well, i don’t have all that much to talk about today so i’ll just give the news. i turned in my first paper today and got a take-home midterm. my inter­me­di­ate film class is a lot of work. work­ing in the anthro depart­ment is not that stim­u­lat­ing although my alpha­bet­iz­ing skills are now excep­tion­al. fenc­ing prac­tice was blah, about 1/3 of the team showed up. the next half of the semes­ter after break is going to be busy as all get out. i have 2 10–15 page papers and of course my film to shoot, edit, etc. i sure hope i can han­dle it. next semes­ter i’m tak­ing it easy.