If her first two plans fail, we will move on to fancy dancy prancy romancy Nancy Ann C. Yancy's Plan C.

Because "No, wait, this time it'll work!" is just what you want to hear from someone dancing around in a horse costume.

Is it possible for your uterus to fall out because of cramps? I rather stupidly forgot to bring my advil home with me last night and was fine until about 2:30 am. I got on the first bus I could and got to work about an hour ago, took advil, and lay on the floor. I was hoping to sleep before work, but no luck, because the cramps are still pretty bad. I am usually fine as long as I keep taking advil every four hours and don't allow them to break through, but now that it has happened. Grr.

I did remember that we have this new shower in the handicapped bathroom, so I just spent 20 minutes with hot water on my back and that was nice. Unfortunately a) I can't bring my computer in there and b) I had to maek do with paper towels. But the shower was lovely-- it had a seat and a hand held shower thingie. It seemed a little like the "private" showers we had for girls in middle school to shower in when they had their periods. Of course I never went in them because the popular girls just showered there and we showered in the open room, period or not.

Ok- advil finally kicking in! I will try to be more coherent than above.

I'm on a chat right now with Citibank and this woman is not filling me with confidence that she knows anything at all about banking.

First she tells me I haven't been charged any monthly fees (wrong), now she's telling me that the savings account I've had for 12 years isn't linked to the checking account I opened on the same day.

I think I'm going to change banks. This is bullshit.

Ok, after 20 minutes of going through the customer service script, I have FINALLY converted this account back to the no-fee kind I used to have. (For some reason - ok, for a really obvious reason - when Citibank rejiggered their account types, I went from a no-fee account to a fee-unless-you-have-$15,000-all-the-time account.)

It's just ...odd to wake up to a piece on someone who you knew growing up: [link] They made the first 3.5 cast mirror for my dad's observatory in 1988. I made LOT of trips to his mirror lab.

I can't believe I have a 7AM meeting today. Solid through 9:30, to boot.

Don't want this reality.

aurelia, I love you. My family used to do word games like that on every summer car trip ever; reading about Nancy Yancey just gave me such a visceral wave of... not just nostalgia, but SUMMER, and the car bouncing over crummy road and the dog sticking her nose in the air vent and Lake Tahoe off in the distance. It was like deeply concentrated 99% pure distilled essence of summer in one quick moment. I seriously think I'm going to be summer-giddy all day. Thank you for that, so much!

That's really awesome, sarameg. That guy sounds amazing. Crazy, but amazing. That's the kind of science I wish we were really putting our dollars behind.

Did you guys see these morning-after texts between Superman and Wonder Woman? [link] Hilarious.