The Michigan Legislature might put an across-the-board workplace smoking ban on the ballot next year:

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090422/POLITICS02/904220443/Michigan+bill+would+put+smoking+ban+on+ballot

I hope they do and I hope it passes.  The bill would ban smoking from ALL places where people work, including bars, restaurants, and casinos.  I loathe smoking, and I don't see why there should be exceptions for bars and casinos.  Less than a quarter of the population smokes.  Why should the 75% of us that don't smoke have to put up with their exhalations?  They don't need it to live.  It's not a handicap, nor is it a special circumstance.  They can smoke outside or on their own property, not in a place where someone has to work eight or ten hours a day.

I'm still not sleeping.  I fall asleep with difficulty, then wake up a bit later and can't get back to sleep.  Dreams are restless.  I know why it is.  September is always a difficult month, and I'm still coming off an extremely stressful summer.  I don't get stress symptoms during stressful situations; I get them afterward.  Since the stress was drawn out over several months, it only makes sense that the come-down would be drawn out as well.

At any rate, because I'm not sleeping, I'm getting sick a lot.  Like ellameena has been going through, I've been having low-grade crappiness, and last night, I was feeling even worse.  And then I couldn't sleep again and woke up feeling horrible.  So I called in today and made a doctor's appointment.

(As an aside, I'm interested in seeing when I get back what happened in my absence.  The school still assigned a sub, but did R--, my intern, take over most of everything?  If so, how'd she do?  I really want to know.)

The doctor gave me a prescription for sleeping meds designed to get sleeping properly but not be a long-term crutch, which is what I wanted. 

Afterward, I went out for breakfast.  So there!