meara, fingers crossed that you can see an ENT soon. Getting stuck in beaurocracy sucks.

Speaking of beaurocracy, i got a doctors excuse since i missed so much work due to the nasty virus that stole my voice (among other things). Today, my second week back at work, i get notice that i need a "fitness for duty certificate" "before returning to work." Ha. Ha. Hardy har har. I better get paid for the three days (2 days last week and 1 day this week) i worked before finding out that i needed written approval from a Dr in order to come back. Esp since one of those days worked was friggin xmas day, then the day after. I'm kinda counting on that 9.5 hrs of overtime. Sheesh.

erin, I hate your workplace.

Yay, Liese, and thanks for posting this because I was putting off onerous task number one, and seeing your post made me want to get it done.

Yes! This is the benefit of peer pressure. I am totally like a little kid in that I keep doing stuff today because I am thinking in my head "...and then I can tell the Buffistas that I did it!" I am for serious when I say that my life went way off the rails once people stopped giving me gold stars for doing stuff I was supposed to do already.

I am for serious when I say that my life went way off the rails once people stopped giving me gold stars for doing stuff I was supposed to do already.

I know you don't mean to be utterly adorable, but you are. I'd give you a gold star in person every day if I could - for being adorable!

Jesse - that's odd, when i adopted my younger cat from the county shelter he was already chipped and part of the adoption process was transferring the chip over to my name and address, i think the vet scanned him and confirmed all that on his first (shelter mandated) check up.

Oh yeah, I'm sure that happened at the first vet appt, but I have all new contact information since then, and am in fact hundreds of miles away from that location.

Onerosity #6: Desk clearing got a little derailed, as it does, but it is now complete! And! Now I have a clear desk to start back to work with. Although clearing involved a little creative stuffing of All The Things back into my in-tray.

Onerosity #7: Dining room table clearing: complete. Except I discovered the last bit of the antibiotics the SO failed to take. It makes me mad! He missed a day, I told him to finish anyway, but he didn't. And now he's sick again. YOU ARE WHY WE HAVE SUPERBUGS, SO! Harumph. Guess it's no use playing blame game.

Onerosity #8: Making lunch. Okay, so some of these are totally just normal household tasks that I should be doing every day, but since I'm coming back from being sick and doing squat, I'm counting it.

Onerosity #9: Reset Autofocus todo list. Done. And it's not so bad, actually.

What next? The big mundane tasks I have left are a) put away laundry, my chore nemesis, but I want to wait until it's all done so I can do it in one fell swoop, and b) haul firewood, which I am putting off because it's just such an onerous task. But it'll count as my cardio for the day, so yay?

I think next is email scary bigwigs.

I know you don't mean to be utterly adorable, but you are.

Ha. I am not adorable. I am a cranky oversized toddler who needs affirmation to achieve basic life tasks! But I am very gold star motivated.

An adorable cranky oversized toddler.

But I just realized that Pete is the True Adorable of the board, so I will have to come up with another adjective.

I am for serious when I say that my life went way off the rails once people stopped giving me gold stars for doing stuff I was supposed to do already.

My college students asked me to do this for them. I wish I were joking.

See now? Those college students aren't adorable. I'd have kicked them in the haids.

I am seriously appalled by what you, Vortex, Hil, Sparky, etc report as college student behavior (and their invasive, infantilizing parents!).

Today is my last day of vacation. I should probably do something other than hit refresh constantly on b.org.