Ok, it's 8:30 AM. I woke up at 7:45, then the birds woke up and started going berzerk so I took care of them....then poked around on PC a bit.... now I am going to take a shower and start that paper.

I don't feel any better today. But it doesn't matter because the paper is what's important. People who want to get into doctoral school cannot sit around wallowing in depression and not doing schoolwork. Now I'm going to kick myself in the ***.