The long  paper is done and I am feeling relieved.  It’s 21 pages plus a 2 page bibliography.  Actually I think it’s pretty good, except for one paragraph that doesn’t make sense to me any longer and I am not sure why it’s in there.  I may take it out when I reread it tomorrow.  Or it might be brilliant and I’m just too tired to see the connection at the moment.   Hard to say.

I’d be feeling even better than pretty good if I hadn’t just read the instructions for the paper, making sure I got it all covered, and realized that I forgot I have to write a one page summary for this thing.  DRATS.  I am definitely too tired to do that tonight.  It will probably go easier if I do it right after I reread the paper tomorrow.  Right now I’m not for real sure what the paper is about!  (KIDDING!)

It’s sleeting outside my window, sometimes the sound of it startles me as I work.  Katie has finally settled down on her pillow to sleep.  She has been extra antsy tonight and asked to go outside a whole lot more than I wanted to be out there.  Which is to say she wanted to go out more than once.  We went out three times, it was miserable out there each time.  There were moments that I considered putting her out in her kennel in the sleet because that’s where she appeared to want to be, but I’m not that bad a mother, so I just told her NO about a hundred times and now she has given up.

So, time to get some sleep myself, though I hate to wake up the dog to go to sleep.  The odds are that once up she won’t go back to sleep so easy.  Sort of a parental dilema I guess.  At least I don’t have to get her into her pj’s!

Night all…