{{{Aims}}}} A little late, but it sounds like she's getting damned fine parenting...maybe just a little overly imaginative and under stimulated at school. Happens a lot to the smart ones.

IOMeNews, my exploding eyeballs (alternately going over all red and full-feeling) took me to the opthamologist today and i has viral conjunctivitis. No idea where i could have gotten it, but now i have eyedrops to use thrice daily and six loads of laundry in process (i hate my basement stairs right now) to eliminate any virus on my sheets, pillowcases, towels....and of course that means kitties will also be subjected to baths tonight. The fun never ends! The most annoying is being stuck in glasses for two weeks. I always wear contacts. i hate glasses and what they do to my peripheral vision. seriously, i broke my foot last month from missing a single stair, how paranoid am i that i'll break the other leg now that i'm stuck in glasses for a fortnight?

And then the vanity struck home as i was leaving the eye dr. No contacts for two weeks? That means glasses for PixDesign extravanganza! AND the evil grey aircast/boot. And i have nothing fun to wear, especially nothing fun that will mask either the boot or my eyes. All my fun ball gowns are several sizes too small. I fear i will be the frumpiest frump ever. Oh yeah, and i'm supposed to throw out all my makeup even though i haven't touched the case i keep it in for many weeks. (seriously, i only wear makeup for special occasions and the last was xmas game name). Ugh.

(on the bright side? because of air cast monopolizing right foot i can pack twice as many shoes for the left! they just all have to be the same height as the boot....which leaves me with a clog, a heel, and mule. that totally sounds like the opening to a very boring joke.)

Erin, so many pains in your ass! I disapprove.

Teppy, I just ordered that probiotic you recommended at drugstore.com, and it is on sale right now fwiw.

Oh, I want to try that. I should order some tomorrow.

Three interviews today. First one, I think, went really well. Second one seemed to go pretty well. Third one, well, they just told me yesterday that they wanted to interview me today. So my plan was to use the hour or two that I had in between interviews to look up some info on the school and the job so that I could be prepared. Unfortunately, internet access was down at the Moscone Center. (It's now been down for at least eight hours. Several hundred mathematicians are very unhappy. At least, the ones who don't have iPhones or Blackberries.) So I scrambled together whatever information I could get from the resource books, which told me a bit about the school but none of the math-specific information that I actually needed to sound like I was interested. Basically, I found out that it's a small school in Connecticut. And the first question they asked was why I wanted to work at that school. I kind of babbled a bit and then said that I wanted to work at a small school in the Northeast. I was able to make that sound convincing by giving some reasons why I like small schools and saying that my family is all in the Northeast. The rest of the interview went OK, but I still had to kind of make up some stuff as I went along.

Damn. I just realized that I got salsa in my hair at lunch, and it's been just sitting there all afternoon. At least all my interviews were in the morning.

How long have you had the explodey eyeball, erin? Because I've caught pinkeye several times (hello, teaching; I've also had lice: GROSS) and never tossed anything besides mascara. (And if it had been pricey mascara vs. cheap stuff, I would have just cleaned the brush off.)

Really, if you haven't touched in in several weeks, I would keep it.

P-C I know it's hard but you are doing awesome you really are.

And Aimee I wish I had some advice but you and Joe are good parents.

I haven't had caffeine since Monday and so far I'm doing okay. I get really sleepy in the afternoons and I'm not sleeping well at night but no headaches. A few cravings for Diet Cokes. And I feel tired but I'm wondering if I've just been really tired and run down from the infection and all the caffeine had masked it. Or if it's just the antibiotics.

P-C I know it's hard but you are doing awesome you really are.

Thanks. And I don't even have it that bad: a friend of mine just got kicked out of the house for some scarf-related drama with her grandmother.

I'm trying to decide if I should call the friends that I had dinner with last night and see if they want to have dinner together again, or if I just want to sleep. I think I'm leaning more toward sleeping. I've been all energy all day for interviews, and now I think I'm about to crash.

Paging Nicole: your invitation to our shindig, which we mailed Dec 22nd, just got returned to us today. I had addressed it to you and your DH with your old last name, not knowing if you'd changed it, but I used your DH's full name, so I'm not sure why that would have mattered. Anyway, I doubt you were planning to come, but I wanted to let you know we weren't uninviting you. Stupid USPS.

(moan) I think I'm actually going to need lawyers, guns and money. I have here not one, not two, but three official Seven Day Notices from management and they all relate to Next Door.

Requiring me to pull off a $2,000 repair job in in seven days is just not going to happen. Especially since the part in question was damaged by workers hired by management lo these many years ago.

I also have to "remove wood" from the back yard. Not allowed to have lumber, even when it can't be seen from the street.

Honestly, if anyone can offer some cogent advice about how a nerd may engage the appropriate sort of lawyer for this dilemma, I'd be ever so grateful.