Erin, here's one that might work (though I don't know how long your hair is): [link]

Once I was flying to Houston for work and I was watching Buffy episodes on my laptop. The flight got to Houston early, which annoyed me as I was unable to finish the episode I was watching.

I can't read in a car or in a CTA train. I can read on a Metra or Amtrak train, and on a plane if there's no turbulence.

I can read pretty much anywhere. Driving long distances is about the only time I can listen to audiobooks; it's really hard to have the right level of attention for it otherwise (I need to keep my eyes occupied with something, but if I get to absorbed in the other thing I will suddenly realize I haven't heard the last half a chapter or so). Riding in a car or train or plane will also work if there is scenery or something, or if I don't mind falling asleep mid word.

Huh. We just got a "so-and-so is no longer with the company" email, and it's someone I thought was retiring, but that's not how they usually announce that. So curious now.

"you didn't flinch and nearly knock a scalpel in your eye."

I think doctors under-estimate how much not knocking a scalpel into your eye is inspiring on the not-moving front.

In bittersweet news, I was going through a portion of Hubby's desk and found a stash of $140. He liked squirrelling away money. Being a properly raised child of Puritans, only the $40 is going to be splurged today, but the $100 will be tucked in my own stash. My Vegas stash, because I'm not that properly raised.

We just got a "so-and-so is no longer with the company" email

The president of my company has left so he "can spend more time with his family." Given who he is and the level of work he's put in, I think this is actually pretty on point, but I think someone in PR has realized how that sounds, and there was a long follow-up about the hours he's put in, the travel he's done, and how young his kids are (he's younger than me). Fortunately, his replacements in the re-org are from in-house and understand how we do things.

Minor surgery accomplished. Surgeon complimented me on how brave I was, which I think means, "you didn't flinch and nearly knock a scalpel in your eye." Having numb eyes feels weird.

Yikes! Taking the rest of the day sounds like a good call.

This Evil Bunny ALliance tea is giving me life tday. Thank you, Jilli and Clovis!

But it's making me consume a lot more cream than usual.

Man I am so wound up and things have fallen through cracks at work and are now coming to light. I wrote down to dos to try and not miss things today. List is 20 items most with multiple parts and steps within. And that is not including the base line things of work. I've completed 3 and parts of others. Never going to complete, is impossible. I need to triage and decide what is the least onerous to take home.

It's what the farmer called it, I figure he would know.

Oh yeah. Espcially since there are all kinds of things that grow in one region but not another, not to mention the things that called one thing in one region but something else in another.