Thanks, Ailleann. I realized it's finally July which means it's Eureka time. I just want to hop in, unless I don't.

They also give the USPS an F for phonely customer service. Bleah.

and every other kind, in my experience.

It's not just things that I am bored by, and it's not as simple as having to pull my attention back.

Right. With me, it's not exactly things that I'm bored by, but tasks requiring certain kinds of attention. Grading papers is a good example -- I've got to keep switching between scanning the paper to find the student's answer (relatively simple -- doesn't require much brain power), checking to see if the answer's right (again, just a yes/no, pretty simple), but then, if it's wrong, I've got to go back, decipher the student's handwriting, figure out whether it's an arithmatic error or something else, decide how many points partial credit it should get, etc. It's that sort of thing where I need to keep switching my focus, but need to stay on track -- each time my focus switches, there's only one right place for it to switch to -- that I have a lot of trouble with. I can sit down and grade a stack of multiple choice tests and I'll be bored, but it's one task, one set of rules, and I can do it. Grading homeworks is FAR more difficult.

Since I started on Lexapro, I've found my focus and attention span have improved greatly. I think the anxiety part of my illness was causing the worst of those symptoms.

ION, Sparky, have you already seen the gethuman.com website? Here's their listing for dodging perpetual hold at USPS: 800?275?8777, Press 5 at each prompt, ignoring messages.

Thanks, JZ. Unfortunately, I wasn't dealing with the 800# people (that was last week) but the local post office trying to track down the supervisors. I got a call from a fellow this afternoon, new to me, who told me it would never happen again. So, my second poll of the day is: Raise your hand if you think I'll get mail tomorrow. . .

Yeah, me neither. ::sigh::

The Jews for Jesus are back in force in DC. I walked by two of them on my way to the metro today. The first one held out a pamphlet, I shook my head and kept walking, she went on to the next person. The second one, I did the same thing, and he STEPPED INTO MY PATH and demanded, "Why NOT?" If I'd had an extra few minutes, I totally would have started arguing with that guy. I didn't have an extra few minutes, though, so I just gave him a Look and said, "Get out of my way," and he did.

Go team Lexapro!

Go team Lexapro!

I'm thinking of getting t-shirts made.

I read too much Smallville fic, I keep thinking other things.

I think Lexapro is the reason the Instant Menopause one gets after a hysterectomy has not been kicking my ass aside from hot flashes.