So, it’s sunny but cool out in the Nation’s Capital today. It’s still nice for November, so I’m not complaining.

Work on my research paper proceeds slowly but surely. Not much else going on but that, which is just as well. I just need to have some uninterrupted time to make some pretty solid progress and I’m sure that momentum from that point will carry me, but it’s getting that uninterrupted time that I’m most concerned with.

Otherwise, I have a TA workshop that I need to attend this evening, so that’s going to cut into my time for everything. On the plus side, though, they’re offering pizza, so I’m not going to complain too much about it. It does, however, mean that I won’t get to go to the gym tonight, which I’m as thrilled about. Alas. But hey, Surrey Boy is at a job interview today for a full-time, permanent position. Yay!

So, it’s nice and sunny out today in the Nation’s Capital. And while it’s unlikely to be as warm as it was yesterday – a mind-boggling plus seventeen in freaking November – it’s still shaping up to be a very nice day out.

It’s almost like a day off for me – no classes, the House not sitting, no articles on the go. But oh, wait – I have a research paper or three to work on. Right. So guess what I’m up to? You guessed it – research. Today’s goal is to do the literature review for said paper, and get that written up. Oh, and I have journal articles to read for class tomorrow. So that’s my day.

We had a bit of a “family discussion” last night with Surrey Boy and impressed upon him the importance that he gets a job – any job – right away. So, fingers crossed that it happens.

PS—Heather Mallick has another column over on CBC.ca, and she talks about the way that we’re now treating public spaces as private property – and complaining loudly about it – in our newfound insistence of the gross unfairness of life. And by the gods, she still manages to make me laugh doing it.