i don't know why i'm so tired suddenly. i've been going to bed at around midnight since exams ended and waking at around 6.30 or so, because i always am awake to hear my 6.45 alarm go off. that's plenty of sleep! i need to read more. had lunch with bob today, very fortunate because i was just coming out of bryan in agitation about getting my dressing down from various and saw him coming out of minor hall ahead of me. could hardly eat, although i did make bob laugh. we were ejected from a closing pav at 2.30 and meandered to starbucks - bob thought that if he got his coffee he would be able to think of a nohrnberg solution (he didn't) and then it was back to the library to face hard truths on email. we ran into denis ferhatovic in the library - which is a darned shame because i had a book for him, but by the time i'd left home i hadn't heard from him if we were going to meet. i should probably email him again tomorrow morning. these days i introduce bob as my "mentor, confidant and fellow nohrnberg devotee." but lately i've been thinking he's been a high priest figurewho interprets the nuances in nohrnberg emails and intercedes ("don't come between a dragon and his wrath") on my behalf to deflect nohrnberg's sterness. ("are you fireproof by now?" denis asked him) and at that point we all get cornered by alison milbank. all things considered it is good to be talking to denis again. for goodness sake we're practically graduating, and everything else is a long time ago. it's going to rain tomorrow. *disgruntled* heavy boxes down three flight of stairs and calling a cab and rain. bleah.
if one thing good happened today, it was that i managed to capture 3 boxes, from the bookstore loading dock. it took endless rummaging (on tiptoes) to find boxes of a size that would fit these m-bags (big canvas sacks for posting books) that i have got from the p.o. and perhaps tomorrow i'll try to pinch some more. everyone i know with a car is somewhere in nova or working so can't take me while the p.o. is open. i am panicking about how to get all these boxes to the post office by tomorrow, and although i really shouldn't ask bob, i might have to.