Things I have done recently.

1. Handed over my busted computer to the good people at HP. No word yet on how much it's going to cost to fix the screen. The running estimate is between $200 and $1000. Thank god I'm being given extra shifts at work this month.

2. I went skating. At work. With all the kids. Working at a preschool is a ton of fun, but can be very tiring. Trying to keep two toddlers from falling on their faces is one example of how it can be tiring.

3. Handed in this goddamn essay I've been working on for the past month or so. I'm moderately happy with it, though frustrated by the page limit. A month and a half worth of research cannot be condensed into 20 double-spaced pages. Anyway, it's nice to have it over with and be able to relax again.

4. Went out to a bar on Friday with some people for the first time in a month. Then I went out again on Tuesday. It's expensive but I really needed to get out of the house.

5. Answered like a gajillion wallposts and emails that have been piling up over the last month. I've been so focused on my report. It was pretty bad.

6. Started listening to a lot of Tom Waits and Fiona Apple. A-gorram-mazing.

7. Memorized the length and breadth of Tiger Tiger. Next on my list is Xanada. I don't know the authors of either of those, because I never know authors, but I do know that I want to learn them from back to front. I even learned the word in Japanese that means "recitation from memory." They, conveniently, have a single verb for it. Good people, the Japanese.

Tomorrow is my gym day. I haven't actually been in more than a month. It's quite bad. I'm going to go every day this week, protestations from my body be damned.

Anyway, the library's closing for the day. Time to head home and eat and bathe and then sleep the sleep of the dead.