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Time Crunch

Though I've been ahead for most of the semester, I've somehow managed to fall behind in my schoolwork and now have only a little more than a week to go in the semester. I've been working hard this past week to catch up, and should be able to get all my work done if I continue at this pace.

But it is a challenge.

There is simply too much going on. This semester has been mostly free from those strange confluences of events which conspire to consume all available time. But I seem to now be in the middle of a doozy.

Last week, Tree and Spark got sick. That's relatively uneventful all by itself, but it did mean that there was no one to take up the slack when...I started getting shadows (mild clusters which last all day--same amount of overall pain, just spread out over more time--these are incredible energy drains). I was unable to take naps when Spark was napping because I had contractors here to redo the deck.

I figured that I would get a lot of homework done this weekend, but Tree either relapsed or got something entirely new. Either way, she was down for the count this weekend and I needed to take care of her and Spark instead of attending to my schoolwork.

I still managed to get a significant amount of work done, but only about half as much as I had hoped. Sigh.

The good news is that we now have a refinished deck and I am having shadows instead of clusters (which should mean 4-6 more months of no clusters, even if it means having 3 weeks of shadows now).

April 1st

Arrgh! It's April Fools Day. Which means that it is impossible to surf the net without getting inundated with ridiculous news stories and other pranks. Ah well.

I'd post (an idea for) my own april fools fake news item, but it is in poor taste, even for april fools. With a modicum of creativity, you might find it.