The upside to doing contract work is that you only have to work the number of hours assigned. The downside to being an uncommonly AWESOME contractor? They forget you're a contractor and say things like, "Don't worry about coming in Monday after New Year's. Take some time off. Come in Wednesday."
I'm coming in today, because momma needs her money.
I had that pre-Monday, post-vacation anxiety last night and was forced into taking a Tylenol PM. We have a bottle of the Walgreen version which is the most Valley of the Dolls-inspired pill bottle I've ever encountered. Their generic ibuprofen comes in discreet white plastic bottles. Ditto the aspirin, Wal-dryl and Wal-itin. The Tylenol PM knockoff comes in a giant clear bottle so you can see the orgy of happy blue pills inside.
Aside from the Sunday night holy shit panics, I rarely have trouble getting to sleep so I use Tylenol PM sparingly. For one, it scares the bejeebus out of me and number two, I once took it without giving myself enough time to sleep and woke up feeling like I was wrapped in cotton (I'm going to refrain from giving a Fellowship of the Rings reference but I think the geeks among you know what I'm talking about). Right now, however, I feel pretty good.
Maybe yesterday's epic stroll through SF helped. Here - have some pretty, pretty pictures. I took this in the Botanical Garden in GG Park, a place I had never been because they don't - for obvious reasons - allow dogs and I'm almost never without A dog when I'm in GG Park. (Click on pix for mindblowingly large versions.)
Also, did you know they have indoor AND outdoor handball courts in the park? This is a view from the serving line back towards the entrance. Yes, it looks like a Mexican jail. I GET THAT.
And here's another of the world's most aggressively friendly squirrel. The Botanical Garden is full of them, and they run up to you like they're going to pluck your eyeballs out, but really they're just sizing you up to see if you're the squirrel-feeding type.
