brandon flowers tells me sleeping it off is a 'bitter refuge,' unfortch.

I've deleted three half-started journal entries in the last ten minutes. I'm not even going to list what they were about, because I am apparently so foul and negative I irritate myself right now. Seriously: winter and school, you need to be really really done now.

Instead, I'm going to do this, and if you felt like joining me, I'd be super happy to hear about good things about your Monday/March/life situation. Note: you get bonus points if you manage to slip in various complaints while appearing to be making a positive statement. It's a freaking life skill, yo.


Great and Awesome Things About Today : a 5 Part List that doesn't include food, shelter, safety, lack of intellectual oppression, or the fact that I'm a privileged citizen of a first world country who absolutely takes for granted her internet access

• I just downloaded like, 6 new albums (the two sexiest were from kickthebeat, bless her heart) and a bunch of the Planet Money podcasts that I need to catch up on so that I can feel better about owning zero assets that could be depreciated by global economic meltdown.
  
• I'm not working today, which means I spent the first three hours of the morning in my bathrobe. I went back to bed, twice. I could do so again if need be.
  
• My internet lecture was cancelled, so now I just have to watch vague and outdated youtube videos on enterprise content management systems instead and read some boring-ass pdfs.
  
• Brooke linked me to two of the most ridiculous AUs I have ever had the pleasure of hearing of: also, apparently they have mediocre execution, which is my favourite kind of story because then I get to feel good about myself while also enjoying other people's mindgrapes.
  
• If things get really bad, I'm going to brave the -24C/-11F + windchill weather for a bag of fucking ketchup chips (or alternately dill, if I decide I need the room temperature Old Dutch white dip to go with it).
  

That's better. I still want to spend the next month playing the Sims and reading Anne Rice, but at least in the future I'll be able to look back and appreciate my current half-hermitage with due awe at my time wasting abilities, and also self-recrimination for NOT spending the entire month playing the Sims and reading Anne Rice. Because if not now, in this final stretch of academia, THEN WHEN?