401 Paper

[sarabandeness]

I've finally actually begun to write my 10-page paper that's due on Thursday. I know it seems late in the game, but for my procrastinating self three days in advance is actually pretty early. Even so, I was stressing out a lot earlier today, because I could barely find any information on my chosen topic. I decided that at this point, the smartest thing to do would be to change my thesis, so I did, but remained within the same broad idea so I can use all the books I've already browsed through and taken out from the library. Now I'm pretty confident that everything will be ok. I guess that's how my mind works: when I don't know how to go about doing something, and it's completely disorganized, I get frustrated, but once I know what I'm doing and develop a step-by-step process towards completion of said project, I'm content, no matter how much work I know it will take, or how little sleep I know I'll get between now and when I finish.

I decided I really need to expand my knowledge of popular (meaning non-classical) music. I also noticed that Charles and my sister listen to some of the same music, and I've always liked the music Elisabeth listens to (I think growing up in a musical household gave her good taste in all genres, even though she decided not to pursue music as a career). So I asked Charles about it, and he  made five mp3 CDs for me when I was in Philly... which is a lot of music!  I really like everything so far, and  it's great to have good new music to listen to.