Satisfied. Maybe I shouldn't rest on my laurels, but I admit I'm satisfied. I finished (volume-wise) the third draft of my Middler Year Report. It's just a second-rate 6,000 word paper that they hype up a lot. I'll post some of it here when it's more polished... And I'm halfway through a series of four 4-page papers on this one book (all on a different aspect of Russian politics and foreign policy as discussed by Dmitri Simes in Search for Significance, or something like that). It's a sad day when you're happy that you spent a lot of time doing homework on your vacation. Oh, for extracurriculur fun I'm reading Hamlet. It's good... better than your average Shakespeare, even.