I need ALL THE COFFEE even though it's 1 pm. The pollen count is stupid high (though apparently not as high as it's going to get later this week, oh joy), and the predominant types of pollen are the ones that I'm violently allergic to.

I am so full of antihistamines that you would need a prescription to drink my blood. And I am therefore sleepy and dopey from all the antihistamines.

Please no one drink my blood. Thanks.

I have written a quiz -- it took two hours, of which about an hour and a half was spent trying to remember how LaTeX works and getting it set up right with the right packages downloaded on my new work computer. At least I actually can download stuff here -- at my old university, we weren't given admin passwords, so if we wanted anything installed on our work-issued computers, we had to get IT to do it, which would usually take a day or two. Now I need to write up notes for class for tomorrow, read over what I'm supposed to be covering in my other class, make a ton of copies, answer a bunch of student emails, read through a draft of a midterm, and probably a few other things.

Probably the best way to avoid Drama is to just not engage him on the oppression of bikes issue, and if asked just note that you have differing opinions and you're done debating them.

My DH is an avid biker and he totally agrees that comparisons between bikers and societal oppression based on identity really don't stand up to scrutiny.

I have had really bad sleep the last two nights because our big goofball labradoodle, Chet, has had bad diarrhea. He wakes me up every two hours to go out. I'm glad he does so, but it does not make for a restful night. I gave him rice for dinner and he's fasting today, so we'll see if things improve.

Probably the best way to avoid Drama is to just not engage him on the oppression of bikes issue, and if asked just note that you have differing opinions and you're done debating them.

That's what I'm trying to do. I'm not always too good at that sort of thing.

Mmmm, forbidden Teppy blood.

LaTex, I remember that being a PITA. But pretty. ETA: 25 years ago when we had to log into the mainframe to use it. I'm sure it's better now. And I am old.

Aw, poor Chet and Scrappy. That's rough.

I am writing equations in LaTeX right now AIFG. Well, compared to the alternative.

LaTeX is kind of a pain in that I can never remember how to do stuff when I haven't done it in a while, so I have to keep looking up things like "How to I make these equations left-justified rather than centered?" or "How do I insert an image file?" because none of those things really work the way I'd expect them to. (Seriously, LaTex REALLY wants you to have all your equations centered rather than left-justified. Every way that I've seen to make them left-justified is some kind of work-around, where you exploit some function that was meant to do something else. There is no way to just say "left-justify this.")

Aw, poor Chet and poor Scrappy! I hope he feels better.

Well, we always center-justified our equations, Hil. It's obviously better. (We really did, but I think it was because we didn't care that much). I think it might be time for lunch. Because cupcakes are at noon (every time I think that I want to turn it into some kind of Darkness at Noon spoof. Perhaps with muppets. Not that I have read Darkness at Noon, I think I actually am picturing Murder in the Cathedral, which I have only read excerpts of. But why let that stop me?)

Man, I'm chatty today.