Some sad news and morbid musings

I would be stressed today anyway, with trying to produce an intelligible draft of a prospectus to give my advisor tomorrow before he visits his parents in Germany for two weeks and with having to face my first session of "driving around in a car with an instructor" two hours from now. I would probably have the headache anyway (I really should get a better pillow) that makes the above less bearable.

Last night my mom called me, fairly late. That, combined with her opening -- asking me if I remembered someone I used to know many years ago -- boded ill.

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Without fail, it seems, any length of time at all I spend using the dialup connection from home will result in several breaks in connection, sometimes before I've even managed to read a single e-mail message. But if I go away and forget to disconnect on purpose, the connection will stay up for however long.

A stressful hour just now: my very first time driving a car, other than a total of an hour or so of practice in a parking lot over two nights two weeks ago, involved my driving from Peabody to Lynn (to pick up the next student) and then back to Salem. My next lesson should be a two-hour one so that there's time to do more than drive between students' houses all over the North Shore -- like go over how things in the car work.

And I left my glasses in the instruction car, and I don't anticipate being able to recover them for a day or two.

Blah.