They had no ahi tuna at the fish place. I had mahi mahi. It wasn't sufficiently substitutable.

I don't have phone anxiety, so much as I have voice mail anxiety. Why do I stare at the little red light for so long? There are no real people on the other end of it, and it doesn't presage anything more foreboding than my email likely does.

Suzi, does your iTouch have a camera?

Nope, not that snazzy. And I need a USB thing for my camera memory card - had been using Kelly's over the summer.

Just heard back from the surgical liaison--surgery has been cleared by the insurance! Now I've got my ultrasound and endoscopy scheduled for 10/21, and only after that happens can we schedule the actual surgery. However, it looks like it won't be able to happen until the week of Thanksgiving, at the earliest, which will mess with my mom's schedule. We were hoping to get it in the week before, but I have to have a full seven weeks of liquid diet, starting tomorrow, and we can't stint on that.

Oh, well, I think she'll still come out to be with me, even if it is that week. At least I won't be in the mood to eat the holiday meal!!

Kathy, congrats on getting insurance to cover it! Yay!

surgery has been cleared by the insurance!

WOO-HOO!!! I'm excited for you!

I'm glad that the surgery plans keep forging ahead, Kathy. But 7 weeks' liquid diet? Unfun. Do you get to drink things like milk, or does it have to be clear liquids?

Half of my cupcakes are cooling

This sounds like slang. Go cool your cupcakes!

Kathy, that's great news! I'm so excited for you.

But 7 weeks' liquid diet? Unfun. Do you get to drink things like milk, or does it have to be clear liquids?

It's all high protein SlimFast or Myoplex lite. I can have raw veggies as well, so that's something. (I might fudge that a bit by clearing out my frozen veggies, though.)

Today was a co-workers' last day before maternity leave. Our boss is on vacation. Co-worker sent a status report on all her journals to everyone on the team. Why? Because no one has any idea who's going to be taking care of her work. Boss, who has apparently not even thought about it, will be back Monday, so this won't be addressed until at least Wednesday in our team meeting. She'll ask for volunteers, C. will point out wearily that everyone is already overworked and cannot possibly give sufficient attention to any more work, Boss will chastise us all for a lack of team spirit and then assign work randomly along with ridiculous deadlines.

Manager J. will throw you under the bus, M. will be driving the bus, B. will say, "What bus?", and my boss will declare the bus to be a helicopter. Big boss will tell you that you can find another bus if you don't like our bus, and Bigger boss will hold up everything for weeks obsessing over the color of the bus.

I flat refuse to work this weekend. I'm going back to bed.