OMG Sue! I don't even know what to say. I really want joy go get to Dublin. Qualified yay for free cab tide, but still.

I have heard of Ski Week, Kat, though never experienced it. I will have yo ask my sister if she had that when she was in high school, I don't remember it when I was subbing but I was working for a couple if districts so who knows if I would have noticed. I remember Zlincoln and Washington getting smoothed together into Presidents' Day when I was in Elementary school, but now I sm wondering if that I'd a real memory...

Yay $$, Lee!

I read Pope Joan, yeah, secret female pope. And some modern pope numbered the Zjohns to include her, I think? Some sort of acknowledgement.

Oh jeez, Sue! Maybe someday you'll go to Dublin....

Here there is February Vacation and April Vacation, but at least in my childhood circles, no one called it ski week. I just had to reply to someone on facebook who was rolling her eyes at the idea of cancelling one of them due to the snow days. I mean, I'm sure they'll have to make up the time in June if they take it all now, so where's the good in that?

And, sadly, you still have a better chance of being the next Pope, or any Pope, than I do.

So no chance of being Pope in my lifetime, but I do declare infallibility in all areas within my scope of influence, which is significantly miniscule, but trust me on this, infallible.

I'm pretty much immersed in the traditional medicine world, but I don't reject the woo woo. Mostly I endorse researching any and all options when dealing with health issues. There are few one size fits all solutions. There are plenty of examples of success with alternative healing. That said, I would likely opt for pharmaceuticals before leeches, just sayin.

I imagine reiki works for similar reasons as chicken soup - didn't someone prove that soup helps more if someone loving makes it for you? Just having someone pay that attention to you must help something.

Go Scrappy with the international job interviewing skillz!

I would much rather have chicken soup than reiki, given the choice.

NYC schools normally have the week after President's Day off (here we call it Midwinter Recess) but this year since schools were closed for a week after Superstorm Sandy, it's just Monday and Tuesday. Which is fine with me because having to explain to my boss why I need *two* weeks off this close to the end of the fiscal year...would not be fun.

My jacked up neck is getting better, but only as long as I don't tweak it. I just slept funny, which is so annoying.

If I could psychosoma myself into any migraine relief I don't really care. I'd take any placebo on the market if it worked.

I have had people get in my face and get really mean about acupncture: "You KNOW it's all bullshit, right? I mean, you know you paid someone to scam you???" And I was all, "MY MIGRAINES STOPPED. I don't care if it was a scam, it was an EFFECTIVE scam also FUCK YOU."

It could totally have been the placebo effect, but the headaches stopped. So I say booyah placebo.

(I am a little hyped up on sugar from paczki right now. GO GET SOME PAZCKI, PEOPLE! It was perhaps not the best thing to put in my totally empty, post-stomach virus belly, but I don't care. Everything is color-shifted. Those things have SO MUCH SUGAR. I think that soon I will be shooting laser beams out of my hands.)

Everything is color-shifted. Those things have SO MUCH SUGAR. I think that soon I will be shooting laser beams out of my hands.

That will be awesome.

The one I ate (okay, only *half* of one, because gluten; I cannot imagine how I would be feeling if I had eaten a whole one) had a filling the bakery described as "sweetened cheese," and I assumed it was like the cheese on a danish. But it was more like Bavarian cream. SO GOOD. It was transcendent.