great. i have a dratted unauthorised late paper. two in fact. and the funny thing is i didn't think this was going to happen. i thought that - once i got my thesis in i would be able to turn my mind fully to those things that i've neglected - but in fact, i am a) so exhausted from those 8 days of intense work that - i never quite got the energy and concentration back to work on anything else b) so interested in the thesis that i really don't want to do anything else but to finish my fourth chapter and to seriously revamp the horrible prose of what i had turned in. and c) propelled into holiday mood as soon as the thesis was turned in and refusing to work anymore d) suddenly aware of how insipid the rest of my classes are and that i had only been happy because i had the thesis - even though i complained a bloody good deal about it - and now that it is over nothing else seems worth doing much. i believe the expression von uses is "this is the way the academic cookie crumbles"

and i really am tired. i wonder if i'm coming down with something.