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It's really just about time for me to write my final paper of the semester. Unfortunately (although appropriately), I stopped attending that class a few weeks before it officially ended, having deemed it a waste of my time, 100 minutes every week of my life that I wouldn't get back. (This makes me think about modern conceptions of time as money or commodity, or as moveable or transferable, and it reminds me of a paper I helped my sister Jill with this semester.)

It is only after 4:30PM tomorrow that I should be thinking about these things--currently, my mission revolves around forming 10 or 12 pages of articulated {something} about Women Strike for Peace, a group of women who left their homes in 1961 to protest the strontium-90 found in their milk as a result of nuclear testing. I wonder if this paper will proceed at all like the one I wrote on the Japanese Bluestockings Journal, published between 1911 and 1923. The history of feminism is always incredibly interesting to me, probably because I yearn to see the connections between then (them) and now (myself).

The plan, therefore, is to caffeinate, to eat, to set up shop at the Rock, and to write this last final paper before I forget that I'm not actually finished for the semester. I packed all of my clothing last night, before going to bed. Unfortunately, I also have 100+ pounds of books to box as well, (no word of a lie, 32 rather important volumes currently checked out from the libraries + my own personal collection which, stupidly, I take with me nearly everywhere). ACK I have so much crap. Move-out is always like punishment.

I did finish my Paris photo book, which now looks incredible I think. I also read a few books during this finals period, indicative of my relatively spread-out if not easy schedule. Additionally, my new apartment = very very awesome. I'm living there with Anne this summer, as well as a guy I don't know yet named Curtis, but he seems nice as well. I bought the desk I really wanted from the previous tenant, which I think helped both of us out. Move-in is June 1st, although I can barely even wait until then.

Now, I dress up and get out of here for real. Have the faith, and wish me luck.