Lazy

Have a periodontist appointment this morning at 11, so I get to take my time getting ready this morning.

Which also means that I get to have real coffee, at home, for once. Yay for peruvian organic coffee. :-)

Am reading a book on Cats that heterodoxy lent to me. Is interesting stuff. Next I have to dig through a cookbook I just got from lioncub and figure out some good eats for the next few days.

Random thought morning, it seems.

Later

So, after lazing around this morning I hopped a cab and went down to my appointment with the periodontist. Got there a little early to fill out forms, chatted with the receptionist, then sat and waited. And waited. And waited. The doctor got stuck in some surgery, something happened, blah, blah. No big deal, but was getting odd when all kinds of people started showing up in the reception area and I still hadn't been called in.

Long story short, I need a couple gum grafts, but they can wait. I told her the focus right now is the ankle and unless my teeth were going to fall out next week, the grafts were not going to happen until after the ankle was done and good. She was fine with that. Actually, she was a hoot, I loved her bedside manner, it was very matter of fact with the occasional diversion, but I never felt that I was being talked down to, which you do get with the occasional doctor (or lawyer *grin*).

Got a call from Christopher on the way to grab lunch, chatted with him for a bit. He allowed as how he prefers Christopher, so I'll go and change the diary entries from the previous two Sundays and replace the "J" with "Christopher." Grabbed lunch to go, zipped over to the Metro, metro'd down to L'Enfant. Went to CVS to grab this new cold sore medication, Abreva, to see how it does. Had printed off a coupon from the site to use and had to go through this whole song and dance to get them to take the coupon (they thought it was a photocopy - um, NO!). Finally told them it was fine if they didn't take it, but if not I was calling corporate over it. They took it. When you're talking $2 off a $17 item (12% or so off), I'm willing to turn on my full obnoxious lawyer self. I did apologize to the cashier once the manager left, but I wasn't going to back down.

Deposited checks, ran into work, 1/2 an hour late now because of the delay in the appt. and the fight with CVS. Finally got my lunch, and caught up on emails/voicemails. Whee. So that's Friday so far.

Short & Sweet

Had to recommend changes in language for some legislation we're proposing, and basically I shortened it, cut out a lot of excess verbiage, and made it more flexible in our favor. The person whose language I was changing, of course, is an older attorney in the office and I always get apprehensive about changing older attorneys' language because almost inevitably they were trained (either explicitly or through example) to be as "wordy" as possible in their legal writing. The teachers in legal writing, at least when I went through, were all about short & sweet - get the point across as succinctly as possible, a sentiment with which I agree wholeheartedly. Contrary to popular opinion, we're not all windbags.

Thankfully he took it well, and was quite happy that it was shorter and more flexible. *phew*