And the future hangs over our heads
and it moves with each current event
until it falls all around like a cold steady rain
just stay in when it's looking this way

So I really need to learn how to prevent these stress-induced freakouts like the minor one I had tonight. I guess that is a natural reaction when one is burdened with tasks that, due to time constraints, are not humanly achievable. Finish the remaining 320 pages of Villette, write a response paper on it, read and fully comprehend cultural theory in a matter of an hour and be able to discuss it in-depth in class tomorrow, figure out what I'm gonna teach my class on Wednesday, prepare a paper I wrote over six months ago for a conference on Saturday, decide what my professional "specialty" is going to be, work out why my approach to literature is relevant to the current trends in cultural theory.....AHHH!!!!

And I'm also in the process of booking local shows as well as a tour for my band. One day at a time, Matthew, one day at a time. But that's the problem...the days all start to blend when you sleep so little and dream so much that you can't tell yesterday from tomorrow.

I found a liquid cure from my landlocked blues.

We went to a karaoke bar last night...me, amy, matt, and kristen. I haven't been to a lot of karaoke bars, but I have to say that about 60% of the people who got up and sang there were karaoke professionals or something. They had good voices and were on pitch. One girl got up to sing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" - and I cringed because that song is way out of most people's vocal range - but she started singing and sounded exactly like Cyndi Lauper. It was phenomenal.

And yes, that was before I had imbibed much. But imbibe I did - they had mugs that had to be around 32 oz. Let's just say, by the end of my night, I was singing along (loudly) to every song and pumping my fist along to songs like "Ice Ice Baby." As Kala might say, "What a shame."

I named him Pancho Villa.

So, we had what they call a "blizzard" today. It snowed a LOT, and it was pretty windy - so I guess that's what made it a blizzard instead of just a snowstorm. I'm from Texas, so I really don't know the difference. Since the conditions were adverse to even going outside, Amy and I decided to take a little drive across town to Target. We took her Jeep, and she even got to put it into 4-wheel drive a few times. That's right, we are urban adventurers.

I'm so obsessed with Mini Coopers that I did the "build your own mini" on their webpage, downloaded the PDF file of it, and look at it several times daily. I'll try to post the picture of it on here if i can get it to work.