Work exasperations

I am really tired of dealing with the following:
--people who come to me in a panic after submitting a high-priority tech request because they weren't really ready to have it done after all, and why was I working on it?
--people who come to me in a panic after submitting a high-priority tech request because it has to be done RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW and they submitted it TEN WHOLE MINUTES AGO, why isn't it done yet?
--people who come to me because I have not yet responded to their email (now, we do sometimes have problems with email where you don't get it til hours after it was sent, but in this case I checked and the message in question had bene sent SIX MINUTES AGO.)
--coworkers who, after finding that something automated doesn't work right, simply keep retrying it endlessly (and telling me each time that it didn't work) instead of just doing it by hand

A headless body!

Amethyst, gettig ready for a bath the other night, carefully laid her clothes out on the floor: "Look, I made a body with no head!"

It is so impressive to me that it is obvious now that she thinks about things and plans things. For example, a few days ago she was playing with a little foam airplane (one of those pill things that you soak in hot water til a shape emerges) while we were driving to daycare. She said that she was going to draw an airplane. Whne I told her about the new 800-passenger Airbus and how it was a problem becaseu it took people so long to get on and off the plane, she said that only one person should be on the plane and the others should drive instead.

We met a neighbor at the grocery store on Wednesday. She mentioned that she was pregnant "and the doctor thinks there're five". Yikes. I don't even want to think about what having quints would be like (not to mention the probable medical problems).