Ouch.

My neck still hurts. I must have been scrunching my shoulders a lot recently. Unpleasant vice-like sensation in neck and lower part of my head is very annoying. It made me want to just go home and go to sleep last night after work, but I thought no, I could make it through a ballet class. Just as I started actually looking forward to the ballet class, which would probably have made me feel better, the subways break down and I have to walk the last 40 blocks home. (Btw, why did B&N still not have the POTC soundtrack? I now know it exists, so why is it being kept from me?)

I did catch a very crowded bus about 3/4 of the way home, which was nice. The bus is a bonding experience in ways subways are not. You make a lot more eye contact and talk to people. One woman by the door was so excited by the whole flooded-out subway crowdedness of it all she appointed herself Bus Prefect and shouted out instructions all the way home: "Only making subway stops! Seventy-ninth street next! You don't have to pay!" The bus driver has a handy little pa system with which to make these kinds of announcements, but she was so into it he stopped using it.

( I'm hoping my neck will feel better when I am through with a very stressful phone call. )

ARRRGGGH! My cookies are all stale! I am mocked for liking artificial food, but this is the risk one takes with perishables when one is a hoarder!

Also, I have missed everyone's birthday. samaranth, for instance. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO YOU ALL!