• you wake up Friday morning with a bright red, runny, burning, itchy eye
• you call the doctor to make an early morning appointment and are told by the pre-recorded voicemail that the office doesn’t open until 9:30 – 9:30??  what nice hours!
• you sneak into work before 8:30am hoping to grab the work that MUST GET DONE (red eye or no red eye) with a baseball cap and sunglasses – even though its raining – before anyone else sees you…because you’re pretty gross
• you stalk the doctor’s office until someone finally picks up
• you go and see the doctor only to find out that you have a fever – in your eye…WTF?!
• you spend the day propped up on a pillow – a warm washcloth catching your “eye run-off” working on budgets for next summer
• you are reminded again and again that there is not enough money
• you put a towel on your pillow and try to take a nap – twice, and both times just as you are nodding off, the phone rings
• you was all your towels – twice
• it’s almost 6pm, on friday night, and you’re watching KATE: HER STORY and you’re crying it’s unclear how much of the tears are from the fever in your eye (?) or the pathetic-ness that is JON and KATE?!
• you cry because you were so proud of yourself for breaking the habit (of JON and KATE) – walking away from the crack (JON and KATE) – only to hit the stuff hard after one hour-long interview (JON and KATE)

i’m making seared scallops and brussel sprouts ala GEORGIA for dinner tonight.  don’t worry – i’m obsessively washing my hands.