I am taking a strong stance against jeggings: term and clothing item.

Put that in your pie pan, bingo!

Things I Didn't Say to my supervisor at work last night, but might bring up today:

"You talking in a low voice about deliberately overdosing* a resident in order to create a situation that would get me into trouble as a means to let off steam because I had to write up a med. error involving a mistake you made, was kinda creepy (and let's not get into the unprofessional discussion, eh?). Sure we all let off steam, but most of us wait until we are alone or in some safe company to do it. I'm not sure if you did not realize you were speaking aloud, or if you were trying to intimidate me. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt at the moment, but please don't make me have this conversation with your supervisor. Also, about that bill you had asked me to post - did you ever put a stamp on it? Because the last time I saw it, it was sitting, stampless on the table, while I was notifying the nurse of the med. error. After I got done filling out the forms, the envelope was no longer there. I rather hope you are not planning on 'losing' the bill and pretending that you actually put it in my hands."

• *not a fatal overdose, just applying a topical treatment one extra time in a day. But still, creepifying and beyond inappropriate.

Eww, WindSparrow.

Methinks that "accidental topical overdose" needs to involve your foot upside her head.

Andi, please write down everything you remember she said in that low voice, initial and date the document, then put it in a safe place. I'm pretty sure that deliberately overdosing translates to something felonious. Caveat: I'm not a lawyer in your state.

It's a holiday at work today, and the students are in the middle of exams, so the library is quite dull. Also, I've had to ask a couple of students in a study room to keep their voices down, twice - but it's really one student in there who has the most amazing voice, which comes through the door and walls as if she's in the same room. I keep thinking she should have been an opera singer.

WindSparrow, that goes beyond creepy. What an awful person.

Ok, I have decided not to talk to her directly about it, but I have called her supervisor and left a message asking to talk.

Umm.....yeah that totally sounds outright criminal. Beyond criminal negligence, because it was actually intentional. That's a really strong reason to lose a job. Somehow i doubt the patient (or their family) would be thrilled to know that a care provider is deliberately mistreating them or their loved one out of petty spite.

It's Mad Men and we're talking about it in Cable Drama. I love my 'fistas.

Oh good, sounds like you found a happy medium.

"You talking in a low voice about deliberately overdosing* a resident in order to create a situation that would get me into trouble as a means to let off steam because I had to write up a med. error involving a mistake you made, was kinda creepy (and let's not get into the unprofessional discussion, eh?)

Yeah glad you decided to discuss this with her supervisor. She needs to be fired immediately. No warnings, no second chances.

In October, as I was leaving home, my mom asked me if I wanted to come on a cruise with the family over the holidays. I said that actually, I was planning a road trip. She said fine and hung up, so I thought she had accepted it.

A few weeks later, she pushed for the cruise again, and luckily, the timing wasn't really great for me to get off work, so I could use that excuse, but she still pushed. Didn't I want to spend time with the family? Why did I want to do a road trip? I could do a road trip any time. What did I mean, I'd never gone on a road trip by myself before, we did family road trips all the time when I was growing up. Who was I going with? Where was I staying? Blah di blah.

A week or so later, she was still on me to join the cruise, and she still did not understand this road trip business.

And then yesterday...she appeared to have finally accepted it! So much so that she offered to hook me up with places to stay in cities where I couldn't crash with friends. And she didn't get all paranoid about my use of female pronouns to refer to people I was potentially staying with. I'm not sure what changed, but maybe I just wore her down.

She hasn't gotten over the marriage thing, though. My grandmother consulted an astrologer in India, and apparently my chi is blocked or something, so they're going to bless some ornament for me to wear around my neck every Thursday, and she'll send me a really short mantra to say 21 times a day, and whatever. Also, they're really seriously for reals this time going to India next December for a relative's wedding, so they might as well take care of finding me a wife then too. I guess Sunil's Last Stand is imminent.

My current potential future wife is the daughter of my mom's childhood friend that my mom was randomly reunited with after 30 years, so it would make a good story if we hooked up. She hasn't responded to my e-mail, though. Good thing, by this time, I've stopped expecting responses from women. I sent out like seven OKCupid messages one night and only one responded. I sent out three or four more another night and got no hits. It's draining. Now I am pleasantly surprised when anyone follows through on actually contacting me. Like, for instance, the Sunil I met on Sunday invited a couple of us to a Fantastic Mr. Fox screening at Dreamworks, and he actually texted me last night with the details! It's really happening! Look at that, meeting people and doing stuff with them.