I like the month of March. I like the way it sounds, how it feels in my mouth. I like that it makes me think of Mulder and Scully and the color blue, that it's the slow, easy start of spring---not as slow here in the South as it was in the Midwest, granted. But I like it. I like March. Just not *this* March.

Despite a lovely trip home for spring break, this month is shaping up to be one long, torturous process. Statistics and official government documents. New acronymns and esoteric vocabulary. Group project meetings and regurgitated factoids. Book reports and library design/service analysis. HTML design and authoritative/valuable websites. Fluttering fantasy thoughts and pressing, pressing, *pressing* deadlines.

This month has 31 days, and that's at least ten days too short.

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