Today has been my first productive day of the year; in fact, it has been my first reasonably productive day for some time, in terms of my thesis. I’m still working on it: if I’m honest, I put it off and usually find something better to do, like watching tv or [obscenity deleted]. Yet, when I knuckle down and start work, when the smell of books in my nose or he feel of paper between my fingers hit me, my thirst for knowledge is reborn. My problem now is, I get side tracked: for example, earlier I was reading an article on Godard’s Le Mepris which mentioned ford Maddox ford just in passing. Instantly, I asked Dominik to look ford up in my biography of Hemingway and work on my thesis ground to a halt. Yet I suppose that is how the acquisition of knowledge works sometimes. Oh well, at least I’ve started work again. Now, I just need to keep it up.