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So on Monday I trotted a couple of blocks over and up from my office to Mount Sinai and had a mole removed from my back. (The progression of doctors amused me: my GP looked at it and said "Hm. This one worries me a little bit, and you have a lot of them, and given your fair skin and history of sunburn, I'm sending you to a dermatologist for a second opinion." Dermatologist looked at it and said "Hm. Could be something, could be nothing. Why don't we send you to a plastic surgeon for a second opinion?" Plastic surgeon looked at it and said "Yep, we'll take that off. Two weeks from now suit you?" In conclusion: there are stereotypes about surgeons for a reason.)

Anyway, she was very nice and it was a relatively speedy procedure under local anaesthetic, but I currently have a set of sutures very slightly off-centre between my shoulderblades. The problem with this: have you ever tried to put a dressing on that part of your own back? I tried it this morning and managed it eventually, but sheesh. You have to crane your neck around to see it in a mirror, and if you're me you keep shifting the dressing in the opposite direction to the one you want, and whichever way you reach and whichever hand you use it's about at the limit of where your arms will go, and the action of reaching stretches the skin so that when you get back to a normal position the tape gets all scrunched up. Jen did it for me yesterday (I was going to leave that one in place but I got the very low-tack first-aid tape so as not to annoy my skin, and it doesn't survive being slept on all that well). Will keep that arrangement going, I think. Will also go see if I can find any more of the giant band-aids.

In other news, sat next to a lawyer on the streetcar this morning whose cellphone conversations reminded me irresistibly of This Is Wonderland. When he got up to get off the streetcar I saw he had a TIW hat, which pleased me immensely. I miss that show.

It's Friday!

grrr stupid American government anyway grrr

No, this post has nothing to do with Iraq. I'm talking about the stupid changes-to-Daylight Saving Time thing. Last night my workplace (supposedly) applied a patch that would make sure the new DST change would take place at the correct time. This (supposedly) puts all our Lotus Notes calendar entries that are set for the window between March 11 and April 1 off by an hour, and (supposedly) they're going to fix that over the weekend. Except my calendar entries aren't off. So I phoned the Help Desk. Presumably they will do something about this. I have a bad feeling about those 3 weeks worth of meetings, though. I have a lot of meetings coming up.

Personally I was quite happy with the old DST rules, thank you very much. Won't somebody think of the cows? (pace lawgeekgurl)