These people below me are driving me nuts! The store right underneath my window is renovating to become a tea shop. I like that it'll be a tea shop, but right now it's constant construction noise and drilling and throwing of things into dumpsters and just a lot of general noise.
none the less, I actually did some real work done last night. I just sat down and started writing. I meant to get an outline down and some of the questions that I wanted to ask down in writing before meeting with my supervisor tomorrow and I just kind of kept writing. I probably could have written more, but it became 3:00 in the morning and I thought I should just finish it up and go to bed. It was meant to be extremely rough after all. The problem is that it turned out to be around 2,600 words and most (more than half) of what I wanted to say was only outlined and not argued or delved into. The maximum is 4,000. Gah. You'd think I culd control myself and/or pick a topic that wouldn't get ubsurdly too long. It's alright. I think I'll manage. I just have to control some of my more dramatic, long winded tendancies to look into every little detail. Like the lion up top, I wrote a page about it's spots. That's right, don't you wish you were in classics? The sad thing is that I actually find it really interesting. I mean come on... how can you not find a concentric circle patterning that doesn't interact with the base form of the animal (be it lion or leopard) interesting? It raises so many issues about perception of ornament and it's use towards beautification and conceptual design, not just in pediment sculpture but in Greek art in general... right. Don't worry, I know I'm a dork.
Although, I am still feeling proud of myself. I don't have a main argument yet, but it's happening. and I feel like I'm making good connections between things and that I can make a good paper out of this. I think that I need to do that not just for my first paper topic, but start doing some writing for my thesis as well. Just not right now. I'll do some Greek today, but otherwise I'm giving the reading a rest for this evening. I'll talk with my supervisor tomorrow and go from there.
I managed to score some family guy dvd's from Kates (and now my) friend T so that makes me happy, there's only so much reading I can do in one day and it's much better than watching the paint dry while eating lunch. I just have to be careful not to watch them all immediately, Space them out a little.