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Oh, it is SO Friday the 13th. Every schedule I touch blows up on me, usually AFTER I send out the meeting confirmation and reserve the room. (The copier tried to give me grief, too, but I wasn't having any. I'm taking enough from animate objects today; I don't need no attitude from no inanimate objects.)

Granted, some of the brain-scramble is my fault, because I gave up on the meeting schedules to go to lunch, but I spent my lunchtime doing a proofreading test in French. (I really hope that wasn't a real translation, because if it was, I can do better than that!)

And I forgot the dry cleaning again.

I've broken three diet resolutions this month already (I said no chocolate, no pasta and no potato chips after New Year's Day), and I'm sorely tempted to break a fourth and go get some ice cream, because that's about all I can do from work to make things any better.

the solution for today: go to bed and start over tomorrow

Yep, broke the "no ice cream" resolution too, with a Kahlua milkshake on the way home. It was that sort of day at work. Although now that I've broken both the chocolate and the ice cream resolutions, I can actually eat the birthday cake and ice cream I'm providing for somebody in two weeks. February is an easier month to avoid chocolate, especially if you happen not to have any reason to come in contact with Valentine's Day candy.

I have two separate sets of plans for tomorrow morning. How late I sleep will determine which one I actually end up following. One involves sleeping as late as possible and then going more or less straight to Arisia, and the other involves getting up, buying hair dye and dealing with that, FINALLY taking the dry cleaning to be cleaned, and going to Arisia from there. What will probably happen is something in between the two, but I don't know what. Whatever it is, it involves making coffee. I can guarantee that one.

I wish I had something like a car-alarm remote for my back; push the button and everything unlocks. Unfortunately, none of the stretches I know are doing anything for it.

Whichever version of iTunes I now have, after it insisted on being upgraded the other night, has plunked the Music Store across the entire bottom third of the window, and I can't make it go away. Which means that now that the Fruit & Bait list is up to 151 songs, I can't have most of it on one screen any more. Grrr. (Oh, it's iTunes 6.0.2. Mystery solved. With the exception of Adobe Reader, version 6 of ANYTHING sucks pond water through a flavor straw. Adobe Reader jumped the gun; version 5 sucked instead.)