I voted at 7:30 this morning and one of the new scanner machines was already broken. Bring back the ker-THUNK levers!!

Yeesh. Apparently a guy walking his dog found a decapitated body on the grounds of a middle school in Evanston.

I don't think we have any primaries going on. I hope not, as I know nothing about any races.

We have an appt with what I hope will be our new psychiatrist today.

I barely did any work yesterday, so I need to get busy, I guess.

So on my bike ride to work there were all these police when I got to Main St. in Evanston. They had a bunch of streets blocked off and helicopters were hovering above. I had to ride several blocks out of my way to get to work. Then I found out what the deal was:

Decapitated body found near Evanston school

Yikes!

Sorta' decapitated body x-posty-ish....

"I thought my dog was chasing a rabbit, but when I got close it was a body without a head," he said. "There was a weird smell in the air. I wasn't expecting what I saw."

Nobody expects a body without a head.

OK, that puts things in perspective. I stayed up too late last night and don't feel like working at all, but at least I haven't found a decapitated body!

Last night I started making these plans that seemed brilliant to get away and see a friend I haven't seen in years, and today they look entirely impractical. Am sad.

Mustn't try and think while on meds.

Yeah, I got to work and was feeling very sorry for myself (for one thing, I am often BOTH the first one here and the last to leave, what the fuck, do I work with Tino suddenly?) And then my coworker came in and said she'd just seen a student on a bike get hit by a car at the corner (that our office overlooks), so we looked out and saw the poor guy and the poor woman who hit him and while I didn't feel less sorry for myself, I did feel rather ashamed of feeling sorry for myself.

The decapitation thing is just weird:

Police explode pipe bomb near decapitated body

A man walking his dog this morning near an Evanston middle school discovered a decapitated body, perhaps the result of a pipe bomb explosion, and some hours later police exploded a pipe bomb found in the vicinity.

Police pushed the media back from the area after discovering what appeared to be an explosive device near the body, WGN-Ch. 9 reported about 8:40 a.m. Some residents were being evacuated from their homes. The Cook County sheriff's bomb squad was on the scene.

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On returning home, he said neighbors told him they had heard a loud explosion between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. He said police told him they had come out earlier to investigate the sound of the explosion but were unable to find anything at that time.

So the guy was planting a pipe bomb and accidentally blew off his head? Or on purpose? Weird.

So sorry about your aunt sarameg