I'm concerned that my ability to do good literary analysis is dropping, although a lot of it could have to do with the fact that I'm currently in a stupor induced by 10 hours of sleep and a large brunch. I dunno. I've been pretty intellectually lazy this semester, at least in French, which admittedly was not very inspiring - I did enjoy classics a lot, by contrast. Let us hope that it's just this particular French course.

I'm going to be writing on Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu for the final paper (and possibly a bit on Liaisons), since I love Balzac with a passionate passion, and it's the only novel for the class that I read all the way through. :X lazy, lazy, lazy. I just feel that largely I've been synthesizing ideas from the class, rather than generating.

Maybe it's partly that when reading novels, I get distracted from analysis more easily than when reading philosophy? I rocked Enlightenment philosophy this past summer, and though it was brain-killing, it was definitely more... um, crunchable.

I just re-read my first French essay from this class, though, on Liaisons and Manon Lescaut, and homg it was so incoherent. How did I get a good grade on that at all??

itinerary for when I get back to the room:
- get dollop ready for shipping
- remake star bottles that expired