Oh my god I am so glad authors can't call me. SO GLAD.

I don't put my phone number in my email signature, but the proof system puts our office number in the instructions the author gets. If they read the whole thing, they're rewarded with my number! Which rolls over to my cell since I'm never in the office. I turn the ringer off at night, but sometimes I'm still asleep at 7am.

Oh, no, Zen. Sounds like not answering is the best solution. Does your ringer turn itself back on?

I just vacuumed the kitchen to avoid dealing with an article back from the author, because they requested all kinds of complicated changes that aren't our style AND they gave me 2 more figures that weren't even cited in the first version of the article. Not cool, author. Not cool.

The ringer turns itself off from 9pm to 6am. I'm thinking of extending its quiet hours.

I'm avoiding work like the devil today. The software is crashing, my vendors are screwing up, and I want to go back to bed.

Excel is not cooperating with me (in that it won't do anything at all, apparently) and it's very frustrating. Most of what I do is fiddling with Excel.

I have a uti, the hinge on my computer busted again and ltc is very cranky. Please send all the tea.

Have they changed bakers for thin mints, or do I just remember them as more awesome? had no trouble eating two and stepping aside, in fact, "meh".

Ugh, does the clinic have any kind of waiting list, or method of referral to higher level or something.

It's at a children's hospital, but up until now, they've accepted adult patients. But they've been getting more patients lately, and one of the doctors left, and they can't handle everybody, so they said that they'll keep seeing adult patients that they were already seeing, but only kids for new patients. That's as of last week. I've been meaning to make an appointment with them for months, but needed to get my records from my old doctor first, and just hadn't gotten organized enough to do it.

Hil, can they refer you to someone else?