"Suffering" Saturday

I have a day off today and well, the plan was supposed to write a paper on Dostoyevsky and his consistent theme of suffering in his books. However, since I was not too sure I'd be so convincing of writing a paper based on that, I chose to write about something else...which ultimately cost me most of the day since I was forcing myself to read other work to brush up so I could write that paper...
Now, at 10:10pm I find myself sitting here in a funk because I ended up going back to my initial chosen topic of "Suffering" and am stuck here trying to write a convincing paper that I myself don't even find the least bit convincing!!! GGGGRRRRRR!! Procrastination has a wicked bite!

I mean it's coming along...just not so swimmingly as I had hoped. I'm really liking Dostoyevsky more and more, but initially I just thought he was crazy and all gibberish. I have "Notes From The Underground" to thank for that initial impression. That book is crazy! Very deep...but crazy. But after reading "The Idiot" - being the dramatist I am, I love Dostoyevsky. Now I'm on "The Brothers Karamazov" - Fantastic!
He is hard to put down. I heard some woman in my class say that while I was killing myself trying to read Notes, and I thought she was insane! You wouldn't even have to ask me to put that down, I wouldn't even bother picking it up!

Anyhow, on a happier note - Canada has won 24 medals at this Winter Olympics, the most ever! We're only a medal away from the US and 5 from Germany! I'm so proud of all our athletes! The women's speed skating did awesome today winning Gold and Bronze from Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen. Cindy Klassen is the most decorated Canadian athlete winning 5 in these games alone, and 6 in her career!! The men's short track relay team won silver, losing to Korea who broke our record for winning gold in 2 consecutive Olympics in this sport. In the men's 500m Short Track competition, Francois-Louis Tremblay won silver! So close, but another favourtie of mine, despite the fact he's American, Apolo Anton Ohno won the gold.
Today was an exciting day for Canadian Olympians!! Gotta love being Canadian, we live and breathe winter sports!