et quand on est si distrait qu'on achève seulement un peu

At the moment I've less to get through than in previous weeks, but more to keep me from focussing, it seems. I've finished two essays (on editing 30 lines of previously unedited Middle English religious prose, and on the relationship between the Old Icelandic poem 'Hávamál' and the Biblical Book of Proverbs), as well as two horrendously aggravating research methods assignments--in other words, I've gotten through the majority of this semester's work, and only have to keep up with the readings and preparation for the final two weeks of seminars, and then write two more longish papers by 12 January. And let's face it, I'm not really going to start the final papers until the break begins. Well, random musings these are, and yes, yet another distraction to keep me from that work I have to do. Hooray for distractions! And hooray for frost, fog, and the cold of winter. J'aime bien l'hiver, et c'est presque arrivé.