I just pulled some warm cranberry orange muffins out of the oven. You'll note it is nearly midnight, but hey, I'm gonna be up for hours. Before that I taped all these pictures and cards up to remind me of my friends, but the tape I used was clearly not up for the job, and so every few minutes, something falls off the wall and joins the pile of decorative rubble on the floor. They mock me.

Manky is similarly struggling to stay focused as she works on her paper. We are all posting on each other's blogs as a means of distraction. I am keeping the soothing, non-distracting music going so I don't go completely mad, but I am not sure it's working.

Rani-gato is running around on the couch because I can't handle her jumping on the keyboard and peeing on my research. Shes probably thinking that I a a horrible mom, and that I should have bought her a friend back when I thought about it.

The good news is that I have made some progress on my paper. I have 4 pages. I know that at least two of the paragraphs are ok, mostly because I futsed around with them for two days. The rest could be crap, but I am going to put off proof-reading until I have made more headway. That might be too depressing.