So a friend is taking me out to a place that serves NOLA style food and pastries. I know nothing about NOLA food - what should I try?

Is there a menu online? NOLA style food can mean a bunch of things. Pastries really ought to include beignets, which are delicious.

Can't find one in English (there's a FB picture of the menu in English, but it's a distant one and one can hardly read it).

However, this article [link] mentions a lot of what they have on their menu.

Last day. I think I'll be full of Ativan all day.

Also, we are having a damn heat emergency, and my car with no a/c is unbearable. I thought I was going to pass out by the time I got home yesterday. So today should be fantastic.

Oh, Steph. Gallons of ~ma to you.

Lots of ~ma and love all around.

Ugh, Steph. Fucking Mercury in retrograde (hey, I don't really believe it, but it's more fun to have something to blame).

Shir, definitely have a biscuit. With butter on it. It's hard to tell from the article exactly what New Orleans-style food they are serving there.

Debating whether to go in to work or not. Finally got to sleep around three am. The pain is better but I'm feeling... antsy. On the edge of a panic attack. Not sure if it's left over from the Flexeril or what. Can't so much afford to stay home, don't want to reinjure myself at work or have a full-blown attack there.

smonster, can you go in but leave if you need to? Or is leaving hard, given the nature of your work?

Thanks for the tip, smonster. And I'm sorry you're not feeling well, but I don't have any advice.

I wish you had a better healthcare system (and a universal one), American buffistas. I really do.

I've just decided to stay home. That will get me to the weekend to have more time to recover. If I can borrow a roommate's computer, I can maybe do some admin work.

Okay. I booked a rental car for tomorrow, so I can take my car in to get the a/c fixed. The mechanic thinks they should be able to fix it in one day, assuming there isn't something horrifically wrong. (I wouldn't ordinarily rent a car -- I would just sit around the house all day, which I have no problem with -- but I already had 2 appointments scheduled for tomorrow, and I guess I could have re-scheduled them, but trying to juggle too many things right now is not humanly possible for me. And yes, re-scheduling things at the last minute is, at this point, too damn stressful for me.)

All digits are crossed that the a/c can get fixed in one day (and not horribly expensively would be such a damn bonus).

Now I need to clean out/pack up my desk. I've waited until today to do it, because I just needed things to look as normal as possible all week.