I thought today was going to be light, but instead I had the meeting from hell. They dropped it in my lap as soon as I walked in the door - which was before I technically start work - and they said it was going to be three hours long. Well, it turned out to be four hours, but I didn’t have to do the first 90 minutes because the one deaf guy in that session was teleworking anyway. But still, the only reason it ended at four hours was because I started to stretch my hands between phrases, and my deaf clients realized how long I’d been working and said they didn’t need to stay for the rest of the meeting. I think it ended up going on another 30 minutes after we left. It left me functionally brain-dead until about 3:00 though.

Today I am picking up a nice Freecycle score, even if it is way the heck out in what the boonies (people have a pretty broad definition of “McLean, VA” it seems). I’m getting both French Scrabble and Make Your Own-Opoly, which A has suggested I turn into Hello Kitty-Opoly.

Okay, we are officially weird. A has gone into a Freecycling frenzy, and here are two recent listings:

OFFER: Four X-ray films of a cat
Well, these are four X-ray films of a cat. Perhaps you are an extremely creative person and want these for a project, or you want to play a practical joke on your doctor?

OFFER: Inflatable hot pink plastic poodle
Well, this is a multi-use item: scares cats and creeps out my 23-year-old sister. Perhaps it’s the festive bow and red eyes; perhaps it’s the haunting wheezing it makes when it’s squeezed. Has a loop on top for hanging as a…decorative item. Or for Halloween.