So. I think I'm finished with the paper. Both answers aren't as good as I want them to be (even I can see this, and I'm far from remembering how actually one should write a 750 words answers to questions, that should not contain one single equation), but I won't be able to make them any better in any time frame that is humanly possible (they're due today, and it's 7:30pm). I'm going to leave them aside for a while, not think about either of them, try to work do womething else, and then give them a good read, and send them out. Then, I'll sigh in relief. Then, of course, I'll remember how crazily behind I am on actual work, but that will only happen after the sigh of relief, which didn't happen yet.

And now, the tenses are confusing me. Oh, well.

[Edit: 4+3+1=8]

A little late, but since I wasn't around yesterday --

Happy Birthdays, Micole and Victor!

A local high school has a "graffiti shed" that's visible from the road. Every now and then, the shed is whitewashed, and the graffiti start again. A lot of very affecting comments showed up last summer when a student died of -- meningitis, I think it was.

That boa picture of Casper reminds me of one of the cutest Halloween costumes from the kids at my old job. This little toddler, dressed as a movie star -- big sunglasses, boa, shiny outfit -- being pushed in a stroller. Somehow the stroller just made the outfit. Like, she was so fancy, she didn't even need to walk herself!

That cake freaks me out. I would not be inclined to eat anything any animal had already gotten to, pet or no.

I slept ridiculously late this morning. Which makes me happy right now, but I will be less happy when I have to be at work at 10 tomorrow morning.

Things I need to do today:

• Fold the laundry I did on Friday
• Start another load of laundry, if the laundry room isn't busy
• vacuum, vacuum, vacuum
• dust, dust, dust
• Dishes
• File the pile of papers on my desk, so I have room to do my taxes

Things I've accomplished so far:

OK, am I the only one who thought that the "accomplished" item in Tom's post was whitefonted?

Time to go re-read my paper and be brave enough to mail it to the professor.

Go Nilly, go! Send that email!

Go Tom, go! Clean that house!

I should be doing homework, so as to catch up/get ahead in my school reading. This is so unlike me as to be nearly impossible, but I'm going to give it a shot. I think I might go sit in my sunny yellow bedroom, so as not to be distracted by the tv and computer. Maybe later.

And my grandmother told me it would be a sin not to watch the Pats in the Super Bowl tonight, so I guess I'll have to do that later.

Megan, you are a sculptor right? Cause I don't believe just anyone could make rats that realistic.

Things I need to do today:

Clean my sty.
Laundry
Cook something for the week's lunches

It's not going well. I haven't even gotten the dog out yet. How did it get to be one o'clock?

Sent the e-mail.

I hate it when the work I do is not as well as it should be, and I know I could have done better. But not under the time constraints (definitely not with how sick I was last week). So there was no other choice, really. But still. Oh, I could make my head go like that all evening long. I'll have to go and do something else, instead, then, and convince the sieve to put itself into that.

[Edit: 4*3=2*6, and of course 6 is twice 3 and 4 is twice 2 and numbers are fun.]

I would not be inclined to eat anything any animal had already gotten to, pet or no.

You're one of those non-pet-kissers, aren't you?

Try and not violate the right of way rules.

No, I totally could, since only disregarding stop and go signals is a leading cause of traffic collisions.