ok, so here's the deal...

i am not sure what happened over thanksgiving break (especially since only one day of it was really resting), but i have been completely loathe to rejoin the normal living world over the last two days!  and it's not really anything specific...that's what is so weird...i like coming in to work, i like doing things around the house...but i really just want to stay in my living room and read novels about monks and look at our christmas tree, with an occasional outing to the grocery store for pinot grigio while listening to david sedaris on cd.

what gives me pause is the fact that it's not a desire mutually exclusive with any other activities that i can or have to do this week.  i like coming to work and i like running errands on my way home, but both of those desires subsist equally with the desire to stay home and look at a tree.  a fake one--decorated with the biggest, gaudiest lights available at wal-mart.  yes, all of you who thought that would never happen...i have become a less-than-semi-regular customer at wal-mart.  perhaps i'll post about that later...i'm still coming to terms with the vying capitalistic practices versus the centrality issues, i must admit...trying to work it all out in my head...

anyway, here we go, embarking on another flurried tuesday afternoon, preparing for the wednesday when there are multiple classes to teach and the computers in the lab seem to equate "hump day" with "done day"!  i guess we are all waking up from break and getting ready for the next hurtle through exam week...