a few quick things

a) when i get really irritated with work stuff, i sometimes allow this anger to express itself in the documents rather than, say, at a coworker. or client. this is why i currently have a document saved to my desktop called "Clusterf0ck" and why one of my passwords to a work program is "F*ckthis11".

b) i have a stupid cold. it's not even a bad one, so the amount of moping and mournful sighing i'm doing is entirely unjustified. but DARN IT my throat hurts, and i feel like poo, and i want to go lie down and YES i'd like some cheese with my whine THANKYOUVERYMUCH. sniffle.

c) i put up a christmas tree! i'll post some pictures of both the lovely finished product soon, as well as of oliver destroying it. sigh.

d) i went to the wife's holiday party last night. the holiday party for the job she talks about in this interview, i mean. which meant that there was a lot of in-talk about scalpels and jokes about.. well.. scalpels. the wife found this horrifying. i found this HILARIOUS. there was even a poetry segment to the evening, wherein employees were invited to share poems they'd written about their position in the donor organization. these poems were.. sort of not good. somewhere in the realm of fantastically awful, actually. i thought the wife was going to die. i was having a GRAND time, though. i even wrote a poem for them! there was an apparently hysterical joke at one point that i didn't get because it involved a "twenty-two," and the wife explained (looking mortified) that a twenty-two blade is another name for the scalpel. so! i wrote this poem for my new tissue recovery friends:

STILL LIFE WITH SCALPEL

in life you were a pretty girl
with coach and fendi shoe
but things have changed a touch these days
due to my twenty-two.