scrambled brain of various varieties

I got stuck this morning with a phone call the likes of which I hadn't had since I worked at TUSDM and got the entire medical histories of the lonely elderly patients. This woman had an impenetrable Asian accent of some sort or other and went ON and ON and ON for fifteen solid minutes about the Harvard Department of Psychology and the Obama administration and J1 visas and the Nobel Prize and the US Constitution and the Department of Health and Human Services and banks and several other things, and I have no idea what she wanted. I would've hung up on her except I was afraid she'd call back. She was very determined to tell me about all this stuff. OW, my BRAIN!

Ever since last week, I've been trying to stifle a serious case of gadget envy. We had a meeting last week in a conference room we weren't sure was set up for wireless, and when the question came up, five of the eight people in the meeting produced iPhones and verified that you can indeed get wireless access in there. The thing is, I don't want an iPhone; I hate flat phones, and I'm happy with Sprint, so there's no reason for me to get an iPhone. But now I really want an iPod touch. (iWant?)

This is really pretty cool.

I'm having a terrible time remembering what day it is, this week. I thought Tuesday was Wednesday and yesterday was Tuesday. So that makes today Monday, because the week is going backward, right? Except it isn't, and today is Thursday. Thank goodness.