The ugliness has passed

Sorry for all the ick that I was spewing forth earlier this week--it was an unfortunate combination of rampant PMS, the birthday blues, and feeling completely overwhelmed by work. Thankfully all three of those issues have passed and now I'm starting to feel more human than monster again. I'm hoping to use a little bit of a lull in my workload to catch up on some languishing cases and hopefully get myself into a better position for the next time a crunch hits, but I also want to take it a little bit easier for awhile too.

I got my car back yesterday, which was nice except for the fact that this little episode cost me $850 out of pocket thanks to my deductible, rental car fee, and towing fee. The repairs, while seemingly minor, amounted to $2100 because they had to replace my entire hood. That means my insurance will definitely go up, which sucks. But at least I have no points on my license. Now I have to focus on being a better driver and not texting or using my blackberry while in traffic--which should seem obvious but hey, I'm a multi-tasker. What can I say. Or as my terrified passenger Griftdrift recently put it, to paraphrase: "it's not that you're a terrible driver....OK, you are a terrible driver. But you're also easily distractable, which is really the problem." So, I'm going to work on that because I would really like to avoid both the sky high insurance bills and also fulfilling the bad girl driver stereotype.

And on that note, I'm headed out of the city today for a meeting in the town where my parents live so I will be offline for most of the day. Because I'm not going to blog or twitter or text or anything else while I'm in the car for the 90 minute drive each way. No really, I'm not! As always, consider following the links on the blogroll to some interesting spots slightly off the beaten path.