Hard to believe

that it is the middle of the week already. My Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays are all my classes and tons of work and it goes by so so quickly. Have an independent study graduate reading meeting tomorrow so I've got to get through the 2nd book by 3pm. Totally fine. lol. It's true, I've become accustomed to the workload. Found out that my first draft of my big 700 paper isn't due until after Spring Break. a small relief, and now I'm amped up about spending a lot of time on it and getting my act together. Trying to channel the frenetic pace I had during fall senior year, writing my senior thesis. I was crazed. I don't know how I did it, looking back. ah well.

A small aside about what I've been reading lately--- sexuality in the 19th century encompassing publications for the first time of birth control and abortion information, the more widespread distribution and advertisement of condoms, etc etc. (some of the early stuff is insane. also, they screwed up the "rhythm method" so that basically women were told to have sex at the exact time they were most likely to get pregnant. oops!), obscenity laws, the "erotic canon", Free Lovers who advocated that the state shouldn't be able to decide through marriage about love between a couple ultimately makes links to marriage and slavery, and lots of stuff about reform physiology about how people should understand their bodies and sexual organs. For instance, the Graham cracker was invented by Sylvester Graham because it was a bland food that would "cool" down the body's passion and prevent masturbation which was seen as harmful to health. (seriously)