the plumbers finally got the water on and there are leaks all through the house from frozen pipes so now they're punching holes in the plaster everywhere and god only knows how much more this is going to cost . . . aaaaaand the president of the faculty counsel just abruptly went out on sick leave (lung cancer), thus making me the defacto and unpaid president until further notice (which is obviously worse for him than for me) (but still, a pain in my ass) . . . aaaaaand it's barely noon, the semester off with a bang (to my face at short range)