Novocaine wore off half way through dancing tonight. And now it is painfully obvious that my temporary crown fits like crap. I have already left a message at the dentist's that I need to get in there Friday either for the permanent crown or to fix the temp. I really don't care which.

Driving home from dancing, I had a great idea to solve a work problem posed to me by my new PM. I had told him it would take me a while to come up with a workable solution and once I came home tonight, it took me 30 minutes to try out my idea. And it works!!! Yes, I was working after midnight. Silly me. But that is a problem solved!!!

I should be tired and sleepy and not here babbling to myself. And yet I'm just not there yet. Sad.

It's hereditary

Can we tell your mother that? Because I could help...

Meara, I'm sorry about your friend. I hope they caught it early and that treatment goes well.

A friend of mine, vegan for the past 20 years and a competitive runner for her age group, was diagnosed with diabetes a while back. She comforts herself that not only does she have less trouble than many newly diagnosed with it about making changes to diet and "lifestyle" but that perhaps she'd have come down with it many years earlier if not for all the "correct things" she was already habitually doing.

When I start to reflexively "blame" the afflicted for bad choices I try to remember her.

Is that where they get their whole "abortion causes cancer" thing? Oy.

I'm pretty sure that one's just a lie. (IIRC, the myth predates the research.)

Fuck cancer.

I thought Obama's speech last night was fantastic. I'm always kind of cynical about his public speaking (it can't POSSIBLY be as good as they say it is!), and he almost always proves me wrong.

Owen was born in the perfect age of media technology. He is currently watching The Knockout (1914) with Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin.

If behavior and lifestyle were true fact causes for disease and health issues, I would have more than just high cholesterol and shitty muscles, I'll tell you what.

ION, FRIDAY!

I love to share an earworm....

I want to be where the people are

I don't know that song!!!! I am really glad, because I am an earworm magnet. Although, that line somehow got the Cheers themsong in my head.

You know what is the worst? Going to work and being unsure or not whether there is a cat pee small on your clothes. And I have to work for another 11 hours!

get some hand sanitizer and smear it all over your clothes, that should cover anything up.

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I was pretty unproductive yesterday and I really need to rally today. not off to a great start.