how do you make time fly?

i think the proper punchline to this joke is something like "throw a clock out the window", but you know what works just as well? any combination of the following:

1. take a few finals,
2. try to finish up a seminar paper,
3. fit in quality time with friends,
4. have a few amazing phone conversations with a certain boy,
5. wrap up loose ends before going away for 2 weeks

yesterday it hit me like a ton of bricks that christmas is in, like, six days! i'm leaving for home on thursday morning. between now and then i've got to do laundry; clean my apartment; make sure i've got food and litter on hand for milo and kenobi, since sandy and michael and steph are looking after the little guys for me; and pack for my trip. oh! and there's that whole finish-up-a-seminar-paper thing... better get on that... like now.

but the good news is that i'll be bored out of my mind when i'm in mississippi for two weeks, so i'll have plenty of time for fun-filled blog posts of all my shenanigans. whoop. big whoop.

and i'm making a list (and checking it twice) of books (real books!) to read while i'm home. if anybody's got some good suggestions, bring them on.