Yes, Jesse, you should go home. Everyone should take the day off. I approve wholeheartedly of such a scheme.

I vote for Kat for leader!

I am very glad Jessica didn't have to kill anyone to have clean and dry clothes.

Yes, Jesse, you should go home. Everyone should take the day off. I approve wholeheartedly of such a scheme.

Yay!

At least now I have a Tootsie Pop.

Jesse, why is your toe bleeding?

Paul Weller was the lead singer of The Jam and the Style Council and has had a long solo career as well. Total English mod icon.

So here's my good news. I sent my introduction to the book to my editor. (Being as how it's a small book and a long introduction, it comprises about 1/20th of the entire thing.)

He replied:

I love it! Consider my appetite well and truly whetted.

And I'm happy with the introduction too and was feeling all saucy about it. And then I went back and looked at the rest of what I'd written which has not yet received as much massaging and revising and...it's nowhere near as good as the intro. Ugh. I can make it better, but it's very deflating. I started to feel Almost Doneish, but instead I have much work yet.

Yes, Jesse, you should go home. Everyone should take the day off. I approve wholeheartedly of such a scheme.

Yes, please.

Jessica, I'm thrilled to hear you finally got your washer/dryer taken care of.

Yesterday and the day before:

8:30 A.M., arrive at work
8:30 P.M., leave work

Today: 8:30 A.M, arrive at work

I'm not saying I don't appreciate the symmetry, but if I'm still here at 8:30 tonight I'ma have to choke a bitch.

Well, I'm back from SF and seem to have found an awesome place to live, which is good. Now I just have to secure movers. And, you know, pack. Ugh.

In other news, somewhere along the way, my anxiety dreams seem to have shifted from running around trying to find the classroom to take my exam in, to running around trying to find a place to photocopy the exercises I need for teaching that day. I can only guess that one day soon I'll be running around looking for the Chicago Manual of Style.

I'm not saying I don't appreciate the symmetry, but if I'm still here at 8:30 tonight I'ma have to choke a bitch.

Seriously.

Jesse, why is your toe bleeding?

New shoes I wore Wednesday plus a lack of sufficient band-aids at my house. It's fine, really.

Well, I'm back from SF and seem to have found an awesome place to live, which is good.

YAY! What neighborhood?? And when do you go?

YAY! What neighborhood?? And when do you go?

It turns out that a friend of a friend has an awesome deal on a two-bedroom in West Portal (best described by Hec as "an interesting neighborhood caught somewhere between 1955 and gentrification"). His roommate moved out in the fall and he didn't really need to look for another but was willing to consider it because of my friends. He seems really laid back and easy to get along with, but I figure even if it doesn't work out, it will give me time to figure out something else. The rent is less than I pay here!!

I'm shooting to have my stuff picked up at the end of the month and getting to SF around the weekend of June 9-10th.

I just had to run into the backyard to rescue Chumley, who had either fallen or jumped out of the (first floor) window I accidentally left open. In the middle of a thunderstorm... so he was wet and miserable, but still tried to get away when I went to pick him up because Cats Must Be Free. Now he's locked onto the back porch (with all the windows safely closed) to think about his crimes and also to dry off a bit before I let him run free in the house. He was both sopping and dirty from all the dirt under the porch, etc.....