Damn. That sound like a case study in How Not to Manage a Change of Health Insurance Companies.

ION, I have new socks. I was running out of socks that didn't have holes in them. So I bought 18 pairs.

Damn. That sound like a case study in How Not to Manage a Change of Health Insurance Companies.

My company's "HR Department" is Big!Boss's wife and daughter. So, yeah. We can't really complain about how things are done, because then we get in trouble.

t edit Of course, this is better than the year that Big!Boss's wife didn't pay our premium at the beginning of the year, and people tried to go to the doctor and/or get medication for EPILEPSY and were told that their insurance was cancelled.

Hand to god.

(Which makes me think that perhaps I'll get all my meds refilled before the end of the week....)

The printer is frelled.

I am like the walking dead.

Someone called me at 8:30 (and he's a very nice guy) to walk me through a set of changes to one of my documents. It would have been nice to hear about these changes before I spent last week creating a new draft.

I have been earwormed, this morning, by both "Bootylicious" and "Best of Both Worlds" (the Hannah Montana) theme song.

Did people watch the SAG awards? I seriously love award shows, but so sad this had no red carpet coverage (except horrible TV Guide channel) and then the awards - iugh - I think on the whole people looked bad - no ties, weird dresses, messy hair. Then there were old actors seeming confused and frail. And the Daniel Day Lewis paying homage to Heath Leadger in his acceptance speech which seemed odd. The whole thing was a mess.

I don't get the channel that broadcast it, so I missed out. Which I was regretting considering it might be our only awards show this year, but from what you are saying, maybe I am glad I missed it.

Steph, I've been meaning to ask, how did Big!Boss do with his bout of flesh-eating bacteria?

So far, of the new Austen things - Northanger Abbey is the best. Mansfield Park was full of wrongness: they didn't do anything to make Billie Piper seem of the period, the music seemed all wrong and yeah - it was BORING.

Mansfield Park is one of the where the screenplay was NOT by Andrew Davies who wrote the screenplays for the Firth/Ehle P&P and the Kate Beckinsale Emma. (The other is Persuasion.) So I have high hopes for Sense and Sensibility.

I decided to treat myself to dunkin latte this mornig. I paid for a large flavored latte, when back at my desk and I discovered it is a regular coffee. bleagh. Monday.

Steph, I've been meaning to ask, how did Big!Boss do with his bout of flesh-eating bacteria?

Well, he ultimately lost most of his left arm (to just above the elbow), and the infection left him with severe jaundice and requiring dialysis every day. That was March of 2005. He was back in the office in January 2006, and he eventually was able to get off dialysis. As if that in and of itself isn't amazing enough, by the middle-to-end of 2006, he was back in the office every day, working at least 8 hours a day.

By this point, almost 3 years later, at the age of 77, it's as if it never happened. Because he wears a suit jacket, the way the left sleeve hangs, if you walked up on his right side, you wouldn't even know that he lost an arm. As it is, he zips around like he's the Energizer bunny.

I am in love with Billie Piper, but man, was that awful. I couldn't watch the whole thing.

I am also sick with a cold AGAIN, so am annoyed.

Why couldn't they have, at least, done something about her HAIR? Do you think she refused to allow it? I mean, wouldn't it have helped her get into her part to have the right 'do?

(And Henry Crawford was played by the actor who played Malachi on Hex. I KNEW that I had seen him somewhere before.)