Suicidal Canadians

Canadian geese that is. There's a whole flock of them living in a pond down the road from my house that I drive by every morning on my way to campus. Lately, they have taken to spending the earlier part of the morning, when the road is busiest (which isn't that busy by San Francisco standards, but is a near traffic jam for these parts), hanging out in the middle of the road. Stupid geese. You can pull up within a foot of them and just sit there, and they won't budge at all. They just stare you, all creepy like, until you figure out how to get around them.

I actually like the geese. I hear them honking in the early morning, when the light is still misty, and there is something comforting in that. Of course, it makes harder to get out of bed. That time of morning always makes me a little sad when I am sleeping alone. The world is still, my mind is as calm as it will be for the day, and I drift into thoughts of the people who are far away. The longing is gentle and soft, but somehow worse when I want to be held so badly I can almost feel it.

Anyhow, I'm still behind with my school work but I'm slowly getting caught up. I have to catch up with torts and then all I have left today is the reading I need to do for tomorrow. With any luck I'll be able to get it all done this afternoon and tonight. Luckily my skills class got moved back to 5 tonight so I should have just enough steam left when that gets out to get another 20 pages or so done tonight before falling asleep. I've decided that taking RSI breaks is a good thing, just like it was when I was doing tech work, and that I can use my spinning wheel as incentive. I may move her up to the office, right now I'm doing my work at the kitchen table and I don't like that, having my school books all over the living room just isn't a happy thing. Confining my schoolwork to one room in the house seems like a better idea than having it scattered all over so I can never escape it.

Besides, if I'm downstairs near the kitchen I get up every 10 minutes to find a snack of some sort, just to get away from the books. No good for the WW thing. So far, that's been going quite well. I'm not so sure about this week though, it's been a bit difficult the last few days to stick with core foods, and my brothers wedding is this weekend, so the food situation is going to be a bit sketchy. Oh well. I'll do the best I can, that's all I can do.