IMG_4450“zzzzzzz…zzzzz.” says Abby.
“zzz… *kitten snore*… zzzzz…” says Tasha.

I am no longer seeing pink elephants. However, for a brief period of time, I thought the mini-cats had absconded with my cold medicine. It was a scary and tenuous time. And just the fact that I can use the word “absconded” without first trying to use “nasconded” (which is my Italian brain helping – “nascondere” means to hide) is a sign that the drugs are still doing something. Another lovely side-effect of cold medicine is that I don’t get tired. This means that when I was procrastinating taking Robitussin last night (because it’s vile but effective but vile) I was able to procrastinate until well after midnight. In truth, I was also procrastinating lying down and the inevitable coughing spasms associated with changing from vertical to horizontal.

Yesterday, my voice was froggy and it hurt a lot to talk. Today, well, my voice is still frog-like if that frog also has been smoking 2 packs a day for 40 years. But! It hurts less to talk. Yippee? By tomorrow I’ll be able to record as Eartha Kitt.

Did you know Eartha Kitt wrote 3 autobiographies? The first was published before she was 30. Proof of her concentrated awesomeness.

In other news, I’m finally watching The IT Crowd as recommended enthusiastically by my brother. It’s a quick one to watch too: 3 seasons of 6 “half hour” episodes. I watched the first 2 seasons yesterday on NetFlix Instant. I wonder what non-IT people think of the show. I think it’s a very clever and insightful show that echoes (sometimes painfully) the real experience of an IT department pretty accurately. The characters are a little too over-simplified and are perhaps too classic and too overly caricatured. But really? It works. It’s a BBC comedy with all the strange little trappings of the British humor with a healthy helping of IT humor and that unique IT perspective on things that I’d almost forgotten was out of the ordinary. The IT office is so great, especially in the first season. They have dead computer bits everywhere, little toys, strange posters, trash everywhere… stereotypical but also very much the classic IT cave in some neglected part of the offices that no other department would inhabit. Anyway, I’ll probably have more thoughtful and amusing things to say about this show when I’m not so congested.

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