AND my headache went away after I had lunch. I am thinking it was probably more due to the diet pepsi than the pizza, but who knows.

It had to happen eventually: online order so completely wrong it is comical. Wrong product, wrong # of items, random address label not mine stuck to the inside of one box. Of course, something I was waiting on because I've not been able to find it reliably locally. Sigh.

Crazy, sarameg.

So it turns out that I no longer have the stamina to remain a decent human being past the dinner hour. I am now hiding from the rest of my family. I have so much work left to do before I go to bed tonight. Shit!

Amazon publishes fetish porn?

I will only say that I hear the phrase "dinosaur erotica" in meetings way more often in my current job than I ever did at the Beeb.

I would be very surprised to hear "dinosaur erotica" in a meeting. I just don't see cookware moving in that direction.

I'm sorry you feel the need to hide, Burrell, but I want to acknowledge that sometimes it's the right choice.

If we do come out with, say, an erotic dinosaur cake decorating kit, I will never stop laughing.

Thanks to Lip Sync battle, I am pretty sure I am going to be thinking "I'm Rick James, Bitch" for the next couple of days.

Kids went to bed just fine, so phew! And that friend I am working with had a way worse day than I did so we aren't grant writing tomorrow, which means I can devote the day to syllabus writing instead. So much less stressed now.

Parenting anxiety question: So my daughter got tracked into the regular math track, not the accelerated math. I strongly suspect this is where she belongs right now as last year math was such a flail. Like she had 6 simple problems for homework today and got all 6 wrong on her first go. I made her erase and go back and review the explanations first, then reread the problems and redo them. I keep telling myself it'll be fine, and that common core math is aimed to get everyone through the college pre-reqs. But the school district makes a big deal about dual tracking for math and she seems to have just slipped off the higher track. Not sure what to do.

So my daughter got tracked into the regular math track, not the accelerated math. I strongly suspect this is where she belongs right now as last year math was such a flail.

Well, I've had to deal with this from both Emmett and Matilda. I will note that we got Emmett a math tutor in Middle School and it did help him increase his test scores.

Unfortunately, that made him just barely place into accelerated math in HS which he promptly got a D in, and had to retake. So in my experience if you have any question about whether they should be in accelerated math, then they should probably be on the regular track.

My hard-won experience is that Accelerated Math is for people who excel at it, love it and are into it. Not for smart kids who can kind of get it with much tutelage. That was a recipe for failure for us.

I can't find the mouse for my desktop computer. Either it wasn't in the box with everything else for the computer, or I threw it out on accident because I'm at war with all this damn packing paper.

I think wine is the correct next step.