Oddly, emailing my doctor's office gets a pretty quick response (sometimes within an hour or 2), because my doctor stays on top of his email. This means I completely bypass the awful front-desk staff, which is a big win.

ION, I had a filling replaced this morning, which is fine, but I'm starving and waiting for my mouth to not be numb so I can eat some dang lunch. t stomach rumble

Our PCP is good with the electronic system. My neurologist, who's in the same giant healthcare conglomerate, does not use the system. So the call that I made Thursday or Friday to leave a voicemail asking them to get a prior authorization for my migraine drug apparently went into the wind, as today I called back, left a voicemail, got a call directing me to someone else, left a voicemail, and got a call back saying that she could start on that, and how much medication did I have left.

Well, about four days less than when I left the first voicemail.

I'm pretty happy with my large healthcare office -- you basically always get a person, or at least a timely callback, in my (limited) experience.

I just found the email I sent at this time last year asking to take off Friday, and I'm going to do it again! I can't take this week. I'm so bored! Not that there's not stuff I could be doing, but it just feels like what's the point? And a four-day weekend sounds nice.

Friday is my regularly scheduled 9/80 day off, so that's nice. Yay 4 day weekend!

Getting through the remaining 3 days pf this week is still a challenge, though.

ETA and I still need to call my dr office. Better do that now...

And reached a person who is going out of her way to get me an appointment before October. I actually wouldn't mind waiting until October, but I might need a refill before then. Should count my pills and see.

Didn't Australia once have a prime minister get eaten by a shark? I vaguely remember hearing that years ago ... or he went in swimming and didn't come out?

We did! That was Harold Holt, a Liberal Party PM from the '60s. He was a keen ocean swimmer, headed out one day in rough conditions and disappeared without trace. One conspiracy theory opines that he was picked up by a submarine and defected to China.

Anyway, given that he was believed to have drowned at sea, naturally he is commemorated in his home city of Melbourne by the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.

Timelies all!

Hot here. Nothing like getting into your car(which has been parked on the top level of the parking garage all day) and seeing the temperature is 104 F. Not that I want winter. (Fall will do just fine)

Ugh, Sheryl. I have the hardest time trying to convince ltc to get into her carset when we first get in the car in the summer.

I feel like Dana on a terrible conference call, 12 hours off. In this case, it's an activist thing, and they just unmuted everyone, and all we can hear is a dog barking and also a Barack Obama speech?? I wish people would figure out how to mute their own phones!

I looked around the local MeetUp website, and it's depressing how this organized socializing thing isn't set up for people who work till 6 PM. Fun activity at 3:30 PM Wednesday! Regular meeting Tuesday at 5--and 40 minutes away from work, and I almost never get out the door on the dot of 6. I will not be That Person who shows up halfway through the event and has to have everything recapped for them. Feh.