I am working -- I'm not at work, per se, since Air Traffic Control decided to mess with all the flights coming in to Newark yesterday and we left Tulsa about the time we should have arrived in New York.  So while lugging 50 pounds of luggage around the (mercifully working) subway at 3 in the morning it occurred to me that all I had to do today was check the emails and voice mails that came in while I was gone and I could actually get some sleep if I did that from home.  And as it turned out, there's precious little to check, and my boss is apparently sleeping in as well (I know he was on a very late flight to Newark, I can only wonder how late he actually got in) so I've actually been able to do useful things like:

• sort through two weeks of mail -- including my tax forms (the NY State book is three times as thick as the federal one for some reason), and a jury summons.  Oh joy.
• change my electricity supplier -- I will now be paying 2 cents less per kilowatt hour, whatever that means, using "green power" (no fossil fuels or nuclear plants, just water or wind generated energy), paying no state taxes, and getting a $25 rebate on my third bill.  I only wish I'd thought to do this sooner, it was so easy. 
  
• file a complaint about the heat in my apartment with the city.  I'm tired of waking up with a cold nose, and even more tired of my landlord blowing me off every time I try to tell him it's too cold.  It's probably going to piss him off, which might be a bit unpleasant since he lives across the hall, but he can either 1) evict me, which he can't legally do, but I'd let him since I could move out without having to pay the rent for the rest of the lease or 2) fix the heat for the next 4 months, shortly after which I will move out and he can go back to cheating the next tenant. 
  

(Interestingly, as I type this the radiator, which had been cooling for the last hour in keeping with the "on for an hour, off for three" pattern just heated up again, so I wonder if they've already informed him of my complaint.)

Anyway, I really didn't want to come back from my vacation -- the longer I live here, the more I realize I'm a warm weather girl, and boy was it warm while I was home.  Unfortunately that means the entire state is about to be engulfed by flames, but it was nice for those two weeks.  It's really too bad you can't trade weather around like you can trade energy or pollution credits -- California could send their rain to Oklahoma, Oklahoma could send the warm dry weather to New York, and California could have real winter weather, you know, just for a change of pace. 

I'm also charging up my new Roomba, which is sitting over in the corner of my living room, pulsating its little light like ET's heart.  It has to charge for 16 hours the first time, though, so I'll have to post any thoughts on its actual cleaning abilities at a later date.

I guess while I'm here I should take down all that NaNoWriMo decor as well.  I am going to go back to the novel I started (it's my most important resolution), and while holidays and subsequent illness kept me from a strong finish, I'm glad I did it.  I might do it next year if I have a good plot at the ready come November.