Ok, Enough

 

Bulleted List Time:

• I ran 11 miles (~18 km) this morning, outside starting at 4:45am, because I am going to be damn dogged determined to NOT fall behind the goals this week, so Saturday can be easier.

 

• I have been inside all day, busy at work and lecture and lab.  Today I am in rooms with no windows.  Much to my chagrin, I come out of the rooms I have been working in and glance out a nearby window, and what do I see........ a flurry of HUGE snowflakes.  (I am so very much tired of Winter.)

 

• I am going to take home a huge stack of papers to try to continue to grade.  It does not sound fun in any way, shape, or form.  But, I think if I try to work through at least some of them tonight, I will feel a lot less stress.  

 

• I feel extremely hungry right now.  

 

• I feel BEYOND extremely desiring of a pipe right now.  After I returned to my office after my last lecture, I sat quietly at my desk, held my Peterson pipe (which I mentioned I have been carrying around in my jacket pocket a few days), and gave myself permission to daydream for 10 minutes (I put on a timer.).

 

• For my daydream, I closed my eyes, and quietly both remembered and imagined I was smoking a bowlful of simple, yet potent, vanilla-tinctured burley leaf.  It was utterly beautiful to be in my memory and imagination in that way.  When I can do it well, I can almost TASTE the flavors and FEEL the power the beautiful leaf provides me.  I was salivating like I was one of Pavlov's dogs by the end of the 10 minutes.  Do not worry, I did not drool.... I kept my mouth shut. 

 

• I wish I could get my memories of my dreams to return.  It has been so damn many months since I recall a dream.  In some of my dreams, it truly did feel like I was smoking my pipes.  
  

 

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