Beaten-to-death lament about work

Seriously. How are we at this again?
How again, despite my planning and best intentions, do I still have 15 papers to grade, two presentations to work on, two papers to finish and 200 pages of reading to do? How?*

Aight, I'm off for a bit now to try and breathe and in the process, to remember that there's a lot outside my control. And there's fat little I can do about it.

*All rhetorical. I know how. Or, see title of post.

Day 23: Tv9 and the stupidity that is Telugu Media

I've been distracted from my much awaited chardonnay by this:
TV9 apparently has done a highly homophobic segment on gay culture in Hyderabad:
http://gaysifamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/TV9_GayCulture_hydbd_english.pdf

Really, TV9? Homophobia?
First of all, grow up.
Secondly, STOP IT!

Day 7 - A week, one day at a time. A Catalog. Despicable Me.

It's been a week.

Take one day at a time. I have to keep repeating that to myself. One day at a time. One day at a time.

I used to be able to do this easily, without fixating on a postbox.
But I'm older now. My habits are harder to break. Atleast, so I think.

I've slipped down the unmentionable slope several times this week. I'm on the verge of it right now, actually.
I'm troubled that I won't make it through this. That I will fall short of my best effort, wreck everything and fall  in on myself like an inflated pyramid.

I want reassurance. But what I really need is a swift kick in the pants (um, figuratively).
I might fail utterly at this. But I won't ever find out without trying, right?