Excessively exciting...

It's become customary for me to have dinner with Purple on a random weeknight, just the two of us. I'd looked at my schedule for the week: Monday, work call. Tuesday, evening before the Day of Two Dentists. Wednesday, the Day of Two Dentists. Thursday, nothing planned. Friday, dinner. So it was Tuesday or Thursday, since dinner after TDO2D sounded ... unwise. And Purple has a standing social engagement Thursdays which he tries to go to unless he's working late or too tired, so Tuesday it was. Even though we were both very tired. We had sandwiches, companionably, and talked about an astonishing range of topics. He was sorry to drag me all the way down there for so short a dinner, but -- well, I was just glad to see him, you know?

So Wednesday was the Day of Two Dentists. (No dental horror is contained in this narrative, unless you count bureaucracy and passing references to high-pitched noises.)

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Tomorrow is Friday. Hooray Friday. I need to call Crystal back, to get that list of dentists, and reassure her that I am not quite literally dead in a ditch.

My tweets

• Thu, 01:34: RT @qikipedia: One Oxfam shop has received so many donations of 50 Shades of Grey that they've managed to build a fort https://t.co/lFtZ7Ow…
• Thu, 02:00: Not a super great day. Dentist #3 tomorrow. :/ (Dentist #2 fell through today. Replacement was located.)
• Thu, 07:49: Talk to your kids and AIs about racism and similar bullshit before you let them talk to the Internet. https://t.co/EQUCUTNYNN
• Thu, 07:52: RT @Cadigan: Apparently, the people at UK TV channel Dave decided to rename some animals. Now I want a treefloof: https://t.co/tR0Rq73zDy
• Thu, 07:54: RT @foxfeather: Ignoring the giant snowstorm. Here's a noble, windblown rooster from yesterday. Columbian Wyandotte! https://t.co/9gm9BoHY…
• Thu, 07:56: RT @sirycroftmusic: I wish more people understood this. https://t.co/n1YrJFQ2y1
• Thu, 17:32: RT @mchris4duke: actual comment "Where are the bathrooms for dolphins? Some people identify as dolphins." RT if you would rather pee w dolp…
• Thu, 19:11: RT @Bry_Campbell: https://t.co/glgXy3jDcP
• Thu, 21:47: #tw Ah yes, that fun game of "What's that noise?!" the Plaintive Cat, High-Voiced Sex Noise, or High-Voiced Distress version.
• Fri, 01:03: My fitbit #Fitstats_en_US for 3/24/2016: 3,260 steps and 1.4 miles traveled. https://t.co/gFMrr7HEB6

My tweets

• Fri, 03:04: RT @RoseLemberg: Right now, there is no requirement in the US to carry your ID wherever you go. These laws will require that to become a ne…
• Fri, 03:04: RT @RoseLemberg: Once carrying IDs becomes a requirement, they can legislate all kinds of information to be mandatory on these IDs.
• Fri, 03:04: RT @RoseLemberg: It is going to be used to discriminate - not just trans people, but pretty much everyone. This is a THREAT to democracy.
• Fri, 03:05: RT @RoseLemberg: So even if you do not care about this, cis people, you should, because this endangers everyone's rights. Everyone's.
• Fri, 03:13: Unexpected *chirp* from the computer-industrial complex. I freeze in terror and think about how long a failing HHD might last...
• Fri, 03:13: ...only to hear static and realize that I left the improperly shielded speakers powered on, and something had just been noisy.
• Fri, 03:40: RT @adrienneleigh: This is a SUPER COMMON failure mode of STEM people, especially the dudes. "I'm smart so everything is trivial." https://…
• Fri, 03:42: RT @radkat: Uhm.. Wut? https://t.co/IMrEfKAMYh
• Fri, 09:47: RT @AstroKatie: "We can make 'smart drones'!" "Your chatbot became a Nazi in like a day." "OK good point."
• Fri, 09:59: RT @rainbowrowell: My son is coming up with “if the Hamilton characters were cats” names; I am raising the Internet. #AaronPurr