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The other day a co-worker posted on Facebook that it had been the week from hell.

We had all felt it. It was as if a black cloud hovered over us, raining down all kinds of bad.
We had made mistakes. Tempers flared. Fingers pointed.

Cranky people called, which didn’t help our own crankiness.

We scowled. We skulked. We wished we were anywhere but here.

It was one b-a-d week.

Cleaning out my email this morning I found one I had written to a friend.

It started out: “So it was a nice, calm day at work yesterday. By the afternoon I was sitting at my desk thinking, ‘Hooray!’

“It just felt like a good day to say, ‘Hooray!’ I even posted it as my Facebook status. Hooray!”

I went on to write about how my phone rang and it was my husband: “I didn’t do it. It’s not my fault,” he said, which is never a good sign.

Each legislative session is inevitably remembered for a key issue or two, and this year’s will undoubtedly be recalled for the toughest budget most of us have seen in our lifetime and for taking a comprehensive approach on drug abuse.

There were several other high-profile issues as well, including the legislature’s latest effort to crack down on copper thefts and making sure that the interest on the sizeable federal loan for the state’s unemployment insurance fund is covered so businesses wouldn’t lose a much-needed tax credit.