Whine!

It's immensely troublesome to need to find 12 or 16 peer-reviewed empirical articles on a subject--do articles exist? Well, yes, but they're polemics rather than anything empirical, of course--and keep persevering in the conviction that they MUST exist SOMEWHERE only to start realizing, horribly, that if they exist at all my research skills aren't up to the task.

I can't just change my topic with two days left to do the assignment.

I don't need to find 12 or 16 articles in the next two days, but I DO need to have a topic firmly decided, and it needs to be a topic on which 12 to 16 articles exist.

Aaaaugh.

Fingers ouch fingers.

Dislike: hand sewing. (I never got the hang of thimbles, so...)
Dislike more: hand sewing with self-threading needles. (Pointier eyes, and the thread falls out)
Dislike most: hand sewing with self-threading needles through several layers, such that the eye of the needle ends up getting tangled in the fabric and practically has to be cut out.

Hmm. I'll have to finish everything Tuesday night, if I'm to have any time for cleaning (hah!) on Thursday. But I cling to the belief that It Will All Get Done, because it always does.

MONKEYS.

I have an assignment due at 11:00 am that I haven't started on.