Four Pages Down.

Have not been up to too much this weekend. I've been working on catching up on my 123 pages of outstanding Western Civ reading. It's done now, thank goodness. I've been prioritizing my homework schedule by which classes are going to transfer over to UPS as more than elective credit (ie WesternCiv, German, and Marketing)--the three classes I am doing the most disappointing in right now. I have the "first version" of my Flannery O'Connor paper due on Thursday (although mine needs to be done Wednesday, since I'll be in Barcelona); so I've been doing a lot of research reading on that, and I now have four pages done. I have no idea how I'm going to contain it to only ten pages, seeing as I have only written about half as much as I need on O'Connor's biography, about half as much as I need to on "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and I haven't even started writing about "Revelation," comparing and contrasting the stories, and relating it all back to O'Connor's Catholic background, and then concluding!! I'm going to need more than six pages to do all that in. Ahh, I think I might need to cut down my topic, but I'm not sure how. Maybe I should just use "A Good Man is Hard to Find?" I would, except that I love "Revelation." I'll keep you updated.

I also went and saw the school production of Dracula; it was all right, but I still think that CWA's production was better. They also used a different script for this one. I also watched Love Actually last night; that was good; also did some cleaning. And I decided today that something had to be done with the rest of that cookie dough that I made last Sunday, so I finished baking it. I went down and turned on the oven to preheat it, and when I came back five minutes later, someone had stolen it from me. So I went back upstairs, and I came down again, ten minutes later, and someone else had stolen it from me! How terrible is that?

There's going to be a Girasole Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner on Tuesday, so I think I'm going to bring mashed potatoes and gravy. Then on Wednesday night the school dining hall is putting on a Thanksgiving dinner, so I'm going to that too. I really want my Flannery O'Connor paper to be done. I think I might talk to Christina Bell (the writing center director) about it tomorrow when I'm technically supposed to be working--I only "worked" on Monday last week; she had nothing for me to do on Wednesday or Friday, so I just left. And tomorrow I need to go to Agno, where the Lugano Airport is and have my ticket changed. I am going to get this done before I go to Barcelona! In any case, I think I'm going to take a break from writing and work on the Marketing reading I need to catch up on. Time to work again.

Ah, but I forgot to mention that I went for a walk for a little more than an hour today. It was nice; although I spent a fair portion of my walking time contemplating why the tens and tens of toddlers I was surrounded by were better dressed than me. I guess that's what I get for being a Washingtonian in Lugano. Miss you! Smile, Ari