So as we can all see, my PPD is directly proportional to the amount of work I have to do, proving that at least for me whoever said "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't his" was totally right.

I had a disappointing trip into town today, because after scouring two bookstores, I only found one of the three books I wanted. I have ordered one of the others, but the third one seems to have confused Amazon, and I'm not entirely sure what's up with its release date, so I'm just going to hang out and see what happens with it. I also looked at shoes and was unimpressed and failed to get cash because I realized I'd somehow forgotten to put my Connect card back into my wallet (why was it out? I have no idea D:) so I had to pay for everything I got with annoying swipey cards (they don't annoy me particularly, but it's annoying that virtually no one who works a cash register knows a) that they exist or b) how to charge them). Not to mention that my Tulane umbrella's button has somehow died, so my fingers are dead from fighting to get it open again after every time I had to close it to go inside a shop. Bleh. Oh, well. May just have to switch permanently to the little black one (which is my favorite anyway, but I got out of the habit of using it because it was lost for ages).

I will shortly begin attempting to do work (it will not be pretty). I still haven't moved the last of my stuff back upstairs and/or organized it, but I think that's probably the least pressing thing, especially since I didn't get round to it last night. What I did instead was talk extensively on IM and start an assassin in Diablo. She is called Aethelflaed (after one of Alfred the Great's daughters, and because I like giving assassins terrible names), and I'm still getting the hang of playing her. I can't seem to find the right balance of potions in my belt: if I have 3 slots of healing potions, my mana is gone in 4 seconds and there go my combos, but if I even put it up to half of each, I'm constantly running away collecting whatever minor potions I overlooked before because otherwise I will be dead. Alas! I'm sure all will become clear in time.

I have actually zero interest in writing about the shifting meanings of the words "spirit" and "ghost" over the medieval period, but unfortunately I also have zero remaining time in which to put it off. Hélas - les tristesses comme cela nous rendent plus forts. Bleugh I'm glad none of my French teachers can see me now lol

EDIT: Love to Dinosaur Comics today for talking about the Great Vowel Shift! ♥ It's not often Ryan North reminds us that he's really a (computational) linguist, but it always makes me feel a little validated :D Though I have, for the first time, just wondered what would happen if we had a second, similarly-structured GVS: where would [aj] go? Would it just fall further to [a], pushing everything else up one again? WHO KNOWS O_O