No rest for the wicked.

I just suddenly remembered that I have to give a ten-minute mini presentation on my seminar paper on Tuesday. Fortunately, there's a real sense that things should be kept low-key and under that ten-minute mark so it's not a huge strain. But still, it was rough to abruptly realize the existence of yet another thing that needs to be done soon.

Yikes.

At any rate, in all other matters (except for the seminar readings, which, I admit, I've really kind of lost interest in) I'm doing okay. Chinese and Japanese are in decent shape for now, and the conference paper draft is very nearly done. I just need to finish the section on the Lotus Sutra, write the conclusion, and tidy up my footnotes. So that's alright.

And I was also able to go shopping and carve out time for John Huston's The Asphault Jungle, which was great but gut-wrenching. Now I'll go drop off the Netflix in the postbox. Then I'll finish up the paper and see what can be done about reading the cursed seminar articles.

Anyway, this is another boring post. I'm doing NaBloPoMo, which is why you're being subjected. Ordinarily, I'd leave you all in peace. ;>

And another thing...

...you'd think that when someone begins a film commentary with the statement "most moviegoers only get 40% of a film the first time out" that said commentator was preparing to actually talk about the stuff you might allegedly have missed, but apparently that doesn't always follow.

Just an observation.