Caitlin started throwing up this morning. My assistant’s toddler son started throwing up this afternoon. I’m just waiting for the evening shoe to drop, so to speak.

Odd questions from (very early) this morning:
1. Does it mean you’re working too hard if you wake up in the middle of the night to pee and immediately start thinking about how you’re going to present some semi-controversial material at a meeting the next day?
2. Why does my attention wander when I’m putting on mascara? Maybe because it’s the last step in the make-up ritual and I’m bored by that point? Why do I sneeze right after putting on mascara, resulting in a sort of Clockwork Orange effect under my eyes?
3. If cars can have windshield washers and even headlight washers, why not washers for the entire car? Couldn’t you have a system that would wash the whole vehicle without having to go to a car wash? (Where the prices have risen more dramatically in the past 25 years than anything other than college tuition and a cup of coffee.)
4. When it’s still dark outside in the morning, and I’m in the shower (which has glass walls and faces out toward the window overlooking the back yard) can people really see into my bathroom? And just what were those headlights that stopped at the corner and appeared to be pointed toward my house?
5. Of all the appliances and gadgets I’ve ever bought, why I never felt any need to purchase an electric can opener? Or an electric knife, for that matter?
6. Why is the Virginia state legislature thinking about banning low-rise pants? Do they have nothing better to do?
7. Why do teachers tell kids there is no such thing as a stupid question when this is patently untrue?