Waiting for Santa

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the weekend of sunshine, it was the weekend of rain; it was a night at the movies, it was a night of a speeding ticket. I remember the stupid quote, but not the punctuation. I want to write that out as…

Still avoiding the forum that was getting me so bent out of shape. Found another place to post, where some of the people from the old forum visit once in a while. Nothing there to trigger my anger, nothing to trigger tears, nothing to turn me into an ogre, unfit to be company to anyone….

So welcome to my world. A world where, yet again, Dr. Liver has patients who need his care more than I. Yesterday I had my desk packed up, my briefcase zipped, and was reaching for my coat when the phone rang. It was Dr. Liver’s office, regretfully informing me that, for reasons known only to…

Mr. Squirrel has been coming to visit our balcony rather regularly. I couldn’t figure out why. He’d already decided he didn’t like my plants (by taking ample taste samples of each one, the turkey). I finally had to guess he was coming because he liked to tease the cats, especially ACfH. Now this doesn’t speak…

The Prof invited me to accompany him downtown when he went to class. It wasn’t as if I had anything else to do, so I grabbed my trusty Acer and set up shop in the campus Starbucks. I should say “one of the campus Starbucks”; apparently center city students live on coffee and overpriced pastries…

At least for me it is. Big Chain Pharmacy Store is open, and I know they’ve scheduled at least one tech to work. It would actually be a great day to have a shift on, since it’s the third day in a row that most doctors’ offices would be closed, meaning at this point there’d…