Forgot to post for Monday night, so this news is a little stale, but whatever. Monday after work I was once again supposed to do battle with my paper pile, looking for tax info. Instead? I engaged in a rare indulgence – clothing shopping.

, you MUST come with me to Pam Chorley’s ‘Fashion Crimes’ on Queen Street next time you visit!!! Britney shops there when she’s in town, and I think you would melt at the broad expanse of pretty clothing and glittering jewelry, hairpins, tiaras, etc. It’s also less than a block away from MAC.

Speaking of Ms.Spears, I bought a fetching chapeau that takes a note out of her stylebook: fuzzy pink angora newsboy, to make its public debut at the Snail this Saturday when I spruce myself up for V-Day. There will be chocolate and champers for my fellow staff, also.

Later Monday night, I was graced by the presence of Doctor Aly, who popped by my house and took me out for a mammoth mug of hot chocolate at Future’s on Bloor. We swapped hot place vacation stories and got caught up from December.

I also got an email from my ex, Alex, who informed me he’s just passed his level 2 comps and is now rampaging along with his PhD special comps prep. This is very good news, as it makes it ever more likely that soon he will be Doctor Willis. I have been seized by the feverish craving to return to school and get Doctorified myself. All the cool kids are doing it. Might start looking at York’s program, just to see what sort of funding I could get, and how their applications process works…

And that was Monday.