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today is very slow. melancholy without being sad. it's gray and the campus is starting to empty as people leave for thanksgiving. i've been playing minesweeper to while away the tedium at work for no one can have questions if they are not here. also, there's music coming from somewhere that i can't quite here but it's a slow, sad sort of music.

i am balanced today. directing projects happened yesterday so, for better or worse. everyone else seemed to go well, some very well. mine was kind of a blur during which all i noticed were things going wrong. though i think those got covered okay. next week we shall discuss them and i shall find out what people thought. not even nervous any more.

i have no work that absolutely must be done tonight. i think i may actually take some time to sleep and read. maybe i'll even finish that last philip pullman book. though i do have a paper to write over thanksgiving. alas.

and minesweeper is so much less entertaining when being used to fight boredom than when being used to procrastinate.