grumph

I swear every idiot and their grandmother were on the road this morning. Klipfontein Rd was solid and unmoving: I was hooted at by impatient vans, cut off in traffic twice by busses, shouted at by suicidal pedestrians, and finally, as the crowning indignity, had a small, hard piece of fruit thrown at my windscreen by some benighted bus passenger. I arrived on campus having worked up a really good snit, which the cosmic wossnames then deliberately undercut by miraculously providing free parking a good two flights of stairs closer to my office than I usually find at that time. Honestly! Let's have some consistency here, universe!

In other irritating news, LJ has suddenly refused to let me post comments from my campus computer. My lunchtime sandwich apparently contained dodgy chicken, as I'm feeling sick. I'm desperately short of sleep, as I seem to be going through an insomniac phase which means I lie awake until, on average, 1 or 2am before drifting off. I haven't finished this damned batch of marking yet, and I'm a week behind deadline on the latest encyclopedia entries, and realising with increasing sinking feelings that I actually know far less about the history of animated films than I thought I did.

However! Despite this panorama of unremitting gloom, life is worth living because jo is running her roleplaying game tonight. Really cool game page here, for you fellow roleplaying geeks.