Oct. 25, 2007

Feeling a little peaked? Energy level fizzling? It can only mean one thing: You haven't had your recommended daily dose of Britney Spears. So grab that extra-large Frappuccino and gulp down the latest:

• The lip-plumping, hit-and-run trial-avoiding sideshow turned up at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Wednesday to attend a court-mandated co-parenting class with Kevin Federline, whom she has seen only a handful of times since their union imploded in November 2006. "Britney is actually really

  Britney shows off her new lips during a stop at Starbucks in Malibu, Calif., on Oct. 20. (X17Online.com)

  excited about seeing Kevin," a mole told Us before the tête-à-tête. "She sees this as the first step in them getting along for the sake of the kids." Added another chatty insider to People, "She's not nervous, she's actually looking forward to it." That positive outlook didn't last long, however. According to TMZ.com, Britney was seen "bawling like a baby in the bathroom" shortly after she arrived. Thankfully, her mood soon perked up and the two-hour meeting ended up going "amazingly well." One purported reason for the counseling session success: The former Mrs. K-Fed "liked being around" her ex.

• Perhaps Britney was just feeling a mite emotional due to an uneven sleep schedule. The up-with-Spears snappers at photo agency X17 noticed a box of prescription medication in her open purse as she drove up to the hotel for the confab in her white convertible Mercedes. The packaging read Provigil, which, according to our extensive pharmaceutical research (translation: we looked it up on Wikipedia) is a "wakefulness promoting agent" often used to treat narcolepsy. It's also said to boost alertness and reduce "excessive daytime sleepiness." An M.D. tells Us the drug can't be abused, explaining, "This medication won't give you a 'high,' like a stimulant would."

• Meanwhile, is Britney's concentration flagging during her supervised visits with sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1? TMZ and Us say a report filed by the court-appointed monitor this week probably won't do much to help her bid to regain joint custody. Among the criticisms: Brit completely

  Britney driving with her two sons in Malibu, Calif., on Sept. 30. (X17Online.com)

  tuned out the overseer. "[Spears] paid her [monitor] no attention or respect at all, as if she were some employee whom she could blow off," a snitch maintains to the magazine. "Britney's often distracted and in her own world when she has the kids and has a hard time focusing ... She is adamant that she doesn't have to listen to anybody -- that it's her way or the highway." The filing is also said to accuse her of occasionally wandering off from the kids and the monitor and spending oodles of time chatting on the phone and changing from one (execrable) ensemble to another. Spears did get hands-on with her tykes this week, with snappers catching her -- along with an unidentified woman believed to be a monitor -- pulling them around in a wagon, albeit while wearing mommy-unfriendly boots and a minidress.

• While it's hard to put a price on the humiliation suffered by the background hoofers who were part of the Hindenburg-sized disaster that was Britney's

  Britney performs at the VMAs on Sept. 9. (John Shearer/WireImage.com)

  VMA performance, they would settle for the amount originally promised, according to Us. "The dancers were paid for the actual show and some of the rehearsals, but not all of them," says a source. The fickle finger of blame is currently pointing at Spears' former management company, which dropped her soon after her galumphing "Gimme More" debacle. Seems the agency typically handled pesky tasks like paying the little people.

• And finally, has Brit watched one too many reruns of "The Simpsons"? Star is convinced she's downing a concoction that sounds suspiciously like a "Flaming Homer," mixing Diet Sprite, prescription-strength cough syrup and other assorted goodies. No word on whether fire indeed makes it good.

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