Things have been non-optimal around here for a while, hence my lack of fannish (or any) content. I am behind on TV because of a combination of generalized work stress and a couple of specific work-related deadlines that left me feeling sort of unequipped to do much of anything mentally taxing, including write anything outside of work or process ( Read more... )

Okay, people who love Parks & Rec, I need you to level with me. I do not normally watch half-hour comedies -- in fact the only such show I have ever watched with real enjoyment is Sports Night -- but I know that this is true for some of you as well. And I have seen some charming gifsets on Tumblr, and I love sisabet's delightful vid from a few years back ( Read more... )

What I want to be doing right now:

• gardening
• vidding
• sitting on my couch with a cat on my lap

What I should be doing right now:

• writing 900 words on an important project (which, because it's me, means writing 3,000 words and then trying to find the 900 right words buried in there somewhere)
• writing 2,000 words on a different important project (see above ( Read more... )

Someday I will be done with grading! Alas, today is not that day. Nor, for that matter, is any day this week going to be that day. (I am so tired of grading. So, so tired ( Read more... )

buried under pile of student papers

send help

or chocolate

or booze

booze would be good

I mean don't get me wrong

I love these students

but seriously this is a lot of papers

who assigned them all this fucking writing

oh wait

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You guys. YOU GUYS. It is mid-November and I am not behind on my grading. I am behind on almost everything else, but NOT THIS. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS. THERE'LL BE PORK IN THE TREETOPS COME MORNING.

...and now, back to the one remaining stack of papers. \o/

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DO NOT WANT TO ADULT.

...that's it. That's all I've got.

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