At this moment, I should be working on writing a proposal for graduate student research money. I actually came home from the lab early to work on it and took yesterday off completely to work on it. It’s not like I haven’t been working on it–because I have. I’m doing my usual fuss-over-every-last word and second-guess-everything stuff that I always do. The assitant research biologist read over what I have so far when I was in, and she thinks it sounds great. She only had a few little suggestions, and they’re not anything major.

If I really got down with it, I could have it done in a few hours. But, alas, I’m just not feeling like writing at the moment. I could lay down for a bit, but then I just won’t want to go to sleep tonight…

Not helping anything is that it’s all rainy and dreary outside. It’s unusual for this time of year where I’m at. We have a true wet-or-dry climate, and we should be into the dry part right now. Which, the rain is good because it’ll keep things green a bit longer. On the flip side, it’s going to be 90 degrees later this week and with the rain we’re getting, it means that everything will be all humid and sticky. I hate humid sticky weather. I grew up in the South, and of all the things I miss, I must say humid hot weather is not one of them. I suppose I could just look at it as training for next week when I go home.

In other news, NBC had their “upfront” this week and despite all the fans efforts, they decided to get rid of American Dreams. I was expecting it to happen, and prepared for it, but I was still disappointed. I understand it was a business decision, but after reading some descriptions of their new dramas from the fall, I find myself asking if these people honestly think that their new shows are actually going to get better ratings… The worst one is called “Fathom” and it’s about this new form of sea life that pops up. Completely.Utterly.Ridiculous. They’ve managed to schedule this non-gem as the lead-off show for Monday nights, which also has me scratching my head. I don’t think it’s the best lead in for my beloved Las Vegas, and I worry that the drivel could hurt LV’s ratings. Of course, if the writers don’t do a heckuva a better job on LV next season, they may hurt their ratings themselves.

Totally changing subjects again, I think I’ve just come to the conclusion that I would have gotten more done today on the research proposal if I’d just stayed home to begin with. The writing was going fine until I decided to go in for a few hours and started getting cleaned up… Ah well… I’ll get back to work here… in the next little bit or so…