Suzi, that's fantastic news! Also, I need to e-mail you. I see you in a week! Craziness!

I love a lot of caffeinated drinks but after thinking about it for the hour since I've logged on to bitches I'm going to proclaim that Black Tea (ideally with a touch of milk and honey) and Mountain Dew are my two favorites.

I am sleep deprived on account of construction. I can't decide whether to try for more sleep or give in and have caffeine.

Thanks Suzi, I hadn't seen that. And yeah for good doctor news!

How do his comments match your experience there?

Let's see. We didn't have to wait at all (and we also had an 8:45 reservation) but I agree that the hostess was less than impressive. But I didn't notice any of the casualness that the reviewer talks about.

One of the best dishes on my two recent visits was the boneless quail. It looked like a fatted duck, its breast plumped with sweetbreads and spinach, beautifully served with alternating logs of young leeks, roasted parsnips and slices of foie gras complementing the lightly smoked apple-flavored veal jus.

This was what I had! Delicious. The only other food choice we had that was in the review was the "Fleurburger" dessert:

Desserts also had a slightly retro feel - we're talking the 1990s here - although I loved the sense of humor showed in the Fleurburger, a tongue-in-cheek reference to Keller's wildly popular gourmet burger bar in Las Vegas. The bun is a house-made beignet, the filling is dark chocolate ganache and the "frites" are frozen sticks of fennel ice cream. The plate also comes with a small cherry-flavored milk shake.

My friend didn't love it, although he thought the fennel ice cream fries were great.

That's ridonkulous - plus, rather insensitive, given that the day before is a Very Important Day.

This was at a previous church-like employer. Not the present one. The present one gives us the day before Thanksgiving off as a President's Holiday.

We just discovered that we don't have the Nebraska code books anymore. Oops.

Suzi, glad to hear your blood work was pretty. I think we can now agree that you are beautiful inside and out.

The present one gives us the day before Thanksgiving off as a President's Holiday.

That's a wonderful policy - there should be more Presidents' Holidays everywhere - did they put this one in place upon your arrival? t /snerk

I loves my coffee, but for the sake of my poor congested nose today I am drinking tea.

Thanks, Burrell! Oh, and did you see my comment to you about what things I learned by doing the annotated bibliography I was bitching so much about?

Ooops, sorry I missed it. I am a notorious skipper, especially if I haven't been around for a few days. So I guess the assignment went well for you?

We just discovered that we don't have the Nebraska code books anymore. Oops.

Do you need something looked up, Sparky? We have them just down the aisle from my desk here.

Quick hivemind advice request:

I'm home sick today, so I expect to do a lot of catching up tomorrow and Friday. But remember a few weeks ago when I was grousing about long delays in setting up appointments with specialists? Well, I just got a call from someone who can fit Annabel in for a screening on Friday afternoon. (It's a speech evaluation that both her pediatrician and preschool teacher recommended she have.) And if we don't take the Friday appointment, between our schedule and the therapist's it'll be nearly a month before she can fit us in again.

DH is going to look at his schedule and see if he can be the one who takes her. But if he can't, should I email the office *today* and let them know I'll have to leave early Friday, or do I wait till tomorrow morning, get there early, do the most urgent things, and THEN tell them?

I wouldn't even be worried if it weren't for the new boss issue, because the people who've been there all along know I'm reliable and so on. Sigh. Now I'm wishing I'd dragged my sore-throated carcase in this morning, especially since I'm feeling so much better after a nap and some Dayquil.

Normally I'd say tell them asap, but since you're home sick today, I'd wait until morning.

Do you need something looked up, Sparky?

Fortunately, what we needed was in the supplement, which we do have. It's only the bound volumes that have gone AWOL. I'm going to cross my fingers that the law review article doesn't cite to Nebraska again.

Susan, could you go in for a couple hours this afternoon and win yourself some dedicated-employee points that way while you let them know you'll be leaving early Friday?