cimorene

done: two exams @ 5/5 apiece, 3 large projects (substituting for one exam), a third exam not yet graded
still to do: 30 pages of translation from norwegian this week (incl. tomorrow morning); one medium-sized project by thursday, after that one more slightly smaller; two class meetings' worth of grammar- and composition-related busywork, some by tomorrow and some by thursday
still to attend: 2 meetings of spanish, one of sociological methodology

after which, unconnected with school: christmas decorating and baking, christmas things to mail.

so that's why i haven't been online. after about one week of reading it in all my spare time i finished conflict and compromise in multilingual societies: finland, which was really fascinating, but which left me in the sort of state of mind that led me to compare my instant sugary choco-cappuccino beverage to the country of finland. (there's a socio-demographic element and a time element to the analogy, which you don't want to hear.)