a little cross because someone has left their alarm on and gone home, and it's the sort that doesn't turn off until someone turns it off. it has been going off approximately every minute for the last 10 minutes and is disrupting my already underdeveloped concentration while i am trying to write. wish i had earmuffs. finally one of my essays is coming together, but now i have to write it into proper sentences. perhaps it's safe to leave it now that i've got the idea and organisation i might want to tinker with my other essays first. i have 2 to make up abt 12 pages. need to turn the other two (one on marriage tales = oedipus pericles and turandot and one on merchant of venice casket scene + sequence and chains + fairy tale gold-silver-lead motif + byatt and the necessity of tales) into about 10 pages. think i can do that if i can organise my ideas. i've concluded, unwillingly but what to do, it's true, that i am too superficial in thinking about things, which is why i need to stuff so many different things into an essay instead of picking one or two and writing more fully about them. ei mihi.