Ah thanks for commiserating my friends. I finished up the grading a little before and was in bed by midnight and up again at 6:30. So not quite enough sleep, but I hear there was a round of musical beds I missed out on last night. Thank you, Cody.

Today I get to work from home, grading and laundry and a quick trip to the store to get Franny more smoothie powder. She's decided she likes making them and drinking them, so why not let her.

And yes, still sending get-well-soon~ma to Sox's DH and Rebecca's brother

I just typoed Escalations as Escalatinos, and now I'm in love with this Tino-blaming typo.

Escalatinos: when office shenanigans veer wildly out of control.

I like the first pair of boots, and the Anya boots.

Matt, I like the distressed wood headboard best of all.

As far as the kiddo debate goes, I call my step son killed all the time, and no matter how old my former students are, I called them today also. My dad called me kiddo, my grandma called me get out, any other person can call me kiddo and I have no problem with it. Now, if I were in a professional situation and someone called me kiddo, I would be very offended and I would address it immediately.

ION, I am adulting this week like an adult who adults. Lots of laundry done, lots of straightening up of the disaster that is the dining room table, which is covered with assortments of mail and...stuff, deep cleaning the kitchen and bathroom.

Later today I'm going to go get my license renewed at the DMV, and if it doesn't rain I'm going to mow our ginormous backyard, plant my narcissus bulbs, and then I am going to attack our financials.

I finished up the grading a little before and was in bed by midnight and up again at 6:30.

Yikes -- more than one day of that would kill me.

Yeah, I can do one night of short sleep (I am often quite chipper on 5 hours, I think it's a sleep-cycle thing) but the next night have to get 8 hours. ...perhaps it's best I don't have kids.

I need to have a lot of adrenaline pumping to keep up a schedule like that, and then I crash hard. It's not pretty at any point.

Yesterday was too easy, today my customers are all asserting their special snowflake status. Evil Bunny Alliance tea is taking the edge off, thank goodness. ETA: effectively saving me from hitting the Halloween candy, which is pretty impressive.

Ugh, I've already had two handfuls of sugar today. Not the best, self!

Edit: And by "handfuls of sugar," I mean one of candy corn and one of swedish fish.

For about a year I have been pretty strict with shutting off my computer at 10PM. I start between 6 and 7 in the morning and just had to make some kind of rule for stopping and unwinding. I still find myself slipping from time to time, but I try and remind myself that there has to be a line drawn. I still sometimes find myself reading or watching tv for an hour or two, but trying to prioritize the whole sleep time thing. It is harder than one would think. My favorite day is coming up soon. Love that extra hour, but resent losing it again in the Spring.