random bullets of "you have to be kidding me"

• Bush's address on the war in Iraq.
• Over 10 hours of doggy-insanity while I tried to prep for the new semester.
• Being granted a course release the semester before I go up for tenure--rather than a sabbatical--on the condition that I teach a class of 300 students.
• Having The Glorious but still having my spine crushed on a nightly basis.
• A friend/colleague misspelling my name--repeatedly--in his editorial statement upon his taking the reins from me in his editorship of The Top Tier journal in my field.
  
• Nearly a year passing since my father's death and feeling as if it were a day.
• Madonna's Truth or Dare. I'm watching it right now. I thought she was the awesomest person alive when this film debuted.