An implacable nervousness has gripped our hero! I can feel failure happening right now.

But here's the good news: yesterday, I saw a porcupine for the first time. Then later, I walked out my front door, and there was a buck deer standing in the flowers. Lastly, I was walking to my car at night in a torrential downpour, arm wrapped around the shoulders of my colleague and the owner of the one umbrella between us, and we stepped over a tiny little garter snake ribboning over the flooded sidewalk.

TUESDAY

-- do dishes
-- do laundry
-- shoot the shit with doqz, who just heard I invented balling
-- water the plants
-- work out
-- find out when is Lara the Catholic's birthday okay, it is July 25th.
-- find state tax return documents
-- walk to Safeway and purchase
* laundry detergent
* milk
* fuck, something I have already forgotten
It was hand soap.
-- if I read "Bartleby the Scrivener," I am allowed to watch 2 episodes of "Life" OR go to sushi happy hour with Usha
-- call client L about summer/fall scheduling
-- go to staff meeting

3PM ETA: I am bored with doing the things on my to-do list. I'm starting to have mild hallucinations.