It is Friday and I don't want to work. Please look into this.

I had a disturbing thought on the train today. I was thinking, "It's Friday, but it might as well be Monday, as I still have to work 8 hours." Of course, after work I can celebrate the Fridayness, but until then....

ION, I had a really good 90 minute massage last night, so I feel all flexible and relaxed and I feel like I'm breathing slower than usual.

There is a committee to Save the Derby, JZ, and they seem to be doing a pretty good job. They've enlisted several historical and preservation groups and did a great job of getting the whole neighborhood out.

I haven't slept at all. I'm wide-awake but a little shaky. So awake. Tim chatted with me until he had to sleep, and was outraged on my behalf about the Derby. Then I just sort of tossed and turned for a few hours and decided to get up and make coffee and do a little laundry before work. Bleh. Thank god I took half a day vacation, and then tonight is Tim's class, which I'm so excited to attend!

I see much caffeine in my future.

I see much caffeine in my future.

You should clean up that coffee spill on your crystal ball....

my subway was just as crowded. not fair. In my extremely scientific study that I just conducted in my head, I have determined that more people in Bklyn get today off the people in Qns.

Doesn't George Eads have any loved ones? Friends? Acquaintances? What is that? I sincerely hope it's for work.

Wait -- Allyson, Tim went to sleep before you? That's pretty hard core. That Derby shit is...I know people can be sanguine about the new replacing the old, but I can't get happy about the bland replacing the individual.

Having skipped and skimmed, when JZ said "save the Derby" - I thought, "Kentucky Derby" and got a little upset.

But all good now.

Difficult not to be good when you've just been visiting with a 6 week old black lab pup! (In the office -- even BETTER.)

In my extremely scientific study that I just conducted in my head, I have determined that more people in Bklyn get today off the people in Qns.

I don't know if I can trust those results. I mean, did you even survey the lurkers in email?

What is that?

Scary, and wrong?

But all good now.

You're on Whole Foods' side, aren't you? Greedy capitalist pig.

Scary, and wrong?

Also, it may be evil.

Silly question: how do you pronounce Tenafly, as in Tenafly, NJ? A colleague who is from Idaho just said it on the phone, and I'm pretty sure he said it wrong, but now I can't remember how you say it.

Side note: how do you google that kind of question? I tried it a bit, and had way too much noise in my signal.

I haven't seen any poppies today. I sort of expected to see at least a few, since the city population skews so European, but no.