My section (of 3 other people) took me out to lunch today for "admin professionals day," so after all my whining about feeling left out of Giant Mutuant Flower Arrangement Giving at work, I got something that surprised me by being alot of fun. I chose Max's, where I always have the same thing: turkey pastriami Reuben, YUM. 50% of the group is in a jazz dance class with a professional show coming up in June, so we talked about that, then compared notes on our remaining ailing & aging parents and discussed which ones were considering suicide before catastrophic body/mind failure (and which ones of us agreed with that philosophy), and movies, because we're all movie magazine freaks. It cheered me up. I like conversations like that. Good times. I need to send them a thank email.