...I'm guessing we're talking different scales? 'Cause otherwise, you're going to MELT! MELT, I say!

On my scale, I spent today in 40 degree heat. With a power outage over much of Melbourne (including trains and traffic lights) due to a bushfire cutting a power line. I was not in my air conditioned office. I was at the Australian Open.

Ok, so it's not all bad.

I had 14 voicemails when I came in the door this morning. I think I have officially flooded over into Too Much Work For One Person.

Doesn't help that I wore my crankypants into the office today.

Gah.

Doesn't help that I wore my crankypants into the office today.

If I hadn't worn my crankypants, 14 voice mails would have magically changed my pants into crankypants.

I left the key to my file cabinet at home, I lock the keys to the other offices in there so now I can't open the offices.

I can't think of a good way to teach you how to pick a file cabinet lock over the internet. You often can unbend the fatter end of a paper clip, and then wiggle the curved in around to the point that you can use it to turn the lock.

Not that I've ever done such a thing.

Have people seen this? Strange Sisters - "An archive of Lesbian Paperback Artwork from the '50s and '60s."

eta: Years ago I bought this as a postcard: Satan was a Lesbian

eta²: Oh, the first link front page is more or less worksafe, but....

I left the key to my file cabinet at home, I lock the keys to the other offices in there so now I can't open the offices.

If no one else is going to be there until noon, and if you have no work to do because you can't get into the other offices and file cabinet, can't you go back home and get the file cabinet key?

Also, maybe put the file cabinet key on your keychain?

One of the doors is opened so now I can do some work. I usually keep my file cabinet key on my key chain, but I lent it to someone and then lost my keys so I'm using a back up set and haven't put that key on the new chain yet.

I can't really leave the office unattended, part of my job is to answer the phones and greet anyone who comes by so I can't really be gone for an hour (or how ever long it would take me to make the round trip). But now I have access to some busy work I can do.

Eek! Tonight I go Back To School for a class that looks rewarding but quite challenging... "Gender Issues in Higher Education."

"Gender Issues in Higher Education."

Nora, Nora, Nora. What issues could there *possibly* be? You *know* that the wimmins ain't suited to book-learnin' or cipherin'.

Pretty FEMA tarp dress: [link]

Today is the final day for entries in Etsy’s Upcycling contest, and I just completed my own final entry for the contest earlier today.

It’s a bustier, skirt, and flower choker made from recycled FEMA blue tarp. Last year around Mardi Gras, I participated in a fashion show fundraiser charity auction to benefit the America’s Wetland organization. The only rule for the auction was that all of the outfits had to be made using blue tarp as the primary material.