I was awake a little in the night, but now it's starting to be light, it's a little cooler and it's nice to be Saturday. I admit to a little retail therapy yesterday. Becky called me as I was about to leave work. "I'm at Coldwater Creek and everything is 50% off!" I called Ray to say, "Shall I come pick you up or shall I go to Coldwater Creek with Becky?" "Do that one," he said. So I did. We tried on lots and lots of thing and advised each other and finally had to whittle down what were actually going to buy. I bought several skirts and one t-shirt. It will be fun to have plenty of skirts to choose from. They are definitely cooler for summer.

My office is quite hot. It is a cinder-block building and I insist the thermostat not be set below 78, since I pay the bills, including the electric bill, which is many hundreds of dollars. When I get there in the morning, it is hot and stuffy. I put on the fan. If it feels cool, I check and see if the thermostat needs to be turned up. When the air starts running, it is not too bad. But by mid-afternoon, it is really hot and I am glad I get to leave.

I wish Molli were here. I would have bought her some things at Coldwater Creek for her birthday yesterday. It used to be, I would say she could look through what I bought and pick out a few things for herself. But now she has lost so much weight, she needs a smaller size. I will say, the extra larges were a little loose on me, so I got some larges. The only thing I tried on that was too small was an XS mislabeled as an XL... usually some things that should fit are too tight, so that was encouraging.

I spent most of the day working on the newsletter, a very tedious but eventually satisfying activity. Trying to fit everything on four pages (really only 3; have to leave room for the address) requires editing and changing the size of everything and rearranging. Meredith was working from home preparing a presentation; she has a grant workshop this morning. So it was a little more relaxed at the office and less distracting.

Ray and I had a nice lunch and then I bought some things at Target for work: baby carrier, answering machine, milk...

We were thinking of going to Town & Gown's opening night for Carousel, but it was sold out. All four of us stayed up until 9:30 watching the spelling bee on TV--kind of nerdy fun. I think I was the first one to fall asleep.