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this has been one of the most intense weeks i have had in recent memory. it’s one of those things were no matter where you are somebody seems to want something from you. i think everyone working in academia is feeling the midsemester crunch both students and faculty are at full speed ahead with projects. i have been pulling about 55 hours weeks as of late.

so work is busy (really fucking busy), i have started a class so there is that classic cloud of homework following you everywhere you go like a stalker, we have started filming a documentary which is great experience for me but i am not completely confident i my skills so the process is taxing (there are also two people who want to be in charge of this project and have differening opinions about the process), we have taken in a new dog to foster care for a few weeks and, as lovable as she is, she has some sort of nervous tick where she hacks (like a throw up a little bit in your mouth kinda of thing) so first thing in the morning, and everyother point in the day, there is old man hacking echoing in the house,

oh, let’s see, speaking of the house, we have ants. the ants showed up right before our toilet suddenly stopped working and starting backing up into our shower. that incident escalated when our landlord tried to fix the clog and came out of the bathroom and said “I broke your fucking toilet.” well great this will be the second night i do not have a pisser or a shower. he gets a new toilet only to put on the old toilet seat that is too short for the bowl  and the base of the toilet is shorter as well so you can now see a few layers of linoleum. so $50 dollars later i have put on a new toliet seat and new rugs to hide the floor.

moving on. the ants started in the bathroom (pretoliet incident) which is really weird. let are coming in the sink drain…after toothpaste i guess? now they are where you would expect in the pantry and in the recycling. jeff took the recycling storage out. you’d think we live in filth but we don’t the house has definitely been dirtier than normal but more in the i-need-to-vacuum-and-wash-clothes kind of way. so i guess we will be spraying the hell out our house (which is no longer “very cute” in my mind). watch out ants it’s time to meet your maker.

i am hanging on by finger nails until t-day break where if all goes well i’ll have five precious days with no work.