A Drier Day

Well, no water in the library today. As per usual in our school system, and I think in most government-related entities, we hire the lowest bidder. This is why every building is crap, but it's Board policy, and for all I know, state law. It's not a good plan, but it's all we've got.

Today was more just gearing up for the end of the year. As I was literally shutting down the library today, one of the kids who never handed in that project (that was due two weeks ago) asked me if he could get the required sheet from his locker and hand it in now. And I told him that the moment he left the library, I was going home. Hello. I did say I would take it on Monday, since I'll grade it if he didn't, but I'm guessing the late penalty is going to be a killer.

I've been on the phone for it feels like ever, first with the Sibs, then with R, then with the Sibs again. Then with the Sibs again. There's a big Bare Escentuals event on QVC tonight/tomorrow, and we needed to get our priorities straightened out, or more precisely, our inventories. She and I will sometimes get these multi-piece sets because we share with each other what we don't need, or with the next generation of BE users, which currently includes R, Wonderful Niece, and Good Guy Nephew's fiancee. K says she can't justify expensive make-up now, but will join the fray when she starts teaching, which I think is awfully sweet of her since she must be seeing who actually pays for a lot of the stuff. (The girls do buy their own, but we're generous mommies.) Anyway, I've got my list straight, and as it turns out, I need absolutely nothing. That should make watching the shows something of a personal challenge, I think.

I got a call today from the cardiologist's secretary reminding me to make my annual follow-up appointment for July. Cripes. I think I'm in that doctors' office every five minutes, since all of my doctors -- or most of them -- are there. I just saw the podiatrist this morning, and of course, I make regular visits to Resnick there, and I have my semi-annual check-up coming at the end of this month. They should name a chair in the waiting room after me.

(I once asked them at the ear-nose-throat doctor's office if I had the thickest file out of all their patients, and the nurse hefted my file and said she thought so. These are the good people who found my brain tumor, and who do the regular maintenance on my sinuses.)

So did something happen today? I just put MSNBC on, but all I'm getting so far is silly news.

WATCHING MSNBC :: ENTRY #1773