Miscellany

So this is a pretty typical scene around our apartment. And yes, that is a ennormous package of toilet paper sitting on our dining room table. Somewhere along the way, our dining room evolved into the dumping ground for "stuff we just don't really want to deal with right now."

Bags of recycling? Sure! Stuff that needs to go back to Richmond in five months (seriously)? Why not! And, as shown here, any surplus of STUFF that needs to go into our hall storage closet? There has never been a more perfect place than the dining room.

I don't know why we relegate these things to a life in the dining room. All I know is that tonight when I was doing an evening sweep of the apartment, I grabbed our lifetime supply of toilet paper that was sitting by the bathroom door and instead of taking it into the hallway and neatly storing it away, I promptly put it on the dining room table. It was a knee-jerk reaction. Do I think that by putting it there I will be motivated to put it away tomorrow? Because I'm pretty sure that we'll just sit down at the table and eat with the tower of toilet paper looming over us. And by pretty sure I mean positive.

Ness has learned how to steal socks from the hamper when it's full (and yes, this does serve as a signal that I need to do laundry, and yes I AM choosing to ignore that truth-fact at present). This is approximately the one bajillionth time that I have picked up this. very. sock. from around the apartment today, and OH MY GOODNESS sometimes it feels like I am not a graduate student, not a wife, but a picker-upper of slobbery socks and flip-flops. BAH.

And THIS is how many pages I have written of the paper that is due Friday. In case you can't tell (this picture was better in my head), that is a big fat ZERO. I have plenty of notes, tons of articles highlighted and sticky-noted, but actually page count? Zero. Which basically means: Disaster. Also: that I am TOTALLY back on caffeine until this paper is done.

On the bright side, the super cheap roses I bought from Trader Joe's last Friday are still doing splendidly. So there's that. If they (and I) make it to this Friday, then I'll be REALLY impressed.