Suzi, that's really good improvement, yes! I hope he feels the tide has turned!

I was SURE this was a Friday. I'm unemployed anyway, so it being one more day to the weekend is not so important, but it's strange to have planned the day out on the assumption of what day it is and find I've missed a step on the staircase.

I am grateful the sun is shining and I am no longer on the verge of tears. So that's good! Onward and upward!

I hope other people have ridiculous good-luck charm kinds of things, because I had my coffee this morning in the joke "Employee of the Year" mug an old employee gave me once. (It was a set from The Office.) I like to use it before big and/or tough days at work!

That's a good one.

Hey grammar people, in "newly elected government," I don't need a hyphen, right?

No, you don't, Jesse. And good luck!

Right.

Thanks!

Good luck, Jesse, may the day bring more light and happy than you are expecting.

I do that sort of thing too, turning everyday items into totemic objects that can help me through a tough day. The right coffee cup is key, and I wear something made by my daughter. I even carefully select for certain underwear on those days. Because I am a dork, apparently.

Underwear is excellent for that purpose, because you know it's there but no one else does.

I used to put on red lipstick and combat boots to go work in the library when I was having a hard time motivating myself in college.