Tom is Away

hoping that long work days tomorrow and thursday will finally bring this damn book to an end.

a sign that you may not be doing well in your Analytical Reading & Writing course:

After seeing your grade for the semester, you still feel compelled to send an email to your teacher with the subject line, “Did I pass?”

done working for the day.

Troy Vincent says Sheldon Brown won’t cause any problems.

Getting this game. soon.

editing for the next several hours. deadline looming.

Someone owes the country a big apology for deciding to air a 3-hour episode of “Celebrity” Apprentice. And the people who watched all 3 hours owe an apology to someone (themselves?)

I guess I’m not officially on summer vacation until I deal with all the “why is my grade so low??” emails.

racing toward the end of deadwood season 3

mother’s day lunch with mom.

possibly dropping the AIM pretense of this whole website? It seems easily and more sensible to avoid that. Although for reasons I can’t exactly explain I’m still opposed to making this a twitter thing.

I’m unavailable at the moment.

spending $100 to download a partial map of ireland on my gps. somehow i feel like i’m losing out on this deal.

back on AIM, which isn’t really all that exciting, except to say that my away message site is no longer a liar

I’ll be right back.

pre-mother’s day (as in Before Mother’s Day, not a Day for Pre-Mothers) dinner with about 75% of the people who read this site.

editing.

cooking dinner, then setting up my new laptop. messing with that for most of the night, most likely.

Sam Rayburn charged with a felony

back to work on the book.