Present Evany sometimes doesn’t take the best care of Future Evany. Present Evany will often watch television late into the night, leaving Future Evany to pick up the pieces later. And of course when Present Evany wakes up the next morning to find herself stuck with the fate of Future Evany — looming deadlines with maddenly crunched time and deprived sleep — suddenly it’s Past Evany who’s the big villain. We all hate Past Evany.

Edited to add: what an ideal moment to point to friend Jay‘s FutureMe service (self-addressed emails sent back…to the future)! And thanks, too, to friend Becky for both the futureme reminder and the safety-in-numbers sanity check.