I watched my friends' dogs over the weekend while laboring to get the final exercise done for class so I can give my full attention to the paper that I've barely started. She pushed the due date back to Friday, thankfully.

A few nights ago I read the first book in the Spiderwick Chronicles series. It was pretty good, even though the books are apparently the victims of some overzealous marketing director at Simon & Schuster. The author, Holly Black, has a blog, where she calls Firefly "painfully dull." I am trying to remember that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, no matter how wrong they might be.