I should be doing something more than sitting here. I’ve packed what I can since I’m currently laundering the clothing I want to bring and I can’t pack up my toothbrush and stuff until the bitter bitter end. And I’ve got a full calendar of stuff to do outside of work as well -friends to see, errands to run, errands to run for friends, exercise to do. BUT BUT BUT… I wore heels today. My feet hurt. I’m so tired from not having a weekend, I can’t focus much. I am getting a late dinner with friends and then probably going right to sleep so I can go into work early tomorrow.

And it’s amazing how people crawl out of the woodwork when they realize you’re going to be out of the office for more than a day. I mean, it’s fine - a little stress-inducing, but OK. I’m glad to feel all useful and stuff.

But a fun thing today: I was talking to my boss about things that I might need to leave in her hands while I’m away and she asked me if I’d have time for an important meeting tomorrow with another co-worker. And I said that I actually had a meeting with this co-worker at the same time she was suggesting - to which she responded, “Great - that means we can go to Rita’s for two-stamp Tuesday!”

There’s a Rita’s (”Ice. Custard. Happiness”) in Hoboken and we’ve gotten into the habit of walking down there once -OK, a couple of times- a week. On Tuesdays, they stamp your frequent buyer card twice for any purchase. My co-worker is in her third trimester of baby-prep, so ice cream cravings are allowed. The rest of us are enablers. Or just willing to interrupt our work day for some Italian ice (though I vastly prefer the custard and get myself a kids’ size chocolate vanilla twist when we go.)

Yes. So I accepted the meeting invitation for tomorrow afternoon. The meeting called, “Two-stamp Tuesday at Rita’s!”

And it’s not even a team-building exercise. The team’s built, yo.