getting a study carrel in widener has done wonders for my work. this is because i'm too embarrassed to be caught blogging or surfing or chatting on icq, especially because i share my carrel with someone else and am afraid he would show up and find me blatantly looking for flower pins and lipsticks online, or reading something called fitzie's arms. i have even given up spider solitaire. and of course no music. i keep explorer on the library catalogue which i maximise the moment i hear footsteps. this is all very frustrating but forces me to do work. it is possible that if there was such an arrangement at alderman i would have got my thesis written earlier. good thing widener is so far away and i don't go as often as i should. otherwise i'd actually find myself doing real work as is not my wont.

von, on the other hand, is quite turning into me. he does no work and surfs too much and eats big dinners out. and he tells me his advisor wants a thesis draft by december. this will teach him to nag me about the way i don't do work.