Why do I do this to myself? I had rec letters to do for a student. Made an appointment for her to pick them up today. Ok, fine, wrote letters, had them ready for her. I also have other letters to do for other students. Am I taking advantage of my momentum to actually do the other letters, which are due next week? Not at the moment. With the immediate deadline of "student coming to pick up letters" off my radar, I am reading blogs.

And, we've been invited to dinner at our former neighbors' new house tonight at 6. Their kid used to play with our kid. They are perfectly nice people, but I don't actually care about them one way or the other, and I really really wish i didn't have to knock off work in order to go sit at their house for two or three hours being cheerful. Ugh.

Then again, maybe I can use that deadline to force myself to do some of these fucking rec letters.