Dammit. I was motoring along. Everything was going to work out just fine. I was on track. It's amazing how a few lines from a person on the other side of the world who I barely even know can entirely derail my day. Now I am turning in small circles, put-putting in vain. Getting dizzy. About to fall over. And my plans for essay work (highly necessary, since I have two of the suckers due very shortly) are shot to hell.

Part of me wishes this sort of thing didn't happen to me. Or at least that I didn't react like this. Another part knows that it is impossible for it not to. Such is life, and me.