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Blech. This is starting to seem like a lousy day. There was no coffee left over for breakfast, and I got a call from collection agency on a bogus debt before I even got in the tub. I went into town for an apointment, and watched one of my less well developed ethical (or political?) principles snap under the strain of new data. I looked at some interesting reading material, and then moved on. I had a half litre of water and an iced mocha for lunch, along with a virulent criticism of PayPal from the young woman serving the beverages. I spent an hour leisurely browsing in the bookstore: perusing the magazines (oops should have gotten The Economist), looking over the foeign language section, looked over the games and sourcebooks, looked for twenty minutes for a language book that remains unfound even after I enlisted help from the staff, and finally purchased the second half of The Book of the New Sun. And even that didn't make me feel any better.
I have a list of people to touch base with( If you number among them, call or email, please...), and an ever expanding list of tasks to do before I head out ( wash clothes, pack, clean truck, homework, have a complete nervous breakdown, et al .... ) The press of time added to the uncertainy (sometimes even forboding) I feel about this trip (echoed from how I feel about life fnord, the universe and everything) is starting to manifest as inertia, and this morning seems to not have helped at all. I have all of these things to do, including a fair bit of homework to write up, and I feel as if I couldn't muster the willpower to go play video games for four hours (which, like browsing a good bookstore, has been known to distract me before).
It's been a lousy quarter-century all together. This wasn't what I planned to post today. Happy Birthday to me.

awwww
I've been down in the dumps all day and hanging out with you has always been known to cheer both of us up.
I called you last.... it's your turn, butthead.