-in the snow
-in the sun
-with leaves falling on me
-with a four-year-old poking me with a stick
-with air raid sirens going off around me
-with all sorts of ghosts and ghouls bearing down on me

AS LONG AS THIS $$^&&&$#% WEB SITE IS FINISHED

(my new self-help motto is: I do not need perfection to be a fabulous person)

good luck to you also -

but I think there’s a bit of rocking back and forth and something like, “Why can’t I have a footer with two lines of stuff in it. Why? There’s no reason a single line break should mess everything up. What if I made a table? Maybe a chair. Will it validate? Maybe if I sacrifice something to some internet God? Would my navigation buttons stop spilling into my main column then? What would a proper sacrifice be? Chinese food and Cheetos? I’ve got that. What if I’ve pissed off the Internet Gods.” End of muttering and start of soft sobs.

I’m not saying all of this happened exactly like this, but the last week has been a bit fuzzy. I knew that I had lost my mind when I moved my laptop next to the printer. Didn’t plug anything in. Hit print and stood there for 3 minutes wondering why it wasn’t doing anything.