Wait... I just went back and re-read. The doctor was unapologetic? What the what now?

Oh, they let me use my cell to call work and tell my principal I wouldn't be back today, and forgot to take it back, and I let all my bitches use it.

Always looking out for others. {{Erin}} Yep, you win the worst Monday prize! This means all the Mondays for the rest of the decade must be wonderful.

Sean! Well done. It sounds like it was a great closing.

Doc called me in some pain meds but was unapologetic about the fuckus at the office on Friday. Mmm...I'm looking into recs for another doctor.

I missed this upon reading somehow. WTF?!? Definitely time for a new doctor. Good luck finding a good one.

Cash, your doctor didn't even have the grace to apologize? That's intolerable. I wish her itches in places she can't reach to scratch.

Erin, I would totally buy your memoirs. Hell, I feel like I should pay you for the laugh you just gave me, imagining you asking the nice jailers to slide that leather belt a little lower on your hips. You won't be soon forgotten there!

Not that I'm laughing at your pain. I'm laughing with you. On the inside. I got way too close to handcuffs myself last August when I spaced out and fucked up badly with my own car stuff. Too many legalities - there's too much to potentially screw up and not even know it.

I'm growing increasingly convinced that cars are tools of the Devil.

Oh yeah. This is why I buy old cars, preferably old enough they don't have computers in them. They're easy to fix, there's less that can go wrong, you don't have to take out collision insurance, and they're cheap enough to buy that if the thing dies completely, it's not a huge loss. I covet, say, a brand-new Passat, but I can't bring myself to pay more than $7000 for a rapidly-depreciating asset.

Is Krrist supposed to be a sound effect?

Eyeliner of the Day: emerald.

I was going to whine about apparently catching a mild version of the ick over the interwebs, but instead:

{{{{{{Erin}}}}}}

You rawk. I'm so impressed with how well you've handled the last few months. So. very. impressed.

eta: I must have missed Cash's post, because I'm flabbergasted that he's not apologetic. What an asshat.

They're easy to fix, there's less that can go wrong, you don't have to take out collision insurance, and they're cheap enough to buy that if the thing dies completely, it's not a huge loss.

I read an article once about a guy who only bought the cheapest used cars and junked them whenever they needed any work beyond an oil change. Some lasted three months; some lasted five years. His total cost for cars over a 30-year period was amazingly low.

eta: Sorry about your stay in the joint, Erin. You have officially had a very bad day.

I bought a three year old Chevy in 1993 for less than $5000. I drove it ten years and put over 200,000 miles on it and never had to do any major repair except something with the transmission that didn't really cost very much. It was a good car, and a helluva good deal.

What did you say to her?

I told her that I shouldn't have left her office on Friday without a script and that her diagnosis was correct. When I told her that I called at 4 trying to get a script called in she said, "Well, we were still seeing patients...." Like she couldn't have spent five minutes calling in a script for me. I could overlook their weekend no-scripts policy because that's set by the practice, not her. But the fact that she excuses everyone for not doing their job because it's after 4 on a Friday is bullshit.

How are you feeling?

Doped to the gills and doing better. Valtrex for the virus, Ultram for the pain, Benedryl for the itch and some calamine lotion coating the rash. I'm a walking, talking pharmacy.

I'm going to talk to my friend, Mo, about her doc. She seems to love him and says he answers medical questions via e-mail and is very helpful.

"Well, we were still seeing patients...." Like she couldn't have spent five minutes calling in a script for me. I could overlook their weekend no-scripts policy because that's set by the practice, not her. But the fact that she excuses everyone for not doing their job because it's after 4 on a Friday is bullshit.

I'm glad you got pain meds, at least.

It's so quiet in here tonight. I'm trying to finish a paper for my class and I am missing my just finished a section distraction.