Diffused Illumination

I have had the music from that damned chocolate river ad head stuck in my head all morning.

It's definitely not helping my brain, which is bordering on meltdown with severe final project procrastination & starting a medical terminology class today. Not a wise conjunction but with scheduling I had no choice in the matter. Whee!

Due to an interesting confluence of events, I have almost a full hour to myself in my house with nobody around. I haven't been completely by myself since Dallas a month ago, in our house for.. uh... maybe sometime in the spring? That's just the way a family works.

I have the couch, a fleece blanket, a Diet Dr. Pepper, a bay window with surprising views of blue sky and am settling in to read...

The American Public Library and the Problem of Purpose.

I have to submit a rough draft for our group mediagraphy project by tonight.

Ah well, at least it's a holiday weekend...

5:20 PM edit: hahaha DONE & submitted with no need to edit again, it's final. Woot!

Welcome to dinner tonight, lunch & dinner tomorrow, and breakfast at 4f'ing30am on Sunday. If I'm going to be a grad student, I might as well eat like one once in a while.

In other news, SWEEEEEEEP!!!!! I got back from class just in time for the last few innings online & I can't tell you how excited I am that they made it past the first round playoff of doom!

Currently Dallas is overrun by OU students in town for the Big Game against UT. I have accepted a dare from a Sooner friend of mine to wear red on the UT Southwestern campus tomorrow & I'll take a pic to prove it next to the UT seal on the wall. We'll see if I get any sleep tonight and/or survive tomorrow. For now, it's back to the books.

I've been a graduate student for a month as of today. Thanks to a mini-invasion of moisture ants the past few days, we still have yet to have a 'normal' week for over a month and won't at this rate until around October 25th with more Texas, a conference and midterm papers (oh my).

Two very important things I've learned:

1. My laptop held outward is an awesome flashlight for walking down a hall and up the stairs as it's powering down, shutting off exactly when I get to the end table I put it on upstairs.

2. I have completely sold out to Thomson. I have stronger feelings for EndNote X than any sane person should, in addition to a horrible bias for Expanded Academic ASAP since it exports citations to EndNote although it always puts the journal name as a note.

Every old INXS fan will know exactly where that came from.

This morning I didn't feel like singing for my husband the completely inappropriate song that was stuck in my head as I went through airport security in Dallas (Guns in the Sky) when there was an issue with the woman in front of me.

I got my old live CD, handed it to Kieran to stick in the stereo (he doesn't get to touch my Zen Nano) and once the audience noise turned into music he totally rocked out. He's listened to some INXS studio albums before, but never had this instant spaz dance reaction before to them.

Apparently all the concerts I went to back in the day rocked me to the core more than I thought. I'm not sure I'll ever admit to him how I almost passed out from delight at touching Michael H's hand at the front of the Warfield though *swoon*

Also, this was me in Texas. I was dead in the water for part of class one day due to outlet competition and was EXTREMELY cranky about it. Next trip: my spare extension cord surge protector. Plugging straight in the outlet with a thunderstorm felt like unprotected sex with a hooker. It would be my pleasure to provide a safe sex group orgy in comparison!

No doubt about it.

It's currently 60 degrees, I'm wearing my fleece & am a happy camper.

24 hours from now I'll board a plane to AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL SOAR ABOVE THE CENTURY MARK AGAIN TODAY AND FRIDAY...WITH HEAT INDICES TOPPING OUT BETWEEN 105 AND 108 DEGREES. AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE... MORNING LOWS FRIDAY WILL NOT DROP BELOW 78 DEGREES IN THE ADVISORY AREA.

Yeehaw. Been nice knowing everyone.