so many

other things I want to be doing as well, but time is running very short, so here's some more items I'll just have to read later:

Olympic Torch Run in Paris Halted as Protests Spread

How to Spark an Energy Quest

Chauffeur and Paparazzi Blamed in Diana's Death

In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined - about the rise in Philosophy majors, which I am all for. If I knew then what I know now, I would have taken a third minor at the very least.

French Theory in America - I like this trend today! The two of the top ten emailed articles at the moment are about Thought, for goodness sake.

That's enough for now. I'm really starting to freak about this thesis, but I can totally do this. I have not waited to the last minute, even though I could not turn it in right now of course. I have been working extremely hard on this thing, ridiculously long hours many days, I have the material, I just have to organize it and make it all bright and shiny. I can do that. First on today's agenda: continue organizing the material I have for Cat's Cradle, which at the moment totals 7700 words, which is more than enough - too much! in fact. Then I will do the same for Castle, which I have over 12,000 words for, and then Pale Fire, with 10k words, the first 1300 of which are quite lovely. Today is about organizing and trimming - getting rid of that which we don't need. Deep breaths. Lots of caffeine.

And the White Album. (This montage is making me hungry...)

Update: Kurt Vonnegut joke:
"One of his favorite jokes was about a guy who was smuggling wheelbarrows. Every day for years and years, a customs agent would carefully search through this guy's wheelbarrow.
Finally, when he was about to retire, the customs agent asked the guy, "We've become friends. I've searched your wheelbarrow every day for many years. What is it you're smuggling?"
"My friend, I am smuggling wheelbarrows."
--from Mark Vonnegut's Introduction to the newly released collection of heretofore unpublished short stories by his late father, entitled Armageddon in Retrospect, which I will be purchasing as soon as I turn in my thesis.