<div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcia-s/384119727/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/384119727_27f1f84965_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="face of despair" /></a></div>I'm sitting at a coffee shop with a stack of shitty freshman comp papers in front of me; I have to have them marked by tomorrow. In accordance with the Mary Poppins "spoon full of sugar" method, I've just consumed a mixed berry scone. I'm sorry to report that it has so far not helped the medicine go down.