california dreaming

"she said you're like a disease without any cure...." wife and daughter: basking in the L.A. haze. me: enjoying an inch of snow, gusty wind; ah, spring in northern indiana.... number of lights on in the house: 0 electronic devices in use: at least 4 pages written since friday: 6 pages i should have written: 18 days of class left: 2 days until b&g return: 7 meals i can expect to eat between now and then: 5 (2-mom; 1-small group; 1-dave; 1-classmates) likely number of showers that will be taken over next week: 2.33 number of small children to frighten with my hirsute and unkempt appearance: 4 likelihood that i will utter the words "ontological," "deontological," "non-epistemic," or the phrase "quit being such a positivist" sometime in the next two days: 99.99% procrastination techniques deployed against writing papers or reading: 345,734,639 probability that those procrastination techniques will come back to bite me in the arse: 100% apathy at this moment: 99% apathy that will be expressed about same subject matter when facing a professor whose almighty hand wields the power to alter my future: .1% (when appropriate) fingernails bitten off at that time: 6