strength~ma, ND

~ma to you, ND. Any news?

Yet another afternoon where I should be doing laundry or cleaning my apartment, but I'm not, because I'm too tired.

I see your tired and raise you a migraine with nausea. In addition to laundry, I need to go to the grocery and drug stores, walk the dog, fix and eat dinner, finish sorting all my dance shit for the sale this weekend, put price tags on all that shit, pack my stuff and stuff for Frankie since the sale is out of town, email the friend I'm staying with and the one I'm having dinner with on Saturday. And take a shower. And I need to be in bed in about two hours.

And my iPhone is having some sort of White Screen of Death issue.

Yet another afternoon where I should be doing laundry or cleaning my apartment, but I'm not, because I'm too tired.

Just talked to my sister, D is apparently awake but my sister hasn't been able to see her yet. Sounds like she'll probably lose at least part of one of her legs, will be hospitalized for at least 6 weeks, and then physical therapy for at least a year.

ND, that is just awful. Lots of ~ma headed her way.

Well, iPhone is fixed at least. I was going to walk to the store with the dog and grab dinner there, but it closes in 20 minutes so that's out. ::sigh:: My struggles in prioritizing and focus, let me show you them.

That sounds very hard, ND, but I'm glad it looks like D will pull through.

I'm at home watching the Maddow Show. Today has been a day of misses and mix-ups. I thought I had an off-site meeting, went to it, and discovered it was next week. I thought I had a book group meeting, but the host never sent a notice and never responded to my email asking for directions, so I guess not. I thought I was going to the gym and, well, that was just me being exhausted after several nights of less sleep than needed. Plus I'm all crampy and tired for the usual monthly reasons.

I hope I get a decent night's sleep tonight and catch up on competency tomorrow.

~ma, ND.

So, I'm reading Two Lumps [link] and wondering, if Harvey were inclined to daydream himself into a movie, what would it be? I'm thinking, a Cary Grant film, maybe It Takes a Theif or Charade.

Oy. My campus interview next week is going to last all day -- I'm giving a talk, I've got 45-minute interviews with two different people, and then other interviews with whoever else wants to talk to me. We're going to have lunch at the campus dining hall, which is fine -- I checked out their webpage, and they always have a vegan option. But they also want to take me out to dinner at a restaurant. I don't know which restaurant, but I do know that I've searched hard through the menus of the local restaurants and found almost nothing I would eat right off the menu. I really don't want to have to go through the "I'll have the chicken pasta, without the chicken, and make sure there's no chicken broth used, and olive oil instead of butter, and no cheese on top, and plain bread instead of garlic bread on the side if the garlic bread is made with butter, and what salad dressing? Um, whatever you have that's not made with mayonnaise," thing in front of people who are trying to decide whether to hire me.

Hil,

Have you tried calling the most likely restaurants and asking if they have any vegan items not on the menu? Many do, and then if they pick one of your suggestions, you will be forearmed.