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I'm not grumpy cause of the weekend, i'm grumpy 'cause it's over.

Had a lovely weekend with imtboo, which involved not-leaving-the-house for quite some time, even when we'd both planned to go do writing. I have no regrets there. Had a great time at the Cabaret and the Sunset Bowl with blackwingedboy and beckyb and R and of course the lovely imtboo who looks at me like I'm hot at the moments when I'm making the silliest jokes. Hmm....

Today, on the other hand:

• gmail just went down
• livejournal is more fun than actual research
• Advisor is wondering if I should postpone my defense by a week or two
• I am starting to wonder if I should

I think I need to break my research down into very very small pieces. And do one.

And get the heck off the internet, for at least a few hours.

writing, typing, typography

gmail is down.

i'm at the lab at ten to eight, wondering if i should go out to get yakisoba while i write.

I'm very proud of myself today: I broke the block I was in, and I wrote three subsections of background. My hope is to take advantage of this momentum and actually finish a draft of the background chapter tonight (!)

I spent two hours today running down problems wtih bank transfers, and there seems to be something weird about my entire X session right now -- it keeps freezing firefox. And XMMS won't start. It's like the whole computer has bent itself on "no distractions for you".

but -- haha! I have found distractions aplenty. Among other things fished out of the P section of the stacks, I found Phonetic Symbol Guide by Geoffrey Pullum and William Ladusaw. It's like a little dictionary with a funny letter on each page. I love it. The introduction (available through Google Print) is fun for typography geeks like me.