Man, now I want jambalaya and mufaletta and king cake and polish doughnuts!

Instead I am frantically rearranging my whole week for the SECOND TIME, because someone in the corporate office is SMOKING CRACK. And it means I have a friend who is coming in Thursday night, and I'm going to be all "Sorry! I gotta go, flight at 6:45AM tomorrow! Won't be home til after time to have any fun Friday night!" ARGH.

(ETA: Plus I'm on hold trying to get the travel agency and I hate being on hold)

Elizabeth Carey Smith of The Letter Office charted her progress in the subway while pregnant and presented the results in graphic form.

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Thanks Tommy and msbelle. The reason I am afraid that it might be the BBs is that I woke up both last thursday and yesterday with itchy spots on my back, and those are the two days I woke up too hot and took my night shirt off. Yesterday's also look like they might be BB bites.

I pulled my bed apart yesterday though, and didn't see anything, so I think I am just going to wash all my sheets in super hot water and hope for the best, unless I get more bites.

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Perkins is there a time today I can call or IM with you about the bugs

IM tonight would be great, if you will still be up about 7:30 my time or later

Performance reviews are onerous enough to count for the whole day. I declare you all fabulous!!

t waves hello to all the Seattle folks from Seatac

I still have the plague, but I made it to work early for a meeting. I'll be digging into work tasks steadily until my next meeting where someone gets to shadow me on the job. If I'm still upright at 5:30, I'll go to the gym.

I've been to the doctor recently, already made a dentist appointment, and filed my taxes weeks ago. Other than some 401(k) paperwork I need to do at some point, I think I might be caught up on onerousness.

One semi-onerous call down.

Right on, Ginger.

Yeah, flea that last week before school starts is always a dead zone for summer camps. Twas always thus.

Onerosity #1 done: exercise. I ran all the steps at Kezar (772) after dropping off Matilda. I need to do that every day. Maybe twice. I'll try to do it again this afternoon. I'm so freaking out of shape.

Onerosity #2 yet to do: Dishes

Onerosity #3 yet to do: long, tiresome phone call through a phone tree to cancel something. Feh.

Onerosity #4 yet to do: Job applications.

On the plus side, one of the earlier onerosities has borne fruit. The espresso machine I dropped off several weeks ago (and was under warranty) is now fixed.

Drip coffee's all fine and dandy but we missed (in Matilda's words) "the fluffy milk."

I've been to the doctor recently, already made a dentist appointment, and filed my taxes weeks ago. Other than some 401(k) paperwork I need to do at some point, I think I might be caught up on onerousness.

Dentists, doctors and taxes? Oh yeah, you're good. Throw in a trip to the DMV and you're good for a year.

Huh. From IO9:

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Michael Chabon’s new HBO series: Magicians Vs. Hitler

Meredith Woerner

When he's not working Disney's John Carter of Mars script or penning Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, apparently Michael Chabon is pitching alternate-history series to HBO about the magicians that fought Hitler. Which sounds fantastic.

According to Variety HBO has picked up Chabon's new TV show called Hobgoblin, which is about "a motley group of conmen and magicians who use their skills at deception to battle Hitler and his forces during WWII."

Fingers crossed this includes Jasper Maskelyne and his "magic gang," who used their skills of illusion to confuse and befuddle German troops.

I did an onerous task last night that turned out to be fun - I replaced the broken screen in my friend's MacBook with a new one.

Apparently Apple would have charged around $800 to do the repair. Instead she paid $120 for the new LCD screen.