TGIF...

...cuz that's the ONLY thing keeping me out of a dark corner right now... rocking back and forth crying...

i forgot to take allergy meds this morning. i woke up with the urgent need to visit the restroom. It was painful. My stomach has been threatening me all morning with violent upheaval, despite the fact that i've had nothing to eat. I left without breakfast or lunch, so stopped at 7-11. I purchased a sandwich and drink for lunch and saw a muffin that actually appealed to my unhappy stomach. Then I saw a banana and that made my stomach even happier.

So I get on the bus literally right out the door from 7-11 and i really really want to eat my banana but i resist- eating is not allowed on the CTA, and although i have often ignored that when i see no option and i'm not eating something messy, this morning i think, "Emily, what's another ten minutes? you can wait until you get off the bus and eat your banana and muffin in your office."

I hop off my bus at Dodge and Emerson and begin walking the 3 blocks to my office. I have gone 10 steps, and it's been just long enough that there's no way to flag the bus down as it trundles off down the road behind me, when i realize that I've LEFT THE 7-11 BAG OF FOOD ON THE BUS!

i've never done that. i stand on the sidewalk and desperately miss my car. and try really hard not to cry. instead i call my sister, also without a car, and bemoan my situation to her.

i am at work now (obviously) and have received some little joy from the fact that i was able to be the "Glue Stick Fairy" to a woman who works with me. she was bemoaning the fact yesterday to someone else that the last time she asked for glue sticks she got TWO instead of a whole big package of them, like she wanted. I went to SAm's Club with cindy last night and waiting in check out saw big packages of glue sticks for $6, and got one and left it on her desk this morning. she's gone around asking everyone (but me) if they got her the glue sticks.

hee hee.

TGIF