i need to go out to dinner. no. really. it's homework. i have been assigned a food review. so it looks like i am just going to have to go out and get something to eat. and i would prefer not to write a review of the chicken nuggets at mcdonalds. (i have in the past, however, reviewed the dancing chickens!)

what a shame, huh? looks like this will be the only assignment i start on time this semester. the paper. we'll see. dinner. i'm there.

another rainy gloomy day, but today was made bearable by a meeting that wasn't even necessary.

(sounds a lot like today's episode was made possible by the national science foundation and by viewer's like you)

but i got a little encouragement and a few kind words and today they were needed. tonight it's going to take vodka. but today...a few kind words went a long way.