My first day back at the office passed quickly and uneventfully. By all accounts everyone was fine at home, although Julia asked after me, Genevieve chose not to sleep too much, and Shannon had to deal with a power outage just as everyone was "wakin' up," as Julia says. I got pretty well back into the swing of things right away, cutting my 130 emails down to just 10 or so by the end of the day, thanks to a highly-caffeinated binge of deleting, responding, and filing. In fact, apart from missing the girls terribly, the day's only glitch was forgetting my bike lock. Carleton being Carleton, I was able to just lean my bike in its usual spot on the stand and retrieve it when it was time to go home.


