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I've been out of sorts all morning and I'm not entirely sure why. I think it has to do with the weather, partly. They're saying we're going to get thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight, and for some reason I get frantic and angry until the storm breaks if I know it's coming. Maybe it's an air-pressure thing, maybe it's an electricity thing, I don't know. It doesn't make me the easiest person to live with, though (and when I don't want to live with myself, I can't imagine anybody else has any fun interacting with me either.)

Speaking of living with people, my sister was staying with us this weekend. Some of it was fun and some of it drove me to distraction. Even if we are less than two years apart, we're distinctly different people. I think most of our relatives have finally realized that. What a lot of people haven't realized, I think, is that just because I don't have a PhD and a gazillion-dollar-a-year first job at Pfizer, it doesn't make me any less of a success. I've been supporting myself and paying my own bills for going on five years now, and if that isn't as impressive as having a PhD, I'm sorry, but I'm proud of it.

I typed fourteen treatment plans and five letters before lunch today. It's a good thing I'm going on vacation next week. On "vacation" next week (as opposed to VACATION the week after, when I leave Boston and go to the beach for a week), I should:

Return the stupid cable box we keep getting $200 invoices for
Go get a learner's permit AGAIN so I can get a driver's license some day
Call Kent State and ask them about what a nonteaching graduate assistantship is
Do laundry (which is a perpetual condition)
Relax, at least a little

Anybody standing between me and the shower when I get home is going to wind up with footprints up their front. That is all.