first of all, i've realized the reason my text width seems wrong
is because it is. here i was assuming 80 was generous. i believe i
read 67 is safe so that's what i just set it to.

i've been getting really into my night-time routines lately. not
super rigidly, but i've been making tea every night and doing some
kind of not-work to wind down. right now i'm drinking (well, not
yet, i just poured the water) peppermint tea with lots of sugar.
sue me! i'll probably read something later on. last night i tried
to start reading the talmud because i had a horrible dream two
nights ago that involved it. i can't remember much about the dream
other than that it was horrible and involved the talmud, which i've
already said. i believe i was some trusted person to someone trying
to leave the faith. he wanted me to get rid of his copy, but i held
on to it with the premonition that he would return to his faith. i
don't believe in the dream i was jewish (nor am i in the waking
world), but i felt some kind of obligation to it in the dream. i
think in a later part of the dream there were lots of people trying
to visit a church i was somehow involved in maintaining. this was a
feverish kind of dream where i was half-awake, so the church
architecture in question was the arrangement of my pillows and
blankets. i had to keep tossing and turning to make it just right.
i would wake up fully, realizing i'm half asleep, and sit up and
tell myself that these half-dream things aren't real, but then i'd
go right back to it. it was really frustrating. i also had a
headache at the very top of my head, which i'd never had before.
also, on account of my tossing and turning and bodily contortions
for the churchgoers' sakes, i spent most of the night in horrible
positions for my neck. 

anyway, after that dream i wanted to read the talmud so i had a
better idea of what that guy in my dream was leaving me with. my
internet's been really bad lately, so i spent about 30 minutes
waiting for a pdf to download. after the 30 minutes slowly passed,
i opened the pdf up only to realize it was in czech. so i gave up
with that. maybe i'll try again some other time, but probably not
tonight. 

i had my last session for the class i'm TA-ing today. it was the
last of the student presentations. now i have so much grading i
need to do. i'd rather do normal work than grade any day though, so
any day becomes every day and i never grade. and so it goes until
grades are due and i'm wringing my hands and rubbing my neck. as
much as i know this, i'm not gonna start tomorrow, nor the next day
probably. i'm working on a fun project involving trying to predict
enzyme activity on a molecule given the molecular structure and a
bunch of expression data. i'm in the phase of working on it right
now where everything is so confusing so i just have to keep making
mistakes until it makes sense.

anyway, i forgot about my tea as usual and it's crazy strong but
not bad.