Am having a very "I feel like an idiot" moment. I insist that I don't need a PDA, yet can't keep everything straight in my head..... I have a meeting tonight, am bringing cookies, just made them but they will probably fall apart by the time I get there, and just realized that nobody said who was bringing drinks. Must also run by store. Arrgh. Realized also that the whole reason I came up here was to write "with nuts" and "without nuts" labels for them, but got distracted by lure of computer instead. later that night.... I grabbed my directions, jacket, etc. and headed out the door, only to realize that I left the cookies on the countertop. Ran back, got cookies, threw everything (gently) in car, zoomed off to store because I decided to buy soda and chips to supplement cookies. Entered parking lot the wrong way and was tsked and waved at by an old lady getting into her big old boat of a car, who gestured that I had come in the wrong way and needed to turn around. I was trying to come up with a polite way to gesture that I knew that, thank you, and there was no room for me to turn around, and that she wasn't particularly helping; I settled for a shrug and a "hey, whatcha gonna do?" expression. Got stuff, paid for stuff, ran out, got to meeting just in time. Fortified myself with big deep breaths of air and a few handfuls of chips. Phew. This is the sweet part: at the meeting, I found I had been described as, "You know, Elena...she has all that amazing energy, and it just comes out of the ends of her hair like music notes." A woman next to me turned and said, "What a great painting that would make! You should illustrate it! " Y'know, I just think I might...