The End Is Nigh

Internet, 

I could say so many things about the end of the Legislative Session this year.  But since I have just arrived home at 9:30 in the morning after working 41 out of the previous 48 hours (the last 26 straight), I'll be brief so I can go get an hour of sleep (I hope?!  My body is so messed up right now) and a shower and change of clothes before returning for who knows how long.  

1.  It is not healthy to work this much.  

2.  A female senator asked me about an hour ago, "No offense, but were you wearing those clothes yesterday?"  I did not take offense, because a) we probably all look and smell alike, and b) I'm pretty sure she asked because she legitimately could not remember.  

3.  I stupidly forgot.  I forgot to pack my end-of-session survival kit.  I haven't had to deal with this for a couple of years, and usually it doesn't start so many days before the end of session.  Normally, the all nighters begin to happen the last weekend, not the Tuesday before the last weekend.  This does not bode well for my next week.  But at least I remembered my last-week-of-session #1 Rule: wear pants and flats.  

4.  The worst I've ever done with this job is two back-to-back all-nighters.  I hope to not repeat that performance of 2010 or beat that record.  Ugh.  

5.  It is not healthy to work this much.  

That is all...for now.  

xoxoxo,

Linear

Square in the middle

Dear Internet, 

The most humorous phrase I've read in the last five minutes is the following:  "Hotel managers square in the middle."  I didn't realize people were squares (at least not in the context in which it was used - it was used in the context of the managers being put in a hard spot between fighting owner and client).  

The author (or editor) probably meant "squarely in the middle," which would make the people not squares (or maybe it's square-shaped waists?), but rather firmly and centeredly put in the middle of the something.  Now I can't get the mental picture of square-shaped people (or maybe it's boring people?) out of my head.  I think this must be some sort of person-spongebob cross breed.  This has taken what I was reading in a whole different direction, far away from what the author surely intended...

xoxo,

Minny LinnEy

Mayday! Abandon Minnesota.

Good grief.  Over the course of one week, we have gone from snow, to my neighbor running his air conditioner for two days straight, and now back to snow.

Mayday!  Mayday!  Mayday!

It might be time to abandon ship.  (What, with all of the tax increases passed by the DFL this week, there's probably more than one reason to want to leave Minny.)

Oh, it's "May Day," you tell me, Internet?  Well, la di da.  I'm going with "mayday."

~Minny LinnEy

(Also, Happy Anniversary to my parents!  Of your 43 years of marriage, I pity you because you've had to deal with me for most of them.  Hahaha!  I'm sure you threw out more than one "mayday" to God while I was growing up...)

(Also: Happy Birthday to my childhood friend Rebekah, who will always be older than me!)