It turns out...

1) Many loud and strange people ride the bus.
2) A sinus infection can feel exactly like a toothache.
3) Sentences like, "Yeah - no, we're not doing that," just roll out of my mouth like gumballs from a nickel machine. Where did this person come from? For years I was other people's Backup Boss. Now I'm a professional Substitute Boss, and the first time, I remember taking a deep breath and feeling self-consciously weird, like every word out of my mouth was ponderous and unnatural, and everybody knew I was a big fat faker who didn't know what the hell to do, but they were too polite to say so. It appears, on the third go-round, I may or may not be a big fat faker, but I am definitely no longer self-conscious about it.
4) Enrico makes really good banana cinamon pancakes, which must be the best food in the world for a sinus infection that feels like a toothache.

That is all.