"first post from chrome" or "you shook my brain casing all day long"

chrome is pretty cool.  i like the concept, i like the execution (aesthetically)...but it's pretty obviously a beta and i've already singlehandedly discovered like 3-4 glaring operational flaws.  

i totally brutalized my students with expositional information today for 45 minutes.  i felt a bit bad about this.  i'm still learning how to cope with only have 50 minutes for a class again, too, so i planned too little and they got out way early.  shit.  and there's so much to do.  i've felt like shit pretty much since my quasi-breakdown yesterday (maybe more on that later), so i guess maybe that was a good thing about getting done early, even though i felt i was being disingenuous.  all nice talk and no substance.  i can't wait to actually get into the material and feel like we're covering something.  then maybe i'll feel like my life has a purpose again.  yeah, that's normal...

anyway, i have a massive-ass headache and some lingering scraps of madness from last night, both of which are MURDEROUSLY EXACERBATED BY THE FACT THAT THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OUTSIDE ARE LITERALLY JACKHAMMERING INTO THE FOUNDATION OF THE BUILDING AND HAVE BEEN FOR HOURS.  

i'm serious.  i have some experience with jackhammers, so i know what i'm hearing.  and jesus fucking christ, i understand most of the this "beautification" shit "needs" done and all that, but good fucking god couldn't you schedule some of the work being done ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ACADEMIC BUILDINGS for times that aren't THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING DAY ON THE BUSIEST DAY OF THE WEEK?  

i feel like there are mutated porcupines rolling around on the surface of my brain.