ChiKat, I'm so glad you and the kitty got out of the fire. EEK!

The down side of being on prednisone? I am nowhere near sleepy and it is 2am (my time). And, I expect that by Sunday I will want to eat my own arm off.

Ah, yes. The joys. In my experience, it's best to take the prednisone first thing in the morning. Also, let yourself snack. Just give in. I know it's frustrating, but I've actually found that if I let myself give in to the cravings, they don't last as long.

Timelies, all! In Birmingham. Had a fairly lovely evening with the extended family. My cousin's soon-to-be wife is a doll. I couldn't be happier for the two of them!

In third grade or so, I used up a whole box of cornstarch doing some experiments on that sort of stuff from some kids' science activity book. (And also made a mess of the kitchen. But it was cool!)

Houston, we have a draft of section 2! This is quite amazing, since I've struggled with it for WEEKS. I'm SO THRILLED. Now to start on the conclusion section. WOOT!

The frakking gods are watching me and giggling today. After the fire Wednesday? After not being able to sleep last night due to the evil prednisone? After finally falling asleep around 6:30?

The frakking fire alarm goes off again at 8:20. I was sound asleep. Once I realized what was going on, I threw on some clothes, went to the bathroom (sorry, but some things can't wait), heard some guys in the hallway and went out to see if I really needed to evacuate before I tried to pry the very scared kitty out and shove him in his carrier again.

Turns out, no. They were inspecting the damage from Wednesday and somehow set off the alarms. Yay, no more fire! Boo, I am now wide awake. Again.

I think I'm going to go somewhere for some breakfast and then come home and do laundry. Maybe I can nap some this afternoon.

vw, YAY you on your paper!!

My goodness, ChiKat! I would imagine the last thing you needed was to hear a fire alarm. I hope you get a chance to rest later.

Go vw!!

I'm fighting with my son. Parenting sucks.

Houston, we have a draft of section 2!

Yay, VW! Sounds like scrapping the pages you had and starting fresh was definitely the right way to go.

Daniel, even if the cars are off the street, they have to be licensed? Ugh. Good luck selling the caprice.

Yay for the draft, vw!

I'm considering getting arcrylic nails for a bit to curtail my nailbiting habit. It's gotten pretty bad and my nails look hideous. Usually, if I get acrylics for a month or two, then have them removed, I can grow my own nails out without biting.

cheerios:

Chikat, I'm glad your apartment was undamaged and you're safe. Bad timing for a fire alarm test.

I've got to un-edit a paper this weekend. Don't wanna. (Basically, I made some changes, and then decided that it was better before. But I don't want to undo ALL of the changes, just some of them, so I've got to go through the old version and the new version and figure out what I need to keep from each of them. Some of this is stylistic stuff, like rearranging some sections and stuff like that, but other parts are mathematical changes, which I can't just change by cutting and pasting -- I've got to totally rewrite it.)

Apropos of nothing, I think 7th Heaven is becoming the new Law & Order. Shari can find, like, two episodes a day minimum. Seven days a week.

She's watching one right now.