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I just bought a sandwich and came back to the office.

And now I am staring at the sandwich and don't know if I can stand the idea of eating it.

I wish I had decided to be horrifically nauseated BEFORE I spent $7.50 on lunch.

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Also: I forgot my damned cell phone today and cannot call my husband, and he usually spends some amount of time on google so I can chat-ping him, but he has not been there ALL DAY and I want to talk to him but cannot use my office phone because 3 of our 4 lines are tied up and we're not allowed personal calls on the one line reserved for incoming calls.

I am having one of those days when every irritation seems bigger than it is.

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I am currently listening to Teen Idol, by Meg Cabot, via Audible.com. I love this book, and I really like the audiobook narrator. But. That is not why I am posting.

I think Meg Cabot has a very, very warped sense of scale in towns. She is writing here about a fictional town called Clayton, Indiana. At one point she refers to the fact that the high school (grades 9-12) population is 1200. At another point, she talks about how the town is "really, really small".

The town I grew up in had a single high school with a student population of just over 500, with around 60 of those being bussed in from the local air force base. It wasn't a huge town. I always felt it was kind of a small suburb. It didn't have its own movie theater, whereas most neighboring towns did.

My husband grew up in a town where the student body of the high school is almost exactly 1200, and the population there is 30K. From what I can tell from internet research, 30K is kind of a humungous town, by Indiana standards.

This just bothers me. Every time I listen through the book, I go eye-rolly.