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.

Poor guy.

Yeah. I need to remember that just because I'm feeling anguish about causing someone else anguish, it doesn't change the fact that the reasons behind choosing the candidate that we did are sound. Also, that what I told him was true: that he was one of the very top few candidates among 87 applicants for the job, and that it was a very tough decision. That I will gladly recommend him for other jobs and even help seek other openings out. Though all of that seems like a bunch of lies when all you're hearing is, "You didn't get the job."

Anyway, thanks. I finished the last season of K&P. I'm going to miss that show! I also got my bangs trimmed into a more severe, straight-across, symmetrical style yesterday, which were proclaimed to be "rad" by the receptionist at the hair salon. Now that my bangs are so symmetrical, I'm noticing that the rest of my face? head? is not. I'm just going to have to make peace with that.

For about a year I have been pretty strict with shutting off my computer at 10PM.

I really need to figure out how to make myself do this.