Let me just start with: This is the best week weather-wise for Charity Week. Absolutely amazing. So I woke up this morning with some tightness in my neck, and now it's a full-blown pain. It stings sometimes when I move my neck the wrong way. Where's Kim when I need her?! I think it might be all the stress I've put on myself with the psychology papers last week and the Lit Trad paper this past weekend. I'm so glad it's Charity Week, though, because my professors don't give lots of work during Charity Week. I have time to calm down before midterms. It's so hard when you have papers and readings and things that have to get done with no time to do them all well. Especially now that it's Charity Week, I don't really want to do anything. I don't know if I can avoid some of the stress, but I need some way to relax. I wish Kim was able to have a massage booth for Charity Week--I'd be there for hours. So tonight's event was the Faculty Talent Show. It was pretty good. There were three poetry readings (Father Maguire, Dr. Dupree, and Dr. Crider, who almost lulled me to sleep with his amazingly serene and calming voice), one piano sonata (Dr. Waterman, the crazy, homeless-looking man), one somethingorother (Dr. Phillips, who did the great boring lecture one last year), a singing talent (Dr. Butera, who sang beautiful Italian songs for everyone but Michelle), and two guitarists (Amber Hobbs and Dr. Hadley). Fun fun fun. I rather enjoyed Dr. Dupree's poems. But, Dr. Hadley won first, with Amber and Dr. Butera coming in second and third. I have massive reading to do. I'm glad I'm being forced to stay awake for Kim's 11:30 tuck-in because I can get some reading done. Maybe. Yeah...I'll think about it. _____________________ update Cooper's tuck-in was the best EVER. He read us cowboy stories in his heavy Texas accent. It made my day. Just made my day.