See, his paper is the only thing between him and graduation, just like me, but he's really been dragging his feet with this thing. What can I do to encourage him? I tell him there's no way in hell it's going to take him as long as it's taking me. He goes to a different school and he doesn't have an a-hole prof like I do. I refuse to nag him. When has nagging another human being ever amounted to anything? He's kind-of in a slump. I don't know how to encourage him to get his butt going on this thing. He's a born procrastinator. And he's so good at it. But once he gets going, there's not stopping him, and he doesn't mess around with quality compromise or shit like that. I guess I wait and just resign to the fact that he will get his shit done, as always. He and I have different prioritization methods of timelines and deadlines, I suppose.

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I've been at it the whole day. It's 1:04 a.m. and I believe it's time to quit. I go back to work Thursday and I'd say I'm about 89% done with what I need to get done.

We had hotdogs and a side of peas and carrots for lunch, and for dinner Amor made chicken with a tomato and rosemary sauce and a side salad made from lettuce and green bell pepper slivers with a tangy homemade dressing of lemon juice, olive oil and whole grain mustard. And he made croutons from this whole grain bread we had that was a couple of days old. Yummy.

Hotdogs: we've been getting into them lately. How do you like yours? We attempted to make them Chicago style the other week with onions, sweet relish, mustard and tomatoes. Today I had mine with just mustard and ketchup. Amor likes them with chili and cheese. A few years ago we deep-fried them - now THAT'S the shit. I'm serious.

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Amor just told me that he's been watching me as I type my paper and shit and I didn't know I did this but he says I rub my head every few minutes to stimulate myself to stay awake or alert or something. He's looking at my hair and says it's "Crazy Go Nuts"!

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I love this guy.

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If I had my way, I'd be driving one of these.

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