JZ, your awareness about what is going on is a damn fine thing - especially about how it makes you feel. I spent the first part of a decade at Emo Craxy Nonprofit trying to work out what the problem was exactly (yes, I'm dense that way), and the second part railing against it from a position where I could say something (sometimes). I hope the situation gets better for you, and I'm joining in heaping heaps of health~ma on your neighbor and her baby.

Yay Seska!

11 years ago today, Sparky and my sister joined forces to keep me from tossing into the Harbor a parent, a photographer, two mothers of good friends, my husband-to-be who'd forgotten the rent check was due that day, and a preacher who decided that the extended version of 'love is like a salad' is a great simile to surprise the happy couple with. We're going to go buy a bike/trailerbike with a Craigslist check to celebrate. and we haz babysitter. huzzah.

Happy Anniversary, Sox! It's our anniversary today too, though soon we'll have another one to celebrate. Can't believe we're getting married in five months. Meep.

Congrats, Seska and soon-to-be DW!

Many hugs to JZ. I'm sorry you're having such a hard time right now. Other people have said most of what I was going to say, so I'm just going to send comforting vibes.

ION, it is far too early to be on my way to the airport again, but that's where I am. I slept less than two hours last night. Better than nothing. I'm seeing it as a way to quickly adjust to east coast time. The timing is good since I'm back on a school schedule when we get back on the 16th.

ND and I don't catch up with each other until Wednesday (I have to get on the ship on its normal departure day Sunday, but ND is overlapping with this week's charter and so is meeting the ship in Jamaica), and I'm a bit bummed that we're spending our anniversary apart again. S'okay, though. We should have some time together later this week before he insanity of the second Nick charter starts on the 9th. I've brought schoolwork and my shiny new gym workout plan to occupy me until then.

Wow, I'm rambling. Sorry. Filters nsm with the working.

And since I didn't say it directly, Happy Annversary, Drew! Love you and miss you.

Many happy anniversaries abounding! Yay!

(((((JZ))))) I'm sorry that things have been so consistently bad at work. Try to remember that it is a good thing to have a child who recognizes that your sad and wants to make it better.

Happy anniversary, anniversary-having people!

I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell Lemsip. Ugh. Crappy end to an otherwise excellent week. Being sick is even less fun with a little boy; I'm very worried that he'll catch it too.

All hail the power of the breakfast burrito. I feel better already.

Sorry you're sick,bt.

Happy Anniversary, Sox!

I have to get up from this computer and do some chores... soon.

I sat down to do a personal inventory and realized that for the past TWO MONTHS, I have had to deal two to three times a week with beating down the queasy certainty that the only possible solutions are to either stand up and quit right now, or to stand up right now and run for the nearest bus north so I can jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.

This is where I'm at with work too. I got a talking to yesterday. I really hate my job, which I in fact shared with my director during our conversation.

You know what helps? Manhattans.

You know what helps? Manhattans.

Manhattans at work would help even more. Of course, they'd lead to another whole subset of work problems, but the gift with purchase of Manhattans is that you cease to care so much.

(It's probably a very bad idea to even joke about that--God knows I've got rampant Glaring Problems With Alcohol roving throughout one side of my family, but, yeah. Work is just THAT BAD.)

Ugh, I'm sorry, Nora. It's a hell of a way to go through your work week--it's just too damn much of your waking life to spend in that kind of misery.

Monday isn't even possible (all the relevant people are in clinic all day), but Tuesday, I swear. I'm going to sit down with Big Kind Boss and talk to him about all of it and submit for an excellent job in another subdivision of this division, far away from anyone here.