Objection!

I'm sorry, I just have to say it.

I object to CNN using the word "showdown" in connection with the hideous multiply-fubar'd situation festering between America and Iraq. This is bad, careless, and inexcusably irresponsible language.

We are not in a Western, ladies and gentlemen, and Shrub is not John Wayne.

trudging toward ... somewhere

Worked on the dissertation this afternoon.
*reels, writhes, and faints in coils*

Got Duffy integrated into the chapter. Must read Cressy. If I read Cressy and get him in by the end of February, I can give the chapter to the godlike committee member without actually expiring of embarrassment. It's good to have goals.

Fiction being recalcitrant. (What, you think I'd work on my dissertation spontaneously and out of the goodness of my heart?) Should go stare at it some more. Want to send leviathan-like ms to agent at the beginning of next week, ergo, must write this last scene that my charming and talented pointed out to me is really kind of, well, you know, crucial.