Oh so evilly lazy, today

I am so damned caught up in "The Big Over Easy."  I was waiting with bated breath (or possibly 'baited breath' as I haven't brushed my teeth, yet) for Mary Mary to live up to her reputation of being quite contrary, and it took until page 201.  When that was settled I was finally able to put it down.  Needless to say, I don't think I'll be writing any letters, today.  I need to write letters to my Dad and Teena, at the very least, and my brothers, too, and then I'm sure there's a few of you who I owe letters to as well.  I so suck at letters.  bravecows has told me that I don't, but I feel that I do. 

Meanwhile.  eor cleaned the pots and pans last night and they're all so shiny I feel as though cooking on them would be a crime. 

(One of my co-workers was searching a bag the other day - and this is why I like working in checked baggage; there aren't passengers around to observe you being foolish - she pulled out a Disney book with slick (shiny) pages and went, "Look, I have a shiny book!  Do you want me to read to you from my shiny book!?"  And she actually wrote on resolution paperwork "shiny book," so I followed suit later and wrote "shiny magazines" on my own. :))

I'm just so unbelievably appalled that I really feel I must mention this

A co-worker of mine has been sick for like 6 or 8 months and his doctor couldn't figure it out for a long time, but he finally has.  Eight months ago he had his wisdom teeth out, and his dentist never did any follow up on the extractions.  He got an infection and it's now in his jaw.  Now he's going to have - well, I'm not sure if it's only the next molar forward, so four all together, but at least four more teeth out.  And his insurance has refused to pay to have false ones made. 

I insisted he has a malpractice case, but he says he's been told that he can't prove he didn't already have this infection before having the teeth out.  Another co-worker pointed out that if he did the dentist who did the extractions should have noticed.  Co-worker A says he's just too lazy to bother, and I said, "No, you're too emotionally and physically drained from being sick for EIGHT MONTHS." 

The poor guy has been written up numerous times for calling in sick so often even though he was obviously sick as a dog.  That right there is a lot of emotional strain - it sucks that he has a record at work of being a slacker when he really was fighting illness nearly every day he WAS at work.