Where's Al?

I'm sure I'm not the only one to be asking that question. I mean I purposely haven't posted for the past few days, in the hopes it would encourage him to break some shit up in the place.

Actually, that's a lie. (Jeez...I'm starting to sound more like my cohort everyday.) I haven't posted because I've had close to a million other things going on. Let's see...there were back pains all through the week culminating in paralyzing fatigue/depression early Thursday morning. Real early. Like 5AM early. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't stop thinking about the other things that had to be done, I just couldn't do much of anything. Thursday turned to Friday with much the same, so once again I called into work. I will say that things got a bit brighter Friday due in large part to the fact that, since Annie left for work, I had the whole bed to myself and I slept without interruption until noon. I haven't done that in a while. I miss it. I've found lately that I miss a lot of things.

Annie's brother was with us all this weekend. He helped Annie decorate the house for the Halloween party. She stood on a foot ladder, staple-gunning Christmas/Halloween lights all around the room only to have them blow fuses and not work correctly. Meanwhile, I did my weekly reading, worked as best I could on a five page rough draft scheduled to be due today, continued to stress out about all the future assignments due for the rest of November, and probably compounded the pain in my back. I'd say we all had a very fulfilling weekend.

So, having missed work on Thursday and Friday, I had a lot of stuff to catch-up on. I can at least claim one benefit from all of this; at the very least I created work for myself so that I didn't feel completely frustrated (for being chained to my office desk instead of being at home, spending my time more efficiently working on class-related projects) or otherwise generally useless. All that took me about a day. Monday, actually. So now here I am, early Tuesday morning and I've found a momentary respite here where I could make yet another contribution to the board. Ta-freakin'-da!

Meanwhile, Mr. Redman remains MIA.