My senior paper is done and turned in! Now I'm free as a bird.
...until I have to start studying for finals and writing a ten-page paper for English. Also I still have to keep up on the reading in my other classes that's been sliding while I finished this dang thing.
Still, it's one weight off my shoulders, and that should make it easier to carry the others.
So, I finally quit whining about how much I wanted to go and actually went to go see Brokeback Mountain. And yes, it was everything I hoped it would be.
Actually, that's not completely true. It had far fewer tittilating love scenes between Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger than I expected, which I'll admit I wanted to see. But it packed such an emotional punch, it more than makes up for it.
I sometimes read the Leonard Pitts columns that run in the Miami Herald. The website always posts the temperature at the top of the page, and it always makes me feel cold, even though the weather is getting warmer here. (Some days, we break 40 degrees now!) I want the 66 degree weather they're having, and you better believe I'll be equally jealous when April brings in 80 degree weather in Miami.
So...six of the last seven posts were written on Sundays and Tuesdays. I'm not sure what that means, except that I only have one class on Tuesdays, and on Sundays I like to procrastinate via blogging.
My senior paper is a pain in the tookus. I have used eight solid sources so far (including one where I read/skimmed the entire book), and over 100 notecards. In a little less than two weeks, that needs to turn itself into a ten to fifteen-page paper with at least ten sources. What I have so far is opinionated drivel that's not solidly supported by fact. But then, my topic can't necessarily be proven. I'm writing about campaign finance reform, specifically the 2002 McCain-Feingold bill. One of the provisions of the new law is a ban on "electioneering communications", which are advertisements that have a slant of supporting or opposing a candidate but are paid for by a corporation, interest group, or labor union without using a PAC, in the thirty days before a primary election and the 60 days before a general election. My thesis is that this ban is unconstitutional because it is a broad-reaching ban on political speech, which is protected by the First Amendment. If you want to hear more, let me know and I'll post the finished product on here.
I feel like a nap. Or Chinese food. Or having Chinese food and then taking a nap after the MSG knocks me out.
Oh, and I totally recommend the movie Waiting, though it kinda makes me not want to work in a restaurant, the way Office Space makes you not want to work in an office.
Chris and I finally caved to technology and are getting cell phones! So, I'll get that number out in the near future to those of you who might want it.
