One can, indeed, read a paper while driving. Not highly recommended, but doable. Far better than the woman who was next to me in the bumper to bumper traffic texting: she kept texting AFTER the traffic...always here when I should be writing the paper due Monday. Though, unfortunately, I was wise enough to mostly skim the f-list and not go all that far back or I KNOW I won't get this paper done. --

So, I kind of resent at this point in my life, having to look up words that I shouldn't REALLY have to look up. Words, for example, where they've just stuck an "ism" on the end, just to mess you up. Like...way of looking at a system, kind of a best-case explanation for the unexplainable? A universal law of sorts? It can be. Isn't that religion? Umm. I think I'm thinking too hard about this stuff.

Yes, already swamped. Behind on everything, so far behind it's taking even more time just figuring out how to plan being behind so that it's making me more behinder. I have plenty of behind ;-) The course... And pick up a little ... anything to procrastinate ... Bad swamp thing. Back in your muck hole! I'm feeling the need to cook ... NO ... okay, but surely the dog needs a really long walk? Glug ..

School starts tomorrow and I feel particularly lethargic and dumb about it. Maybe it's the heat after a relatively cool summer. Maybe it's because I waited until the last minute to try to have a summer...and boys dunking each other with vengeance and no apparent realization that other people might be attempting to use the beach... BOYS! Just another week or two, that's all I really need ... Sigh.

Got up early yesterday to drive in and meet with my advisor, only to have him not make it because he was still getting into town after the FAA FOF screw up of air traffic in Atlanta. Then did a two hour...an online reader) I have seven books for classes I'm taking. And I need to be thinking about my qualifying exams which are coming up soon. I don't feel particularly motivated to do any of it.

Time to  clean the office. The courtesy call from Verizon letting me know I still have a missing payment prompted a "dig"  on my desk and lo and behold, several archaeological layers right down there about...Of It NOW things in that layer. Too late, of course, since most had dates of June on them. So now, instead of writing, I'm getting the office site cleaned up before the next round of deposition occurs

A bit less productive than I hoped to be this weekend (thanks, Chay). Went to a folklore festival for part of Saturday with a grad school friend and Mr. 11, followed by sitting on the terrace on campus... but plot movement pages. I only have about two more days before the crunch hits. Wednesday I get my class assignments so from there out it'll be working, getting up to speed (I hope) on readings, etc

We forget, sometimes, that our pets, for all the anthropomorphizing we do, are not like us. It's one of those things I have to remind people when I admit that yes, I can eat chickens I've raised. I don't...it known he was a rooster with the hens. Sigh. I still have too many roosters in the hen house. I don't WANT them, but since they were hand-raised by Mr. 11, it's not all that easy to get rid of them.

Last year, about this time, I was mowing very tall weeds and something whipped up and got me in the eye while I was wearing contacts. After much eye watering, cussing, flushing and the removal of a torn...a lot of sleepless nights and painful days (like the exam I had to take with eyes that were watering so bad I couldn't see). Persistence, I guess, pays off. But how many people are that persistent?

Suddenly as I'm posting, instead of being taken back to the thread, I'm taken to someone's Russian LJ page, lots of cyrrilic letters. Me boogie fast. Then, I click on my friends page and none of the frames...correct, but not on mine. I don't know if it's something in the view, or what, but it loaded all the frames at the end of each other down the page. Now I'm worried that I've somehow been compromised