I stayed up for that?

Okay, so I enjoyed watching Star Trek, but I really should have been in bed an hour ago. I thought this might be an important day to be there. Geoff is going to be proposing to Brie somewhere public sometime soon. I had a feeling today might be it. Geoff posted some stuff earlier today about rings, was super late for Star Trek, asked Brie not to start Star Trek without him, and had something very box-shaped in his pocket. Ah, well. I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part. Brie and Geoff can't see this, by the way.

Made public: 8/17/03

Research Paper

It would be easier to work on my research paper if I wasn't confident that it will suck. At least it's going to be pretty smooth sailing after the paper is done. Sure I still have a lot of work left, but there isn't anything else that really scares me. It's tempting to not bother trying to make the paper good and just pass-fail the class, but that feels like such a whimpy thing to do, and I still *might* get a good grade. My paper for Middle English sucked too, and I still got an A-. Then again, I think that paper was worth less than this one.

Nap

I took a nap after Quantum. I had a dream that I was at home and my parents took me on a hike at night. It wasn't actually all that dark, but they wanted to go on this trail that was about 5 inches wide and 100 ft down to the ocean. I hate trails like that--narrow and a long way down if you fall off. I've become even more scared of them as I've gotten older. I think it might not really be that I'm afraid of falling so much as I am afraid of jumping. I don't trust myself near edges, so I try not to get to close.

Made public: 8/17/03

Wow

So, for my research paper, I chose 4 short pieces that all contained advice regarding what children should or should not be allowed by their parents to read. I chose these without knowing anything about the authors. Cotton Mather had 15 children, 2 of whom outlived him. Lydia Maria Child lost her mother when she was still a child. Anthony Comstock had one child who died at about 1 year old. I have not yet actually read anything about the 4th author. What do these 3 people have in common? Religion and lack of experience in the matter at hand. At least it's something to talk about?