going-away party conversation

I'm sorry, everybody, I know I have a ton of comments to reply to.  Not enough sleep last night because of the going-away party for one of our managers.  Very quiet party (he himself doesn't drink, so everyone else had one or two early on and then stopped.)

( mostly rambling relating one conversation on books and society )

Argh, must run.  So much I need to do - I owe email to at least five people.  Not going to happen today.  Yet again.  And here I go feeling guilty about the fact that I didn't send my mother an email two days ago.  Yesterday was her birthday.  Right?  Oh, no, wait, it was even the day before that.  Shoot.  I suck. 

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My apologies for the non-working mindmap thingy taking up space on your friends pages.  It's just wrong anyhow, so I have deleted it.