it's that time of the semester again...

I don't think I actually got to sleep until 3:00 this morning. I was working until 1:30, and then I couldn't get my brain to shut off. What I really needed last night was for somebody to come take the book out of my hand and tell me I was going to bed whether I wanted to or not. In consequence, I slept a lot later than I wanted to this morning and only got three more glossary entries done this afternoon. Sigh.

However, now I've got a very rough draft of my final translation, and I've got the beginnings of my presentation written, and I've got some supplementary stuff to go with the presentation. It occurred to me this afternoon that since the play I'm presenting is six acts long, I don't need to do a tremendously detailed summary of it. Three minutes per act and I'll be almost out of time. Most of the six acts are long enough to have more than three minutes' worth of things to say about them, besides.

I haven't even started thinking about the paper yet, beyond the general idea of what I want to write about. Either the paper or the glossary project should just go the hell away and leave me alone, because they won't both fit in my head at the same time. Whichever one I'm thinking about, I feel like I should be thinking about the other one.

The weather is not helping. Sometimes I think it's more depressing when it's overcast and not raining than it is when it's overcast and raining.

Argh.