The secret ingredient is salt

Here is what I will be doing today: scanning slides of the American West from the 1950's. Here is what I would like to be doing today: sneakily going out to the van, driving to a theatre to watch the new Harry Potter movie, getting a haircut and then spending the rest of the afternoon reading a book outside under a shade tree whilst snacking on lemon cookies. Alas. Yeah, the day actually started out fine today, but then a couple things happened that put me in a funk, so now I'm trying to devise a way to get my groove back. Well, who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and the power will go out in the building and I'll get to leave early today. One advantage of working at an urban campus is that every summer somebody's doing some construction on something, and they invariably knock out an electric cable, so our power goes off. It hasn't happened yet this year, so we're due for one. Hey, negligent construction worker who's distracted and half high on meth, I'm counting on you! Do it!