Went into work around 7:00 this morning after less than two hours sleep. I'd say that will teach me to give myself more lead time on articles, but I know better. (Jim's Big Ego wrote a song about me. It's called Stress.) Work was good, in a way; although I personally got very little done today, there was a rather intense team conversation (prompted by the civilian boss) that I think may result in more cohesive work amongst my team. It's a damned good thing, as we have a 20 minute brief to reformulate and a 100-150 page report to pull out of the 10,000+ pages of research spread around our desks, all within the next month.

Left work early for ( my appointment at the podiatrist ). I shouldn't have any more troubles with the toe of evil and doom, which is about as good as I can ask for.

When I got home, Sam and I went to dinner. I hadn't eaten anything since I got to work (I keep a box of cereal and a quart of milk there, in case), so I was hungry as hell - I ordered a bowl of soup and what I know is a very, very large serving of meatloaf. After finishing the soup and two bites into my meatloaf, I started to feel acutely ill, so we packed it up and came home, where I spent the evening napping off the certainty that if I remained vertical, I would lose my (lack of) lunch.

This evening, I'm working on preparations for the World of Darkness (old version, Changeling and Mage) game I'm going to be running online. If you're interested, leave a comment - I've only invited about half the people I intend to, but life has been busy. I think we've got a decent idea of how to do the online RPG thing based on the 20+ combined years of playing and running the core group of players has done. I'm actually itching hardcore to get going on soft RP.

Tomorrow, I'm going to write up the results of my senior project experiments I (re-)did Monday instead of going to work, throw together a notional Powerpoint, and package it up to talk to Dr. Wilkins next week. Cross your fingers that he says I've done enough on the experiment side and that I just need to refine the paper and presentation - I've logged a lot of hours in that little lab, and I'd really rather cap it where it is.

Then there's the issue of lab reports from previous semesters - once I have my senior project stuff approved and scheduled for presentation, I can wipe those out, and I'll be on track to graduate on August 15th. Not a moment too soon; I lost patience for the bachelor's degree dog 'n' pony show about a year and a half ago.

And then there's the here-and-there stuff; I'm putting together a chapter for a book, I was invited to visit a couple days of the Master Fine Arts in Writing residency program (thanks to my kick-ass creative writing teacher from last semester), and I'm pondering hopping down to Dragon*Con in Atlanta for Labor Day.

It's going to be a busy month and a half, boys and girls.