I couldn’t sleep last night, so I wound up talking to Brent until three in the morning. Even after I fell asleep, I woke up several times. Still, I managed to get up by 9:30, put laundry in, eat breakfast and continue work on one of my final papers. By noon, I had twice as many pages then I started with, bringing me up to 16, which is good for a first draft. I still need to do massive editing and rearranging, but my research is basically done and I’ve pulled probably 95% of the quotes I need. So, yay!

My habit of leaving clothes/books/papers everywhere is catching up to me again. I have managed to lose a CD containing all the episodes of It’s Always Sunny and Philadelphia. I also fear that I have lost my art book from junior year, which is not replaceable. In searching for the art book I did manage to find my black turtleneck. I also discovered that I ruined the shirt I was wearing when I cleaned my kitchen last week. Bleach and navy do not go well together.

I have a meeting on Monday to talk about the progress I’ve made thus far on my thesis. I’m happy with what I’ve done so far, but these meetings are also intimidating in the “you-are-the-expert-on-Schmitt-and-thus-everything-I-say-is-silly-and-unoriginal-and-unsophisticated.” Well, maybe not unoriginal, since I am one of the only one idiotic enough to claim that the theorist most likely to be portrayed as a war-monger would not support the war on terror.

Overall though, I think I am in much better shape now than I was at this time last quarter. I basically have almost everything I need down on paper, its just a matter of making it more nuanced, and in the case of my silly liberalism paper, integrating some more Mill.

So now I’m going to go edit my LRS/Thesis draft and maybe if I’m feeling really ambitious I’ll pick up all the loose change on my floor. (I throw my change in a mug at the end of the day. I knocked over said mug a few days ago. The change has slowly spread everywhere.)

Edited Aha! I just opened one of my desk drawers hoping to find the CD and I found the art book. This means I don’t have to clean my closet in search of it!