I'm sorry about StW not panning out and your brother's love woes, smonster. I hope you can get a good night's sleep tonight.

While I can't add much substantive to the makeup conversation, I was in a Sephora for the first time last week (picking up a nail buffer). It was less perfumy than I expected, but I had no idea what a third of the stuff was.

Jilli, check your inbox in about five minutes and you'll have that cover of "Common People" by MCR.

How is it that five years in a very good work environment cannot overcome the damage from five years spent in a toxic work environment?

I'm still a little shaky from discovering an oversight in my work--basically, something slipped through the cracks thanks to a miscommunication back in early October. It came to light today, and... I kind of freaked. I went about putting things to rights, and the people affected were all "eh, no big deal," but I was still bracing myself to get yelled at. Or called on the carpet and lectured for longer than it would take to have fixed the problem.

What the hell, brain? Why can't you figure out that you are now working in the land of the sane, and not That Other Place?

So yeah, in a shaky mood thanks to something that's fairly little. That--and the fact that I've felt kind of disconnected from everyone and everything for the past few monhts--has me worried that I'm about to be bushwhacked by something big from my subconscious. I've been feeling hella needy, but i have no idea what to do about it.

Whoo! Thank you, David!

Whoo! Thank you, David!

I threw in Placebo's cover of "Running Up That Hill" as a bonus.

Should be there by now.

Jilli, check your inbox in about five minutes and you'll have that cover of "Common People" by MCR.

I want *that* Jilli, can you play the caring is sharing game?

Now I'm coughing and wheezing at the same time. I made an appointment with a doctor for tomorrow. (My regular doctor didn't have any available appointments, so I made an appointment with a different doctor at the same practice.)

I had no idea what a third of the stuff was

You're doing pretty well. I'd say the saleswoman earned her commission on me, except apparently they don't work on commission. I tried on maybe 20 lipsticks to buy 5? Probably more. Polgara was very patient.

Anne, I realised when I got this boss that I'd had quite the run of bad bosses. Maybe one honest to goodness good boss in almost 20 years of employment (although one was bad in my favour). It was a really weird sensation to have it stop, and in fact, I had nightmares about it not really being true. So I totally get where you're coming from. It's total conditioning, and it's going to take the world not ending a couple times before the new real is really real.

Thank you, ita ! I just wish it wasn't taking so long to undo the conditioning. There are still times when I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, and that I'll be hauled into a conference room and told what a crappy job I'm doing.

Jilli, can you play the caring is sharing game?

Why yes, yes I can play that game!