revelations 4:20

epiphanies of the day (and not a bible passage):

- never try to force something open with a large knife. you will stab yourself. and it will hurt. and it will of course happen at a time when you need to use that hand to type an essay. and you will wrap it with your superior first aid skills instead of going to a doctor, which is probably the right thing to do.

- the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" pretty much sums up my entire undergrad degree. SMH.

- Dean Rusk was kind of a dick. And John Diefenbaker was a complete idiot. And W.R. Smyser is brilliant. just saying.

- writing a history paper is an enlightening, time consuming, and ultimately useless endeavour. No one will read it, or care what it says, outside of the 10 minutes spent by your professor. sigh.

- 35 page papers should be against the law.

- NEVER. TAKE. SEMINAR. CLASSES. ... EVER.

almost there

so defeated lately. need OUT.

all-star

crunch, crunch.

Let's talk about an essay. You think you do a lot of research? You ain't seen nothing yet.

- 32 library books at the moment, and hopefully at least one more. 10 of which, at least, are memoirs.
- 27 newspaper articles. and counting.
- let's not even get started on stuff from library and archives canada. If you've never looked at documents from external affiairs, or cabinet conclusions, please don't start now. I'm gonna put the total number of pgs at well over 100.
- 3 dissertations (PhD, of course)
- ... and more.

This mammoth of an essay better be worth it. So close... yet so far.