Woke up at 2 coughing. Kept coughing. Started falling asleep again at 6, when the alarm went off. Called it a day.

Good news is that it seems that the coughing fit was the last hurrah of my vacation cold. But I'm taking the day off. Maybe I'll get shit done. After I nap a bit.

Anybody here tried kratom? (Traditional Thai medicine similar to caffeine in effect).

I've never heard of it!

Hey Amy-- Did you see this video? (Wait for it in the middle) [link]

No! THANK YOU! Cutieheads.

I want today off, you don't even understand. All I want to do is cry, thinking of today, thinking of working Sunday morning.

I want to cry because I ate a handful of popcorn a co-worker offered me yesterday, because I rolled over on my right side in my sleep, because my migraine doctor doesn't want to medicate my cervical facet pain.

I am exhausted, so much hurts, and I can't even do a full load of laundry yet (I can manage a half load at a time).

If this position doesn't work out and I have to go back to a job where Sunday mornings are a regular periodic expectation...I don't know.

feel better vibes beaming your way, ita.

People who know Texas and Louisiana--I am trying to figure out what to go see on my drive from Galveston to New Orleans. Any suggestions?

You could stop off in Houma and see the depressed backwoods bayou setting of the Swamp Thing comics!

Yeah, OK, I don't know much about points of interest in that part of the South before you hit New Orleans, and the locals can steer you far better once you arrive there. Baton Rouge probably has a number of attractions that could be interesting, though their events calendar doesn't have that much going on during the week before the 13th.

Oh, ita. I'm sorry. I don't know what cervical facet pain is, but it doesn't sound good.

I do hope you get overtime for the Sunday stuff.

Congrats to CFerg on the new arrival: [link]

For a minute, I was like, Craig Ferguson's wife had another baby?!

So sweet. Baby!