Allow me to explain

If you are my friend, and you are wondering why I have disappeared over the past little while, please allow me to set the record straight:

I am freaking out!!!!!

and am clearly concerned about it.  

(Thanks Adam, for capturing such a lovely image.)

You see, my comprehensive exams arrive 

in exactly 11 days from today.

And they will be

comprehensive!!!!!

and so: freaking out.  

Because there doesn't seem to be enough time to remind myself of everything I've learned or thought about in the past 3 years, and because I am a self-acclaimed overachiever x 1,000+.  

And because all other aspects of life must go on despite this insistent need to study:

teaching to do, a dentist to visit, articles to write, facebook to check, concerts to play, bills to pay, emails to read, students to supervise, voicemails to listen to, meetings to partake in, exercise to have, rehearsals to be at, texts to respond to, bathrooms to clean, people to engage with, papers to grade, showers to take, birthday treats to bake.

Oh, and sleep, which tends to occur when my eyes won't stay open and not to occur when my eyes won't close, and which does not follow any type of pattern you might expect...

...which explains why I recently found myself at Walmart at 4:28 on the wrong side of the sun.

(A phenomenon, by the way, I highly recommend you explore for yourself sometime...)

Because, did I mention? There is also food to buy.  

(Because--as my mother continuously reminds me--

"you have to eat!".  Yes mother.)

And so I have been chugging along, until this morning, 

when I had a revelation:

No.  The blondies are not the revelation.  (I wish.)

The revelation occurred as I went to cut those blondies.  

My typical approach to cutting pretty much anything is

haphazard!!!!!!!

but, concerned about having enough of this birthday treat to go around this afternoon I thought to myself:

"Cut it in half, and then cut it in half again.  

You will get 16 perfectly shaped little squares, 

and everyone will be happy."

And then, the

revelation!!!!!!

Cut it in half, and then cut it in half again.

Take it one little piece at a time.

And you will be

Much. Happier.


So, don't worry dear friends.  Soon it will be over.  I will re-emerge.  And I will make up to you the fact that I have ignored you--
perhaps with a nicely shaped and perfectly cut happy little blondie.  


(Because see?  Maybe I have learned something.....)