. No crazy, no dirty. It's okay, really. It's fixable. At least it wasn't boiling hot coffee, you didn't get scalded, and your nylons didn't melt into your skin, right?

All in how you look at it.

Yeah. And I'm off work at 5.

Where are you catching the T? Or are you driving to school?

ETS unnecessary preposition

Almost all y'all are too young to get the Yoko thing. Where's Hec?