BAH!

Finally got a technician to come out and look at the modem for the dsl line. We now have a 4 router(?) modem so i can turn my computer off and Master can keep His on all night to download if He wants. And there's a place to connect the laptop if we need three computers on at once.

Went to purchase my ticket for home. There have been some changes. You know what Bobby Burns says. i'll be looking into cheap domestic r/t domestic tickets. But i do have to overnight in NY again. Maybe dinner?

i am not sleeping well. i am dead tired at the right time, go take my evening bath half asleep, and when i get into bed, the old peepers won't close. After about 45 min. of tossing and turning, i go out to the couch (even when Master is not home, the couch is my comfort zone) finally drop off for about 3 hrs, and then am wide alert and restless, like i can hardly keep my skin on. About 4 in the a.m. i go back to bed and drop off for another whole 45 min. This has got to stop.

i'm thinking it's stress again, but can't take the B complex anymore cuz it makes my tongue sore and my teeth feel like metal. Bah!

About the only good thing i can say for today so far, (6:45 a.m.) is that it is a bit cloudy and the temps are relatively cool. Not rain clouds cloudy.

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i knew this would happen. As much as i dislike private tutorials, i always end up really liking the student. On Wednesday, for the tutorial, i am meeting her at a coffee shop. She is a very nice girl, and i think she is very lonely. Part of the reason her parents wanted a tutor was to try to raise her out of her depression and anger over the way her life is going. She is really intelligent, she graduated valedictorian in her high school, and her uni grades are truly respectable, with the exception of her English grade. Of course my personal opinion is that the poor showing she has in English has much more to do with the program she's in than her abitlities. But i may be a bit biased.

i bought my ticket today. Same flight itinerary as last year, same airline, same booking agent. This year the ticket is about 600$ less. i'm not complaining mind you, i just don't understand. i'm hoping next year when i go to the same agent, etc., the price will be lower still. i wonder if a bribe would help? i think i'll bring her back something nice from Iowa. Yea, a piece of pork would do the trick. NOT!!!

i'm feeling a bit bucky about an arbitrary rule made by the administrators on one of the lists i read. i've been a bit discontent with the way the list has drifted. i have read very little of substance from this list in the past several months. i think i shall have to unsubscribe. i have a few days to think on it more, but right now i am truly leaning in that direction.

i've not been taking the B complex for over two weeks now. i wonder when my teeth will stop tasting like metal? i think i should still be taking it, lately i've been feeling like i could jump out of my skin.

Emerson needs some work. Why does this car always want me to spend money on it before i go home for summer?

My ex-brother-in-law had a fiveple bypass on Thursday last week. Yesterday he was not doing well. Sarah and Mother got into it a bit. Mother holds a grudge for a long time and has a special one against drinkers. She started bad-mouthing BLI because of his lifestyle habits. i don't think she realizes how mean and spiteful she sounds when she gets on one of those kicks. She hurt Sarah with her words. He is a part of her life, and he has done ok by her even after the divorce. Why can't my mother just keep her mouth shut and her opinions to herself? And, while i'm asking rhetoricals, why does she always start out with a disclaimer about not wanting to 'hurt you, but'? GAH!

Put Maxiepie's muzzle on him upside down today. When i looked at him i thought he'd gone Chinese on me.

The weeks fly by when i get to really 'teach'. It's hard to believe that today was hump day already for this week. 12 days left of class. The good news is, that means 18 days till i go home, the bad news is i found out today i have to have my grades in by the 31st of July. i had planned on having them in on the 3rd of August. Puts a bit of a rush on me to get the papers graded. Makes them due two days sooner for the students.

Master took me out for a sundae tonight.

i think it's time for me to go to bed and not sleep.