The big paper is done!  My archival class paper, all 21 pages, is finished.  It’s not perfect, but I’ll do a bit of editing during the week.  Since it’s not due till December 4th I’m feeling pretty good about how things are going.  Of course I haven’t actually read it on paper yet.  In our paperless society we do so much of our work while looking at a monitor.  But somehow the written word cadence is more precise and lyrical to me when I read it on paper, so I expect to spend another hour or two doing editing so that it flows eloquently.  When I can I like to turn in papers that flow easily, in the hopes that a professor reading something like that will get into the prose and give me a higher grade.  Don’t know if that works, but it can’t hurt.

Also complete are two one page each critiques of my group member’s  grant proposals.  Those papers were both easier and more difficult to write.  Easier because it was a simple assignment, and short; more difficult because they are papers that the other students will be reading and I wanted to be constructive as well as critical.   Those are due next Thursday and it’s good to get them out of the way.

So what is left this semester you ask?  One final exam, two questions, five pages each question to be written the week of December 10th.  One short one page paper on my feelings about philanthropy which I could probably write in my sleep but will likely labor over, two presentations, one this week and one next week.  That’s all.  Then a lovely break spent here at home.

Katie the puppy comes home from the kennel tomorrow.  I am enjoying this puppy free day, but missing her all the same.  Life will get back to normal tomorrow.  Today I revel in completed projects and the smell of fresh baked from scratch brownies as they come out of the oven.