Tattoo

I have just tattooed myself.

Not because I am a DIY fanatic, not because my tattoo shop did not offer the nifty Dark Mark pattern I wanted, but because I tried to shove my cat from my desk and impaled my arm on my calligraphy pen.

Now I have a little cross on my lower arm and cannot wash the ink out because of the neat cross shape of the wound.

I am about to award myself the klutz award '05, can anyone compete?

Done

Go me!
Just finished my paper on "Time and Overcoming Time in Shakespeare's Sonnets". Not good, but it's a nice basis for some real research. I'll maybe come back to the topic. What others had to say was somehow not really precise, either.

12,990 words. They'll have my head on a plate. But then, it includes half a dozen sonnets, so it's not really that much.

Now I have half a week in which I will do absolutely nothing and then, there is the second term paper, on structuralism and narratology. Maybe I'll have a closer look at Toolan's approach, or I'll try and do something on characters, I've always wanted to do that.

In spite of all the whining, the bitching, the deadlines, the angst, I love writing papers, I more and more realise that. Even this one. The topic was great, but the fact that I only had three weeks sucked big time.