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Only five or six more hours and I get to go home. I want to take it easy tonight, as I’m going off on retreat and am leaving at 6am for the Tassajara monastery. I’ll need to get plenty of sleep tonight. I think I’ll go to

Thursday is my last day at work. I’m getting pretty excited about leaving the workaday world, and I’ve been starting to get real bad about getting to sleep at a reasonable hour. Last night, or very early in the morning we had a power outage here, and I

Slept until 1:30pm today. I hate letting the day go down the drain like that. Of course, there’s plenty of time in the day to do a lot of things–I’ll be going to Alameda soon to see Erik’s new deck and maybe watch High Noon.

I went to the drycleaners to pick up my only suit, which I bought in 1995 in anticipation of Matt and Mallory Diedrich’s wedding. The suit didn’t quite fit then; the jacket was fine, but the pants needed to be let out as far as they could be

Woke up early enough to exercise or meditate, but did neither. I did however make oatmeal for the second time, and put about a third the brown sugar in that I did last time. It was tasty, even if it lacked the reminiscent flavor of instant oatmeal from childhood. Progress

I had a day at work that was not too stressful. If I had a few more like this I might not have given notice on Friday. Nothing earthshaking today, but I managed to balance my email and my productivity at work, not feeling I’d fallen behind in either

I made oatmeal for the very first time this morning. Tasty! Also discovered how much brown sugar one has to put in to “real” oatmeal in order for it to taste like the instant stuff I grew up with. Scary. Really disturbing. Probably 8-10 teaspoons for one-half a cup of