Sometimes you want ear plugs (or, you just want the election to be over)

So I was dazing off (NOT dozing off) at work today while waiting for the computer to catch up with me, when the fire alarm went off. A co-worker came by to assure me that it was just a drill and to tell me to put on my tennis shoes and prepare to endure the painfully slow process of being herded down the stairs from the 21st floor. The drill was annoying enough but to make it a triple whammy, I had already started off the day with a pretty hard leg work-out at the gym AND I left my tennis shoes at home this morning (I usually wear them to walk to and from MARTA and then change out when I get to work, but this morning, I drove to the station).


When I walk the stairs at work for exercise, it takes me 5 minutes to get down and ten to get back up. Today it took 15 minutes to get down the stairs and you better believe I took the elevator back up after standing outside in the heat waiting for the all clear signal that we could return to the building.

That 15 minute march down the stairs allowed my mind to pick up where my dazing left off: wandering (or as I see in disability applications as a reason someone can't work: "my mind wonders"). As I was daydreaming, my brain of course went directly to the questionnaire invented by Bernard Pevo that includes "what sound or noise do you hate?" and I quickly added "fire alarms" to my list.

Then I made up my own question: "what words or phrases are you totally over, besides 'totally'?" (note, I'll never be over "over")
Here's my list, feel free to add to it:
Maverick
Joe Six Pack
Joe the Plumber (that one only took 24 hours to make my list)
Darn right
That one
and of course the one that makes me want to imitate Maddie coughing up a hairball every time I hear it: my friends

My friends, on a brighter note (add that phrase to the above list too), here is a photo of Doc B. (that one) and me (joe six pack) walking the labyrinth (darn right!) on our (maverick) yoga retreat this past weekend. I couldn't figure out how to get Joe the plumber into that sentence... Namaste Y'all...