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The lull was nice while it lasted, and at least it lasted long enough for me to have breakfast. Today we're officially fully staffed, so there were bagels and coffee and fruit. This office likes to feed people; two days ago we had a lunch meeting, and ended up with so many leftovers that we sent the FedEx man off with a sandwich when he showed up, and made sandwiches ourselves yesterday.

Today I'm chasing money letters, which are the bane of my existence after the SOP meeting. They're worse than the letters I have to write, have proofread, print on letterhead, send downstairs to be signed, wait a week while they don't sign them, ask for them, wait two more days, get them back and send them out. (They're only the official congratulations letters, after all, it's not like they're important, or anything...)

Never mind. I am not going there, because it's Friday and I have a staff meeting in ten minutes anyway, and I can complain about it there.

I probably shouldn't have had coffee this morning. It was high-test, and I'm not used to it any more. But it was decent coffee and it was free, so who am I to complain?

hysteria

It must be spring, or a long week, or both, because we've all gone demented.

I got an email message that made me laugh so hard I had to share it with the rest of my office, because they wanted to know why I was in hysterics. (Because apparently, thou shalt not read a name like "Dr. Onderdonk" while eating anything, because of the danger of whatever you're eating coming out your nose and gunking up your keyboard.) After that, I had calmed down and was clearing the decks and my boss came out of her office in an uproar, because apparently there was a dinosaur in there, or at the very least an enormous triangular insect with a tail. Dealing with that set us all off again. (It was a silverfish, and it wasn't all that enormous.)

I can't decide whether we've all gone slightly insane, or whether it's merely Friday.