Thanks Jilli, Smonster and Amych.

Jilli - shout at the devil.

sj I hope you had a good Dr visit.

Anyone ever take it?

For a while, yeah. I can't take NSAIDs for long, though, because they aggravate another condition. They were good for pain, as I recall. Hope the further bloodwork isn't too stressful!

Thanks, javachik. It's definitely exciting to have that ahead of me! I'm just impatient to, you know, get to it. And I'm tired of my job, which is probably the biggest factor affecting my mood today.

~ma for Sox and Jilli and sj

YAY Beth!

CONGRATS TO SMONSTER! I, too, am in the "move across the country to many unknowns" club, and I'm happy to say I have never regretted it. One of the best decisions I've made in my life.

all this halloween costume talk makes me think of the movie _Mean Girls_ when all the HS girls use Halloween as an excuse to dress as tramps and the newbie transfer actually dresses up in a kinda awesome costume and feels like an idiot. Painfully true.

One of the things I love about working in my all-girls school is that the girls go NUTS for Halloween, and sexiness plays very little role in the costumes (which they tend to invent or create themselves). The girls that won the costume contest last year were Olympia and Manet. Olympia wore a "nude" body suit for the part, but it wasn't sexy (if that makes sense). They were awesome. The year before, a seventh grader as a giant Starbucks cup won.

Yay, smonster!

(I always work all my hours, but have been shifting to a later and later start time; I thought nobody minded, but apparently I was wrong),

My hours have shifted later, but never later than 9. Though I have to take a long lunch tomorrow for India paperwork.

Congrats smonster!

In other work news: The view from inside my cube [link] [link] [link] [link]

Congrats, smonster!

I've been getting in later myself, but I'm still beating most everyone else in, so it doesn't seem to get noticed.

I just gave some of my dad's money to support some lefty shit he'd hate like poison. And it was fucking great. The only thing better would be if the labor march and Grayson et al sent cards thanking him for the ducats. But it would kind of spoil my little head-game. Buy my affection, will you? (Evil laugh) ETA: No, worse, he should get on a list for sex toys and food co-ops.

CONGRATS TO SMONSTER! I, too, am in the "move across the country to many unknowns" club, and I'm happy to say I have never regretted it. One of the best decisions I've made in my life.

Yay smonster indeed!! And I third or fourth the "COBRA can be retroactive" plan. AND I'm also in the "Move across country all unknown and shit"--AND proof that even if that doesn't quite work out (like, um, if they lay you off four months later), it can still be an OK thing.

Heh, erika. Reminds me of that episode of Studio 60 where Matt keeps matching his bids to a Catholic women's fundraiser with equal donations to a polyamorous organization.

Yay! I totally thought I was just going to be out the $ I spent on airline tix when my parents generously allowed me to borrow their car for this trip. But luckily I called Southwest instead of trusting my pessimism and I can have the $ credited towards future air travel. Yay!