Hey, Herdlers. Emily Abadi here, bringing you another episode of Five Minute Friday, which is actually never really only five minutes, but you get the gist from hurdle.

I'm having a really good day, despite things not going entirely as planned, I would say.

If you're new to this segment, let me just make sure you know how things go here.

I'm going to tell you this story. I'm going to offer you a thought prompt to take you into the weekend.

And then I'm going to share with you my highlights of the

week, some content picks, some things that I think you should check out that I am digging at the

moment. Okay, so the story, this morning, I had a OBGYN appointment, my annual, trying to check off all of my general exams at the beginning

of the year as safe as possible. I had my appointment scheduled for 11 a.m. My OB is about like

just under two miles north of my apartment in central Harlem.

And I was already kind of having a day at around 10 a.m. and decided that it could be a good

idea for me to walk there. I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and listen to one of

Apple Fitness Plus the new Time to Walk episodes. So that is exactly what I plan to do. So I

laced up my sneakers. I got outside. It was definitely brisk at 30 degrees, I think. And I started

walking and I got out there. I'm on my way. I realized that I'm going to get there at like 10.55, even though

they say get their 15 minutes early in my head. I'm thinking, you know what? I always

get there 15 minutes early. I never go in until at least 15 minutes after the hour. Like, I'm just

going to get there five minutes before. It's going to be fine. I get to my destination. It's five

minutes before 11. And I try to ring the buzzer and no one answers. Luckily, at this point,

a man and his two sons,

they're walking out from the dentist's office that happened to be right there. So they push

open the gate. I go in. I go through a couple of doors to the place where the office has been

for years, where my appointment was confirmed for, and see that the door is locked. And in fact,

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