I had intended to spend most of this weekend working on the essay that’s due Thursday, but here we are at nine o-clock on Sunday evening, and I’ve written all of two paragraphs. Between too-late nights and Olof’s birthday yesterday and general last-days-of-a-too-long-break kid craziness, I never could make myself focus for long enough to make any real progress. For some unknown reason, the kids don’t go back to school until Tuesday, so I’ll still have a houseful tomorrow, and Tuesday I’m pretty tied up with other things. Olof has said that he can be home on Wednesday and Thursday to let me get some uninterrupted time, so it looks like it’ll be pretty much down to the wire.