three big stalking things

i always loved that line in BlackAdder where someone says "disease and famine are stalking the land like....two big stalking things...."

at the moment i have my own stalkers: two papers; three presentations; two paper reviews that all need to be done very much in the sooner rather than later zone. so i am being very up beat and positive that i will get some of this under control this weekend and still have time to being a good mother. or at least a mother unlikely to be the subject of court intervention.

and i should phone my mother too.