I am feeling better today. Drained and exhausted but better. After I logged off last night, I actually fell straight to sleep. Take that you frelling insomnia fairies.

I'm so sorry about the meltdown. But a vacuum ultimately is a small price to pay for an epiphany. I'm glad things are a little calmer for you now.

It was also ironic. I loathe vacuuming, really really loathe it. I will seriously not vacuum for months if I can still see the color of the rugs through the cat hair. Floors are my house-keeping downfall. Like kyptonite. Which last night was my downfall.

Also, vacuum totally had it coming. You should replace it with the Dyson Animal model. OK, it is crazy expensive even on eBay where I got mine. But it is awesomely awesome on pet hair. My rugs are a new color.

t runs to check eBay

Can you get insist-y at your office about getting some AC in there? Working in a hot office all day isn't good for the coping skills, no matter what is going on with you, sweetie. I'm also not sure it is legal.

I am going to try and check today to find out what is happening on this. If there is a legal room temperature, I know we soared past it on Friday but I don't know about yesterday. But, yes, the crankiness at the office isn't just me. We all pretty much just went to email yesterday.

This was the one that Toto just laid next to with his head on his leg.

We likes him.

For her, every book is sacred

Am I the only one earwormed with a Monty Python song now?

I told her I was going to be looking for some job here to support me, because at least I'd be making some money. She of course said that's why I should come home, so I wouldn't have to keep losing money. And I said I understood that, but I was staying here.

Go team P-C!

so I finally said, "You don't have to understand, I've got it taken care of," which is so my favorite thing I've said today.

It is mine too. Do you realize how much better you sound today? It's wonderful.

Now I've got to go figure out my armpit grain

Mine whorls all around. Which apparently why shaving sucks so badly and why it takes three directions if I get waxed. I need permanent hair removal obviously.

Can anyone recommend a really powerful women's antiperspirant?

I like Secret. For just deo, I like the crystal ones. No odor but you can still sweat. I wore only that much of the time in Phoenix. Sweating was good there, stinking was not.

Em learned to drink from a cup, give kisses (which she does open mouth and it's funny, especially when she does the third thing she learned) and stick her tongue out.

Em's learning to kiss with tongue?

Oy! I have cramps today. Nazi death cramps kicking my pale tummy with their shiny black boots.

I love the new hair lib! What a change too.

Book-free anythings are wrong.

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Well, I know my PT could fix this, but I don't see him till Thursday.

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All of that, and I forgot to boast that I had voted already today.

(San Diego needs a new mayor. Again. Because after the write-in lost, the guy we actually did elect sort of needed to resign. Let's never discuss it again.)

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I like the looks of your library, beth.

When I think of "stacks" I think of the maze of shelves at the LSU library that was in the middle of the building and seemed to be structurally separate from the rest of the library - a tower of metal shelves and books and flooring you could see, with more floors than the actual building and its own staircases and the whole thing groaning as you moved around it.

That's not, I guess, the definition.

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If you have no place to go - take it . If you have things to do I'd go tobed early and take it then

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If the four ibuprofen I'm about to take with lunch don't help, is there any reason I shouldn't break out the flexeril and tylenol 3 for this? I just want the muscles to loosen up so I can write again, and not be in such constant pain.

You can take the flexeri and tylenol 3 if the ibuprofen doesn't work, no problem.

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Heh. Emmett just got asked to help out the 9 y.o. Tournament Team this weekend. (He's on the 8 y.o. team.) Which means that even on the all-star team, they think he can play at the next level up - with older all-stars.

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The idea behind the closed library is the patron would find a book in the card catalog adn then request it from the librarian, who would then locate it and give it to the patron (to check out or whatever).

But they may not have gone through with that plan.

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I simply can't get my head around bookless libraries. It sounds like some freakish world I never want to visit. Browsing stacks is like treasure hunting for me. Several times, while looking for a specific book, I've found one or two in the same subject in the vicinity and they proved to be better than what I was looking for.

It's not the destination, it's the trip that makes it worthwhile.

I use Secret AP when I remember to apply it, which isn't often lately.

We spent the afternoon frolicking in the backyard in a blow-up paddling pool and eating popsicles.

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Thanks, Teppy! If I'm not better by 2:00 or so, I'll break out the serious drugs.

Emmett's a superstar!

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