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Visit by colleagues is over. Nice to see them and work with them, frustrating to not have prepared agenda, frustrating to have so many other demands.

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( This week at work )

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I am fortunately feeling better from The Cough, with some energy returning.

I really miss Christine: not only was i in the office on Wednesday, but ate out with colleagues on Wednesday, so i've hardly had a chance to see her since the weekend. (I'm up early, and am going to sleep at about the time she comes home from classes; she's getting up just as i am out the door in the morning.) She's worried about me -- health and my work distress -- without checking in together i think her worries ran away a bit.

I've left her one morning in the grips of migraine, another morning she was frustrated over the dead dishwasher.

Oh dead dishwasher, whose replacement part may not arrive before the 27th, you should be glad we don't "Do Thanksgiving." If we did, we would likely curse you for your poorly timed part failure.

Oh Consumer Reports -- You said this model was reliable!!

We've agreed to have Pizza Delivery for Thanksgiving: it is what we would have some of the years in Philly when Christine was in radio, doing night shifts. It's food that she loves, and not focusing on food allows focus on Thanks.

I can let my Inner Martha Stewart play other times.