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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
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11:27a - Breathing Easier
I am exhuasted, having spent all night working at this essay. I know I've done too much again, but I still need more...typing up the useful quotes from the major course text turned out to take around 15 hours in total, with about 6000 words from 40 pages. It's useful in giving me an overview in Japanese-American relations from 1931 to 1941, but being the same source, I can't simply rely on that. The problem is that the question is essentially "Did the US provoke Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor?", and thus there are vast mountains of useful sources out there to choose from. There's also so many issues to consider, from whether it was all predestined from the Manchurian Incident onwards (it certainly began then, at least), right through to whether FDR set up Pearl Harbor himself (I doubt it).
I did, however, get the extension, and furthermore, an extension until Monday, so I can now relax over nationalist liberalism and focus on getting Pearl Harbor out of the way. There is a way out afterall. I still feel guilty for having to resort to it though. My own standards are too high for me. I'm glad to have the pressure released. I'm planning on going home after my German Translation lesson, having some proper food for lunch, and then catching up on sleep until the evening, whereupon I shall begin the marathon of pulling the various sources together into a coherent narrative that states moreorless that both sides provoked the other, just like two squabbling boys who both plead the other started it.
Pleasantly, the three people sitting behind me right now are all looking at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) writers_grimm, a creative writing project set up at Holloway by some creative writing students. In my role as Writers' Circle coordinator, I formed an alliance with them last week, even though they're independent of the SU. Still, geekdom of any sort makes me happy.
What does not make me happy ( is the lying, demented cleaner who devours innocent posessions in the name of a crusade against eternal mess ) To all RHUL students: if you happen to be in the International Building around 7am on a weekday, make sure you keep all your belongings very close to you before the crazy cleaner from Anti-mess-land gets to it.
current mood:  exhausted
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