Whooooooo's a big stupid procrastinator . . .?

I AM! I AM!

Sigh.

I should be thoroughly ashamed. I still have 1,000 words of this paper to write, and I have to completely redo the existing 1600 words so that they don't sound like a pile of rubbish. But all I want is to take a nap and hope that it will all just . . . float away, like so many petals on the wind. And now that it's 10:00 I think, "Well, huh. 10:00. No point getting started now!" This basically means that I'm going to flunk out of school. Again. Some more. It's the Dimond Center for me, boys.

What do y'all think of this dress Banana pointed me to? We have this 1940s ball thingy coming up in a couple of weeks and I guess I'm meant to wear something to it. Like, something other than the six outfits that are pretty much all I wear and which are now starting to fall apart. This is because I was too busy cramming my queen-sized down comforter from Bed Bath & Beyond into my suitcase last fall to think about packing silly things like clothes. Although, seriously? Have not regretted it once. And if any of you have ever had the good fortune to be underneath my duvet (especially with me in it, heh heh) you will understand. Anyway, I think I could be a fan of this dress. It might make me look like Olga the Milkmaid, though, with the shoulders that are made for hauling around those yokes on which people hang milk buckets. I suppose I could braid my hair in pigtails as well. So feel free to give your opinions on the dress, only nobody else bid for it, okay? Because that would be rude.

Random England Dessert facts for the day:

• Here you pour cream or custard on pretty much all desserts. I can get behind that.
• Dessert is called "pudding," which I think is cute.
• Too many desserts/puddings have raisins and sultanas in them. It's unfortunate. Once I drown the thing in custard or cream, though, I don't mind so much.
• Some people, like WR, will pour milk on his dessert in the absence of cream or custard. And then microwave it. This sometimes makes my throat close up.
• They are smart to measure themselves in stones here. Because then you have to gain about 12 pounds before your declared weight actually changes.
• Tonight's pudding was a cake that landlady J made. It had ground hazelnuts and cherries and chocolate chunks. Then we put cream on top.
• England is a good land.
  

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