You can do it, Allyson!

I would like to take a half-day of vacation to play with the Giant Box Of Nailpolish currently sitting in my office, but no. I won't.

I totally choked, yesterday. I accomplished a handful of sentences. They may have been in pig latin.

Kat, what is your Donors Choose currently? (Was it you reading Stiff? Mom brought her library copy for me to read while she was here for last week. I thanked her for braving the $1 fine and I finished it last night just about her bedtime. Perfect.)

I have a bunch of stuff I SHOULD be working on

I got up at six, got mom to the airport, braved traffic back home, stripped the futon / guest bed and made it back into a futon for my office, grabbed the guest towels, stripped my bed, laundered everything, remade my bed, vacuumed absolutely everything again, cleaned random things (my tv will not fit on the fireplace-going-around-it-thing-whose-actual-name-I've-forgotten so now I know that isn't a rearrange opportunity but the wall is clean and the framed print is clean and the lights above it make a lot more sense in their directionality), actually organized the chest that contains guest linens and towels.

If today ends at noon, I am golden. If not, I am exhausted and overwhelmed.

the fireplace-going-around-it-thing-whose-actual-name-I've-forgotten

Mantle!

I have to laugh at forgetting about "mantel" since I do that all of the time.

Also, once, while writing an exceptionally long term paper in HS, I forgot how to spell "the". I clearly remember sitting there, saying the word out loud, and being scrunchy-faced thinky about it and pronouncing it over and over and and wondering what could *possibly* be written down to reflect a "the" sound.

Okay, this is weird/not-weird. Jezebel and Gawker have both covered this video as if it's a tale of diva bitchery, when if you watch it, it's not. It's a tale of divas talking about each other, sometimes well, and sometimes badly. The Jez commenter reaction was "why are you characterising it so badly?" and the Gawker was "dem bitches bad, man!" I get it that Denton's in it for pageviews, but I'm a little creeped out by the Gawker commenters.

Oh Jilli, do you know about antique dolls?

I know hardly anything about them. Bev is the person who knows a lot about dolls, and I love talking to her about about them.

I love the doll houses, I really do. But I don't know enough about them to know what's worth what. But I put a couple of them on display on the den because what's the point of having a doll house if you don't play with it?

Exactly! If there is a doll house, it must be played with!

My Monday woe: the stress-triggered eczema flared up overnight. I am currently trying not to claw open the back of my neck.

Javachik, I've had the EXACT same thing happen to me. Probably because I was up at 4AM trying to finish a paper.

I'd say that's generally a safe response, ita.(Not that I've been to either site much since their ugly redesign.)

Cass, I am super impressed! I have done very little, though several of the things you mention, I need to do. I printed a couple things, and talked to my boss for half an hour.

Currently, I am about to double-check on something being wrong still, before I send the "Why is this WRONG?!" angry email.