i'm so ready for a lovely three-day weekend... the past few weeks have been more harassing the hell out of boardbook abstracts, as two of my coworkers have not been able to step up to the challenge of doing their jobs right. well, one of them in particular. the other is sort of getting it. anyway, heather, claire, and i had to go through all the abstracts and completely revamp them so that they were actually submissible. sheesh. we don't have time to hand-hold and do someone else's job... one of the two was planning on taking today off. it's a good thing he didn't, because heather and claire are so mad at him that he probably would have lost his job over it. yikes!

i have tiny blond puppy hairs all over me! claire has been bringing her new yellow lab pup, clementine, into work every day this week. so cute, but a biter. i know she's young, and teething, but it's worse than it should be. time for puppy class!

one of rich's friends made a potent point recently about letting people we care about, know that we care about them. why is it so hard for us to suck it up and tell people how we feel? we expect that the people who we do care about would know, just by virtue of how we interact... but maybe they don't quite know. and regardless of whether they do, it's nice to know that someone's got your back. when you're feeling blue, you need it loud and clear, too...