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I'm home, on Friday night. I don't have any plans. I suppose I could curl up with my copy of Thucydides and give it a more thorough reading than it needs. My professor has said numerous times now that part of the reason he assigned so many books for his course is to help us grad students learn the fine art of skimming. This is Dudley, for Sea Power. It's a really interesting class. I am very glad that I decided to take it, and take it now. Some of the second years are trying to deal with the eight(!) books we need to read in addition to their field school. Not fun.


Other options for tonight include going to see the free ten o'clock showing of Shrek 2, since I still haven't seen it, and it is free. I repeated that on purpose ;) free things are important to us student-types ;) It will be nice to get out and do something different, but still kind of lonely to do it alone. Maybe I will be brave and send an e-mail to the other people in the program to see if anyone would want to come with me, or if someone has a better plan. Well, a better plan that they could include me in would be ideal ;) Since it only starts at ten, I could still read some Thucydides. He's pretty easy to skim, really. "There was a sea fight. The Lacedaemonians thought they just might win, but Athens kicked their asses. Lather, rinse, repeat." I feel bad for Sparta ;)

I should have dinner at some point. I cooked beef for nachos last night, so it shouldn't be too difficult to manage. However, I was very clever and wore white pants, and am reconsidering the wisdom of messy food.

Oh, yes, my scent of the day today is Bayou. I like it, especially once it settles down some. It has a lot of the same sharp organic scents that I really like in Omen. It must be the mosses, then? It is their only common factor. Bayou also has some more musky, flowery scents though. I like Omen better, but wouldn't turn my nose up at this one. BPAL says: A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms. An additional bonus is that it has stayed with me more or less all day. It is weaker now, but it is still there. Some of the scents that I have actually liked the most (notably hecate and Three Witches) fade on me in less than two hours, which is incredibly dissapointing.