Tuesday Tuesday

Mood: See below
Hair: Braid (in)

My shoulder hurts again. I haven't wanted to mention it (superstition), but it has been feeling generally better. Now that it's back to hurting, I'll even say it was about 95% better. What the hell. Very annoying. I'm beginning to wonder if I have pleurisy; it hurts to breathe. I don't want to go to Dr. B, but I may have to. This just sucks. [Naproxen isn't helping at all...]

The boy neglected to tell me that he has a rough-draft essay due tomorrow, assigned Thursday last week. It's for D.A.R.E., so Mean Mom that I am, I reminded him he was going to be in trouble with the cops if he doesn't get it done properly. I have now sunk to a new low...turning fascist to coerce my kid to do homework. The thing is, it's a very cool assignment: he has to write a letter to himself which will be returned to him by the D.A.R.E. officer upon graduation from 8th grade.

The good news so far today is that Kristen is back! Hurrah. And once again I'm not memeing (meming?). Plus, I finished a book yesterday. Not a great one, but still... OK, and both Guardian of the Horizon (Peters) and Monkeewrench (Tracy) are on their way to me. So there are good books on the horizon.

Must get back to work.