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My own birthmonth and namesake has been rather hard on me, giving credence to that famous line: April is the cruelest month. Where’s the love, people?!

First of all, the company for which I work is experiencing a massive brain drain. In the span of just one week, three key people (all in leadership roles) began their exits, and as of today three more key people (not leaders this time, but go-to people with a lot of knowledge) gave notice as well. So I suspect that there will be… oh, I don’t know… just a tad bit more work for me to do in the coming weeks.

Second, I’ve been sick the entire month. Yes, the entire month. One consolation is that the symptoms were ever-changing, which gave me a variety of diversions. It helped to keep me from getting too bored with either blowing my nose until it chapped and fell off or coughing up a lung or two.

The last few weeks of being sick were a coughing-wheezing hell, though. It got to the point where H.E. began calling me Camille, and I began calling him Screwyou. Yesterday, I finally managed to see a doctor, and she prescribed for me some antibiotics and a cough syrup with codeine, which not only supresses my coughs but puts a loopy, sleepy smile on my face.

Third… it’s difficult for me to admit this, but…

In March, I was feeling smug about being listed fourth on Google for a search on “April.” Throughout the month of April, though, I’ve managed to disappear entirely from the face of Google’s green earth. It’s true; I looked through 95 search result pages (and would have looked even further if Google had let me), and I could not for the life of me find my damn site on there. Damn! Damn! Damn!

Many, many thanks go to all the web sites out there that actually date their entries April something or other, therefore stealing all my thunder. Or to all the web sites that chose to discuss April Fool’s Day, linking to various other sites that detail the history of April Fool’s Day, or Fish Day, or Earth Day, or Tsunami Awareness Month, or what have you.

I thought about campaigning to Google-bomb the search engines so that I’d be a top find for “april” again, but hell… if I don’t show up in the first 95 pages, I just don’t see how that will work anyway. I’m crushed. I’m totally crushed.

However, there have been a few of bright points this month, the latest one being a friendly e-mail regarding this site, which only serves as a reminder that despite everything I am still a goddess of love.