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Bads:

The annnoying Touchy-Feely Student from my Roman History section decided to take my summer class because he thought I was such a great teacher.

I'm feeling tired and unmotivated dissertation-wise.

I hate dealing with library reserves.

I still have vertigo. Our GM over the weekend arranged all these shiny glass gems in a circle to represent the crunchies attacking us, and after a few hours, they were spinning whenever I looked at them.

Goods:
I have 8 interesting and cool students in my summer course, ranging from a biomedical post-doc wanting something different to a Latinophile high school senior to a South Asian studies grad student. This should be fun. I think the opening lecture went well, too.
In the end of a 10.5 year D&D campaign, we changed the world into a hopefully better world, and my character survived without permanent brain damage! Maybe I can finally erase my brain damage curse!

I got to spend two weekends hanging out with fajitas, who I don't get to see nearly often enough. Last night on DS9, we figured out why he likes that show so much - both Jake and Nog share fajitas' sense of fashion and color.

We have a vice-presidential candidate who I can actually cheer for! His little kids are cute too. Democrats - the Good Hair party...

I need a word to describe a greedy, selfish woman that can also be used to describe a woman who is young and sexually attractive. I really, really don't want to use b-h, both because I personally object to the word and because, darnit, this dissertation is going to have enough obscenity in it as it is. Any suggestions? I'm stuck here.