And chocolate. Chocolate helps keep you warm (if you can stomach anything sweet after the gross glucose).

Teppy should give you her Godiva!

...No?

Heh, thanks, y'all. The office has warmed up considerably since I got here at 9:30, thank god. It's actually a beautiful day in Nashville -- 62 degrees at the moment -- so it's not bad right now, but the first hour or so I was here was pretty unpleasant.

And chocolate. Chocolate helps keep you warm (if you can stomach anything sweet after the gross glucose).

Normally I would be all over this, but I really don't feel like eating anything else sweet today! I thought I'd get some tea after the appointment, to wake myself up, but I'm not a fan of unsweetened black tea, and I really didn't want anything even the least bit sweet, so no tea for me.

I had as a federal employee, sigh. I had like 3 weeks of accrued sick leave when I left the government, and since I won't be re-hired within a year, it's just gone. Damn it.

Oh how I feel your pain. I had 600 hours plus of sick leave. Would that I had gotten a payout for that!

Would that I had gotten a payout for that!

Argh! Really. 600 hours! My heart bleeds.

Teppy should give you her Godiva!

...No?

If only I were closer (and she wanted it), I would give up at least a couple of pieces.

I am back, surprised at how much chocolate I got for $20 (the large chocolate bars were 4/$10, so that helped). I also found one bra (not at Godiva; at Dillard's) that I bought so I can test it out. Er, not really to wear all day or anything, because I would feel guilty returning a bra that I sweated all over. But I just want to take it home and try it under different shirts and get Tim's opinion, since I just squint at the fat beneath my armpits and then readjust my boobs and wonder how it's all really supposed to look (fat included).

It seems like a good bra -- super comfortable, so that right there means it's most likely a keeper -- but I need the opinion of someone who's seen me in many bras before.

Oh how I feel your pain. I had 600 hours plus of sick leave. Would that I had gotten a payout for that!

Oh ouch. That's where you try to negotiate (well, NSM in Consuela's case) a bonus from the new company to make up for your pain! :)

I just got back from paying my rent, where I found out that another tenant has lodged a complaint against Princess across the hall from me. (Apparently there was a disturbance at 5 a.m. one of the last few days, which I mercifully slept through.) When you're getting noise complaints from college boys, you know you're being inconsiderate of your neighbors!

That's two of her three strikes in two weeks, so I suspect we'll have a new neighbor by this time next month.

I wonder if antibodies from having whooping cough wear off. Must Google....

I grew up in the dark ages and got my antibodies the old-fashioned way. It's hard to imagine someone who has had those diseases deciding to not vaccinate, because they were No Fun. I had a fever so high with measles that I was hallucinating, and I had it for days, because I wouldn't break out. I had to wear gloves to keep from scratching the chicken pox rash and spent the time covered with calamine lotion, giving me a rather spectral air.

I have got to do something with the rainbow chard in my refrigerator. It came in a giant bundle that wouldn't fit in the crisper, so it's covering a whole shelf and hanging off the edge. When I open the refrigerator, I hear a voice saying, "Feed me."

I had pertussis a few years ago, and I'm nearly certain that I caught it from the middle school kids at the summer program where I was working.