Just got back from first day at a new temp assignment.

At my last assignment they paid me not so much money for difficult and complex, fairly high responsible work.

Today I got paid almost double that to sit around and read magazines and eat free opera cake and salad with London broil and mediteranean coulis.

Why? Because on this job I was an "Executive Assistant."

WTF? Why the work world gotta be so inequitable?

Pity me! They made me eat opera cake until I was stuffed!

Ha! Now I wonder what we should have been calling the guy with the five-head in high school. I mean, we called him five-head, but it was extreme. I think he actually had A Condition.

Noah's pictures from Descanso Gardens were adorable.

Tyra did not come up with fivehead!

I know but she's the one I heard it from.

I know it would not work on my face, but I want to shave my head some day.

::claps hand to mouth like the winner of the Miss America Pageant::

I think after the wedding I might go with something pixieish.

::runs around the living room in victory lap with arms flapping like Kermit::

David, she doesn't have a five-head. She has more of a seven-head.

Maybe if they did a hair transplant and lowered her hairline. A reverse Rita Hayworth.

Why the work world gotta be so inequitable?

Got no clue, but I say go fo da money.

Kat, given Grace's accessories, you're right--she's not high on the list for baby-snatching. That said, the NICU I work in is locked and uses lojacks. We use both precautions on all babies in our hospital no matter whether they're in the NICU, on postpartum, or in Peds. I don't think it's possible to be too careful.

Thanks, Laura. Next week, our big outting will be to Santa Anita Race Track early in the morning to watch them exercise the horses (which is FREE!). K is taking Wednesday off (and I'm going to work for her instead) and she's going to take him to Huntington for his weekly garden visit.

I love that Noah has outings now. Grace remains in my prayers that she will get to go on fun outings soon.

Huntington hospital's NICU felt much safer-- you had to call and talk to the receptionist and the receptionists rocked! They also sat right next to the sink and regulated handwashing.

It was more that everyone knew who you were because they took photos of all parents and had it as part of the chart. There was never any of the "who are you?" At Children's it is much looser. you can basically just buzz and they let everyone in. It doesn't make me uneasy for my kid (again, she's too hard to steal), but if I had a healthier baby it might.

Then again if I had a healthier baby, she wouldn't be there.

I'm out on the east coast, and I know NICU practices vary regionally. Different isn't necessarily better or worse. We have to do what's right for our particular area. I happen to work in a well to do suburb where faxes about suspicious women in scrubs attempting to get into baby areas in local hospitals aren't all that uncommon.