Irons in the fire

As I was driving to get Margaret from her sitter (no school today because it's election day and apparently children can't learn and teachers can't teach if people are out there enacting their right as American citizens to cast their ballot — huh), I realized that I'd left work without updating here.

I have no excuse except that I was writing a column that will be published this Sunday (I think), so my free time was all full up of work.

Then when I was done, I did have some free time but I totally wasted it by grading the exams I gave yesterday in class — what a waste of time that was. I mean, really, getting my work for my second job done at my first job instead of updating my blog. 'the hell?

So now instead of spending some needed time with my kid, I've left her alone upstairs with Mike Rowe — she likes him better anyway (she's taken to calling me her stepmother because — as she says — I mean to her sometimes. Whatever.).