Better

[redbird]

Both cattitude and I have been feeling grumpy this evening, so we were screening calls: I didn't want to deal with another pollster, or another attempt to get me to change my telephone service.

I was glad to talk to adrian_turtle, who I've been missing while she's away on business. (Yes, I miss my long-distance sweeties more when they're away from their own homes, and not just because they're less likely to turn up on IM or email--it's that there's comfort to knowing that they're in the places I'm used to visiting them, riding the usual trains, eating at the usual ice cream places, and so on.) I sympathized with her, stuck in the middle of Las Vegas without enough books; she laughed enough that I hope and think I cheered her up as much as she did me.