3 Kislev/20 November, 2009

The plot thickens in the Carsac book. Turns out Stella, our main heroine, isn’t really estranged from her father. The estrangement and her journalistic ambitions are a ruse in order to get information on the planet and on Laprad. The father, a head of a mega corporation exploiting the planet, wants an unlimited license to mine the planet while Laprad is working to get rid even of limited license. Stella is a corporate spy, pretty much, filming the natives in order to edit it negatively to encourage the Earth government to issue an unlimited license to plunder the planet of the resources and to “civilize” the native population. Of course, there are some pangs of conscience and she is clearly drawn to Laprad, a rude yet interesting giant of a man, with strong muscles that appeal to her girly side. She is no tender flower, yet still I hope the plot won’t be too predictable there where a girl needs a rude bad man (who is of course morally right) to set her straight. The book is sometimes awkward in dialogue and I can’t decide whether it is because of all the expositions that the authors tries to put in characters’ mouths or if it is the translation from French that just sounds awkward in Russian.

I finally got back to Chapter 6 of Hebrew, last couple of weeks been a bit busy. I reviewed the previous chapters and I’m almost done with the exercises in the book. Just letting the information settle in my brain for a few weeks actually helped in digesting the information.

Most of the day was a bit boring; I was procrastinating a lot on grading which happens before deadlines. Now I will just have a very busy weekend with usually happens. I’ll get Paper 4 done by Monday, though.