1) We may have the slowest post office in the entire city of Chicago. Harumph.

2) Grocery shopping while cranky/crampy is not a wise choice.

3) I like to think that I'm a rugged-individualist-type woman, but my uterus caves to peer pressure in nothing flat. I was commiserating with a friend about her lousy week the other day, and she mentioned in passing that, to top it all off, she had cramps. I made sympathetic noises, but my uterus immediately said "Cramps? I'm supposed to be having cramps now? What a great idea!" Stupid uterus.

4) Despite all that, my day got better when I semi-finalized a five-month gig with Ragan and got word of another cool assignment from Jane. Whee!

5) Which is a good thing, because I think my unemployment insurance just ran out. Timing is everything.