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half a paper.

Well, that was surprisingly productive. I wrote half of my review of literature paper today. I'd actually read my sources ahead of time, underlining passages which referred to interesting facts or referenced common themes I'd seen elsewhere and wanted to point out different aspects of. I'm still utterly uninterested in my subject, and I usually skim for the parts I need rather than actually read my sources, but it's actually getting done--I have five pages and seven cited sources (I need ten and ten), though not all of the sources are explained in depth. I'm a bit surprised that I can actually understand research papers. These aren't very complicated research papers, but still, either the jargon is kept to a minimum, or I've somehow absorbed said jargon over the last few months.

To the right, you'll notice one of those paintings I had mentioned a few days ago, this one by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, who the Art Renewal Center has a tremendous hard-on for. I've been trying to think of how to explain what I like about this piece, and I've come up with absolutely nothing. It's... real pretty. It's like he painted the material world, but even prettier. That doesn't say much, but there you have it. He also had a habit of painting little girls, which I read as deeply creepy, but maybe it was something utterly un-creepy that we don't have in our culture nowadays. As I've said before, I know just about nothing about art, and the ARC's essays confuse me.

Carin and I went up to Rick's this evening. We got Indian food (Rick got something which looked like a miniature peat bog, but tasted quite good), sat around and shot the breeze before going back to his place and watching the first half of The Mask of Zorro. I thought I'd seen it before, but all the good clean swashbuckling fun was quite new to me. I'd spent too much time writing my paper, and then we'd spent too much time talking, to finish it, but isn't that worlds better than doing it the other way 'round?

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