I think that I technically forgot to eat lunch today. I had some doughnuts for breakfast, so that was some sugar early on, then I munched on pretzels and an apple when my stomach decided it was hungry, probably around lunchtime; I don’t rememeber. I had a soda in there somewhere too. I’m not overly concerned. It’s not like I wouldn’t live for a couple months on my body fat anyway.

I got a new pencil case. It’s black and it’s soft and I like it a lot already. I’ve made several little drawstring pouches for carrying things around in, but I’m not the biggest fan of using those for pencils. Pencils tend to poke through the little hole in the top or they create new holes in the bottom. Besides, this thing has a zipper. That automatically makes it way more high-tech than the hand-made drawstring pouches I make for myself.

I crave Starburst candies and bagpipe music. Those things are not related. If you try to relate them, your head will explode. Trust me. Just accept that I’m random, and life will be easier.

I think that rather than grade papers this afternoon or work on the thesis (which I left at home anyway), I will write up some more excerpts from my novels and jot down some more notes. I was working on an excerpt yesterday or the day before, and now I wonder where I put it. I hate losing bits and pieces of my stories because they end up in different notebooks or are on loose-leaf paper and therefore can be mislaid anywhere. If there is a queen of organization out there, I am not her bastard child.

Time for tea. I have three varieties of mint tea here at work. Sometimes I think that all this tea will make me a bitter person, but I guess the sugar offsets that. Tea is wonderful even when I am not. Mmm, tea.