Okay. I'm home. I had to get admitted to get precisely what my pain and migraine doctors recommend, and that will cost me a considerable extra amount of money THROUGH NO FAULT OF MY OWN. To get the medication I would have asked for earlier, but I just wanted to believe they'd do the right thing.

I know, I know...but the past month or so--they've been great! And the observation admitting doctors were fine too.

God, it's not complicated. But I clearly can't take things for granted. The nurse in observation was Haitian, and she didn't know there was a Haitian nurse in the ER. And she has the loveliest name...Brissonne. She was very nice, and she reassured me that asking the nurses before they give me anything how much they're giving me isn't pushy or drugseeking red flag or anything. I needed to hear that from a nurse.

My mother is begging me not to wear menswear to the wedding. Poor thing. I told her that if she doesn't go, she doesn't get a call.

The time that my husband spent on our townhouse's board can be likened to hell.

I remember that horror show and I didn't even witness it in person.

I just dropped Tom off at the airport.

Sad now

I had a pretty good weekend. Went to the wedding of someone I've know pretty much my whole life. It was a beautiful wedding -- held at a sculpture garden. It was Jewish/Pagan, with no officiant, so all of us stood up to ask the "Do you take this man...?" parts, and the bride and groom answered "I do" to all of us. Most of the usual Jewish wedding traditions, plus some Pagan stuff. As we walked in, we were each given a flower and told to wear it somehow (I clipped mine into my hair with a clip I was already wearing; most of the men put them into their lapels, and there was someone who helped people make them into rings and stuff), and then, during the ceremony, the groom's mother told us to focus our energy on good thoughts and wishes into the flowers, and they collected them in a basket as we left the ceremony, and they're going to release them into the ocean.

That sounds like a great wedding! I saw the picture of you and your family on facebook and you looked adorable!

I need some motivation STAT!!! I have so much to do at work,m but none of it has a really urgent deadline, and I cannot figure out what to do first. It has been like this all summer, so I really need to get a move on.

First day of first grade for Matilda!

She wanted her hair in a bundle and had picked out her outfit well in advance.

And, because it's August in San Francisco she had to wear her heaviest, warmest coat to school.

But we ran into her best friend, Sena, on the way. We're super excited that Sena is in her class this year, as well as her friends Norah, Isabella, Sophie and Alizon.

And the teacher is really warm and nice, which is a good fit for Matilda.

Sophia, I have so been there. I've found it helpful to outsource my decision-making.

Yay for First-Grade!Matilda.

eta: Anybody have a good deviled egg recipe? I have to make a side dish today to take to the class picnic tomorrow.

Sophia, just pick on task and plow through. Then at least on is done.

Me? I am feeling scattered, so I am sharing my to do list with y'all in the hopes that it clarifies things for me:

- double check that reports for today's staff mtg were emailed to group, if not, do it
- print out 2 reports each for mtg
- check that action matrix was done and emailed, if not do it
- print out 6 copies of action matrix
- agenda for meeting
- agendas for trips this week
- check travel for 6 bosses, lookig 2 weeks out, clean up anything missing
- make travel packets.

Read the increasingly desperate tweets of Martian rock N165 as it is zapped by Curiosity

Poor little N165. It never really had a chance. As soon as the Curiosity rover warmed up its rock-vaporizing laser, it was certain to be used as target practice. But thanks to the miracle of social media, that Martian rock has a voice, and it's not happy.

Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) can deliver more than a million watts of power to a Martian rock, vaporizing the rock's surface. The ChemCam can then analyze the vaporized bits of rock. In order to calibrate the laser, NASA selected a perfectly ordinary rock, N165, as Curiosity's first victim...I mean, test sample.

How does N165 feel about this? Well, the rock now has its own Twitter account, and yesterday it started tweeting:

More at the link.

Poor little rock.

First day of first grade for Matilda!

Woo hoo!

Anybody have a good deviled egg recipe? I have to make a side dish today to take to the class picnic tomorrow.

I mostly like the classic (mayo, mustard, relish w/ paprika on top), but made some really good ones recently with a lot of lemon juice and capers and a little mayo.