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I still have several first-year first drafts to read, second-year second drafts are coming in, the guy whose translation of Heidegger I'm proof-reading is getting impatient, I've had an e-mail from my editor asking when revisions to my linguistics paper are going to be finished, and I'm supposed to finish cleaning the bathroom. But all I want to do is read Robin Hobbs' Assassin's Apprentice.

[hunkers down and tries to reason with inner child] "OK, I'll have shower and finish cleaning the bathroom, then read one more essay, and then you can have a few pages of Assassin's Apprentice, OK?"