When I enter periods of intense work -- as I have lately -- my diet goes all to hell. If vegetables aren't in an easy form like in a frozen dinner, or in a salad someone else put together, I might not get any.

No wonder my lips are chapped and I feel weird. I know I'm missing vitamins.

But a little pressure's off now. The attorney got all the papers needed, so the thing I'm defending has proceeded. We had to file something the other day. When I talked to the attorney last night he sounded like the pressure was off him too now that a big part of his work was done, and it sounded like maybe he'd had a few drinks.

I would never be a lawyer. Having to argue for this or that and justify crap all day, every day. There's already this lawyer in my head trying to defend me all the time and he's quite enough.