Thank you, msbelle! I'll check them out.

meara, that sucks. I complain mightily about Canada's lack of long weekends between Xmas and Easter, but MAY? Ridiculous.

We were out of Feliway (the cat pheromone) for about a week. Any doubts about it having an effect are gone because Oz was a massive asshole without it, and is much better only 3 days into having it again. However, it does not stop the cats from waking me up early.

Consuela, I need to find your lj.

smonster, i do have Susan's FB, and actually, she writes for the publisher I work for!!

But I have been a week off of FB, and I am scared I will interrupt my groove of work-til-I-die tonight if I go there.

Trust me, that was my first thought, she she specialized in Napoleonic, and I WILL be hitting her up soon for references. And silly me, I thought 3 shelves of reference books was enought for copyediting!

Back to work. Please send hot decaf apricot tea.

Sox, I'm cofax7 on both LJ and DW. I post linkspam, mostly: I don't have access during the workday, so I can't have long discussions anymore.

My new office gets MLK, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Tgivng (and the Friday after) and Christmas. That's it. Coming from the land of the Fed (ah, Columbus Day), it gonna suck.

I get those days plus usually a couple of days before Christmas and after Christmas until January 2nd (depending on what day of the week New Year's falls.)

I get a decent amount of the standard days, but my last two jobs (even more hardcore financial--bank compliant, which is a little more generous, apparently, than trading floor compliant, and university) were pretty damned golden.

God forbid I should ever go back to the small-company-jumping-through-hoops whose idea of observing holidays was not paying us on days where the banks were closed, although we were open.

However, I do now have to intermittently work weekends. Although, with luck, I have three (Sunday 12AM) deployments this month, and I'll only be working for one of them! Living the dream!

Met the cousin I don't like to give her the cake. My mother: "Did she bite you?" No, there was no biting. But she is also not my new best friend. My poor mother. She didn't do anything to deserve the bitch(es) she got as kids.

Caremark CVS blows. It's awful. My BC (yes. I know. lesbian on BC) is godawful expensive. And Grace's copay for her breathing treatment is $90, and that's not for the full amount prescribed, but for 2/3rd of it -- a 2 month supply for 3 months because they said so. It's nuts.

BUT the actual pharmacist and tech at my local CVS is AMAZING and helpful and since I'm there all the damned time they fill my scripts in like 2 minutes.

Noah's preschool learned about MLK, Jr, whom he called Mooffer. And the way he told it "Moofer changed lies." What? Oh, you mean laws? Yes.

Sorry to spam, but:

Thanks to all of you who have helped me redeem gift cards for Donors Choose. DC has decided that a teacher can only have 50 gift cards redeemed IN TOTAL and not for each project as we were told.

K has been working her butt off getting the projects at her school-funded, but she can't have any more gift cards donated to her own individual projects, so even though we have another $15,000 in cards, none of them can be used on her projects and she is worried she will lose the matching funds in February.

Can you help fund her project, especially the eligible for the match? Her Donors Choose Page is here: [link] I know I ask all the time for me, but this would make her day to get this funded. Even if you give a $1 it will help because she will move up to the front and be more likely to be funded.