Right. So I'm supposed to be doing all these things for school (pronounced "writing a thesis"), and I'm behind schedule and getting just a wee bit stressed out. My usual system for dealing with stress is to procrastinate a lot like always, but to do it while using what I like to think of as my "I'm not actually here right now" userpic:
Mad props to
jazkharma for providing the image way back in the day (2004); it has served me well until now. Trouble is, see, it went and got to actually be 2008, so "try back in 2008" doesn't imply quite the same frantically sequestered condition anymore.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why
vruba has manfully accepted the challenge to make me a new userpic to go with my new state of desperation:
Right. Well, back to work. I'm, uh, studying. Try back in May.