The Road to Positivity:

involves a lot of tripping. Today (meaning the past two and a half days) has been very eventful, but I couldn't really say I've accomplished much. Except for one major achievement which was my Petrarch essay. I have no idea how I once again put off writing an essay that I had two weeks to do, until the night before it was due. Amazingly, I told myself at eight thirty last night to take a twenty minute nap, then got up when my alarm went off (including token 30 mins of snooze) and set out to plan an evening or serious work. Somehow I managed to read an entire English translation of Petrarch's Secretum, an entire article in Modern Languages Notes, which is in itself a fantastic discovery - I don't really sit around and read literary journals, but this one seems pretty good stuff - AND wrote a "serious" (-my tutor) essay on the lyrical sequence of the Canzoniere. Whatever. It's not going to happen again. Cause when I had finished the essay, I took a friend's advice and celebrated. Unfortunately, as I am still trying to figure out my year abroad, when 20 minutes later this morning, the person that handles a certain internship I covet called about going to Rome for an interview sometime next week. Needless to say the lack of sleep and other factors left me very confused. I forgot ALL my Italian and started laughing so I hope things actually work out in the end.

SO - With my weekly essay out of the way, Tuesdays are for organising myself. Imagine then how every notion of doing such was thrown to the wind when I received the following email:

Dear XXX,

We've recently opened up thefacebook at a school you requested! Go to www.thefacebook.com to register and make sure to tell your friends!

thefacebook team.

I don't think I'm going to get anything done this term.