I don’t care how many times I experience the end of the semester, the last couple weeks before graduation are always a bitch. This past Thursday and Friday were particularly awful. I won’t go into details.
So what about today? Today has been ok. I’ll start with last night. M and I watched 30 Rock and The Office while the boys played upstairs. I finally returned to The Possibility of An Island, after a rare couple of days away from books, and read for a solid hour before falling asleep on the couch. I stumbled upstairs near midnight and crashed in the guest bedroom. Later, towards dawn, I had a strange dream about riding with Shadow on Amtrak through Indiana. At one stop we got out to walk around and the train left without us. For some reason I called LM from work to pick us up. I saw her at a meeting yesterday. Maybe that’s why she was on my mind.

T was up and downstairs by five, probably in part due to the St. Nick’s celebration. Shadow and I joined him a little later, fired up some coffee, and checked email. T and his brothers, once they were up, let M sleep until 6:30AM before waking her and attacking their St. Nick’s gifts. Each kid got candy and army men. My kids are into sugar and violence. The boys played with their new set-ups for a good couple hours. I jumped in the car and hit the supermarket and donut shop. Our donut shop rocks. The building smells like a bakery although the booths and formica are more indicative of a fast food restaurant. An old woman got my donuts (only six) before I walked through the snow, drove past the snowplows, and returned home. I skipped working out Friday, the first day off in three weeks, so I climbed on the elliptical for an hour while watching “21” and some new Travel Channel show in which a guy takes on food challenges across the nation. He won this one, by the way, by eating some five pound steak in a half hour. Something like that. After a shower and breakfast T, S and I drove over to the hill for snowboarding. Goddamn, the wind and air were cold. I lasted about twenty minutes before hiding in the car. The boys joined me soon afterwards. We spent the rest of the afternoon watching “The Princess Bride” while M worked upstairs on her laptop. T is off singing at some crazyass outdoor choir concert. No thanks!

I’m tired, man. But I’m not sure what to do tonight. I think I’ll read now. Snowboarding pics later. Good night.