Bleh. Just bleh.

My day began with dreams of rainbows and vintage old movie houses, followed by coffee with a friend. From there, though, steadily downhill.

* Court early this afternoon, where the client actually showed up (not a totally predictable occurrence), but where the hearing officer essentially passed on the opportunity to unscrew transactions in which the client got very effectively screwed over the past seven months.  Also, my suitcoats seem to have acquired their own version of stigmata: after I got totally doused in a rainstorm last Friday (that one will be ready to pick up from the dry cleaner tomorrow), today was so humid, I left my jacket in the back seat through three prior appointments until actually putting it on outside the courthouse door- and it was completely doused in one shoulder pad by the time I put it on. No idea why, or how.

* Answering the phone after 4 p.m. proved to be a bad idea, all the way around. Never did get to work out, and did-did get into a variety of knock-down-drag-outs with the spawn, long before Eleanor even got home.

* Weather continues to suck major poultry here. One sure sign of that, literally, was the one outside the synagogue that I pass daily in my travels. They've returned to a weekly Bingo night this year, and while the signage previously advertised the names of the games and the top prizes, tonight it read, "BINGO- AIR CONDITIONED!"

Admittedly, it got better after that.  We worked out a lot of pre-college Logistical All The Things, we've got the lost Lucy Kaplansky CD on the stereo, and our air conditioning, blessedly, still works.