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I am in need of birthday foo, especially since my departure from here is sort of iminent. I'm just feeling unmotivated to plan something. I'll figure it out.

Mom is unsympathetically amused about our iminent arrival in New York tomorrow. I'm sure she's not nearly as stressed as I am about it.

I'm curious as to what the bedroom arrangements will be. My Mom has always had very strict rules about my sister and I having boys in the house (don't ask about girls please...we never really did get that one straightened out.) No boys upstairs, period, no questions asked. If you had a boy over, you stayed outside, or downstairs, or in the basement. And the door stayed open. No discussion. When there were boys at the house overnight, the rule was separate bedrooms. Usually boys downstairs in the guest room, and you, upstairs in your own bedroom. And I've always (mostly...I have done my share of making out/sneaking around) respected the rules about it. But I'm wondering, now that we've gotten engaged, what's going to happen. Is it going to be separate bedrooms til we get married? My childhood bedroom is too small for anything larger than a twin bed. What then?

It's all curious.

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Do any of my New Jersey knowlegeable friends have a good route from Long Island to George Street in New Brunswick? I've got to be there Monday, the woman who I'm meeting with has yet to answer my query for directions, and the map sites are all sending me in ways that I'm not sure make any actual sense (since they seem to ignore my preferred route into NJ and require going accross Westchester or through lower Manhattan.

My preferred route from Long Island to NJ involves crossing the Verezzano Bridge, following 278 through Staten Island to 440 and taking the Outerbride Crossing...that puts me near 287, near 514, the Parkway and the Turnpike.

I'd rather avoid crossing Manhattan if I can help it, and/or treking up to Westchester...I'm sure there's a sensible way, but none of the usual sources seem to know it.

Thanks.

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Normally, I avoid caffeine except in very limited quantities on Friday/Saturday/days when I don't have to work the next day. I get very bad effects from caffeine sometimes, and it messes with my sleep quite badly. The exception is when I get migraines, I'll drink a regular coke-it seems to help settle my stomach and help the headache.

I don't have to be in my office til half past 11 tomorrow. I have group at the psychiatric hospital in Leesburg (an hour and a half or so away.) I had no juice in the office, and wanted something more substantial than water. There was a bottle of Pepsi on the counter in the kitchen, leftover from a meeting earlier in the week. So I poured a cup, and sipped it over the last 90 minutes or so.

I'm having unbelievable caffeine side effects. I'm jittery. My eyes feel weird. My heart is racing. The effects seem to hit me really fast today.

Odd. I wonder if it's a pepsi v. coke thing, cause coke usually doesn't do this.