This week will be insane!

I'm going to be working at the office from 9:15 to 1:45, four and a half hours, every day, while I scramble to get the kids fed and settled for breakfast, then pick them up on the way back home. Tomorrow will be the most mad day yet, when I have to get one girl to the dance hall, the other to her counselling session, then pick them up, feed them quickly, and drive Yamaraashi-chan over to Tukwila for a dress rehearsal. I'm trying to cast two major pages at work with all of this, and it's not going to be any fun.

Worse yet, I seem to have hurt myself. I ran for a bus today and my book bag slid off my shoulder. It had my laptop in it, so I panicked and grabbed for it before it hit the cement, and something in my shoulder gave a really hard twang. The pain spread down across my back and chest, but it was clearly muscle strain. It twinges now when I move it, but it doesn't seem to prevent my typing, and aspirin does seem to be helping.

Shameful confession: Diana Lombard is hot.

One of Kouryou-chan's addictions is Martin Mystery, which is basically Scooby-Doo for the 21st Century. In the episode she watched today, You Do Voodoo, Diana tossed aside her purple shirt and blue handbag for a black overcoat, black midriff tank and torn jeans, and she dyed her red hair black. She's trying to be goth.

Shamefully, I think she's hot as a goth.

One of the shticks of the show is that Diana, despite cultivating an air of rationality and reason, always tries one major character-building exercise each show usually for no other reason than that it annoys Martin, her stepbrother. I wish she'd stick with this one.