To-Do 12/5: reasonable mood based on qualified successes

I did manage to read 30 pages yesterday, which is more than the day before and more than I'd thought that I would read, so that is good! I get so annoyed at my own reading pace - the longer I've been someone who, basically, reads for a living, the slower my reading has gotten. It's extremely careful reading, and I take a lot of notes and draw a lot of hearts in the margins (crucial) but still, it takes for fucking ever. And this Stein book has big pages and tiny text! So unfair! So it's slow going, which freaks me out.

Also I'm reading Melanctha now, which is super duper racist, and I'm going to have to read the criticism afterwards to come to terms with it, but anyway that makes it even slower going.

BUT I did manage to do all the dishes and do some reading and look after the dog and myself yesterday, so that's something. Today is a day of getting some errands done, I think.

To-Do:

1) walk the dog
2) read more of Three Lives
3) try to finish Melanctha
4) get books out of the library
5) go to the ISSO
6) tutor 3:30-5:30 (last shift of the semester! thank goodness)
7) pay the rent
8) call AAA
9) call insurance place
10) do some budgeting
11) cry helplessly for a while because I am so stressed about money

Wish me luck! God, the money things make me sick to my stomach. I hate money things so much.