*wibble* My to-do list is so awful...

Live journal has decided not to email me any of my comments. *sleepy glare at server*

Happy birthday, patosan! Happy birthday, Roger (who is finally not jail-bait and thus can be sexed up on a regular basis)!

In other news. I'm very tired, have far too much work that Must Be Done Today, and would really like to curl up in a corner and die right now... Instead of that, however, I'm posting my to-do list. Deal with it. (As always, I'm putting up the stupid little things so that I may feel slightly better whenever I accomplish something, even if it's stupid.)

[x] read for Brit Lit (BEFORE 12:00)
[x] fill out the Madonna of Excelsior take-home quiz
[x] read the Greenblatt essays on Tempest and colonization
[x] go to the library to find/copy sources
[x] construct a thesis for Idris paper
[x] outline Idris paper
[x] write Idris paper
[x] clean closet
[x] go to work
[x] make the bed
[x] get dressed

edit: I crossed one thing off my to-do list (get dressed)! Go me! *happy dance*

School work is bad.

...today is the most useless work day ever. *yawn* I had a fifteen-minute appointment when I walked through the door and nothing to do until class at twelve. Ah, well. I'll just sit here. And knock more stuff off my to-do list. And wish there was a library and a scanner here with which I could do research for this stupid, stupid paper. And... that's about it.

The good news? I managed to make up a thesis. Pulled it right out of my butt, I'll have you know.

Due to linguistic colonization, Caliban is forced to communicate with the world through a borrowed language and is thus depicted as a Wild Man in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

What do you guys think? It's kind of shoddy, I know, but I think I can make it work. I'll have to read Greenblatt's essay (from A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism, pages 319-338) and find two other sources in the library, but it's doable. I'll visit the library after MD History to see if I can find anything (and find out whether or not I can work the copier. Eeek), and if I can't find anything there then I will scourge my History of the English Language textbook from last spring for relevant information and do some net-browsing. He discourages the use of the Internet in his papers (we are limited to one net source, and even then it has to meet certain guidelines), but drastic times call for drastic measures.

I can do it. Yay me. ^.^

The quiz for History will have to be looked at as well, but I had so much trouble simply paying attention to the book that I'm afraid it will be a half-assed assignment. *sigh* Maybe I can bug Siera and Thomas into giving me a hand. That would be pretty swanktastic.

Okay! I'm going to stop spamming your f-lists now. ^^;;; Sorry. Go about your lives.

edit:
I have managed a very rough outline of my paper! Given that I have, as of yet, No Research At All, this was not an easy task. So I just decided which paragraphs get to go where instead. ^.^ Therefore, I am posting this for my benefit... not yours.

I. Introduction.
II. Explain the concept of the Rennaisance Wild Man and how it applies to Caliban
III. Explain the importance of language to colonization
IV. Explain how Caliban is restricted by language
V. Further pontification
VI. Conclusion