mid week report

i havent been inspired to write much lately. perhaps because i have so much i need to do for my supervisor. i submitted my 30 page literary review to her today and now i have to get working on my first chapter. it should be about 50 pages and it is due in october. i am paniking.
meanwhile i am desperately photocopying everything i see in the library that might be of interest. everytime i thing i really have everyting i discover a new source that i hadnt investigated previously. i dont know when this will all end, but that point seems a long way away from here.
hyun soo left today.
his invitation arrived from canada, but the embassy here in moscow said it would take a month to process the visa, whereas the embassy in seoul said they could do it within a week. a 12 year old korean is, after all, an unlikely security threat. so this evening hyun soo is getting on an airplane all by himself to fly to the otherside of the planet. he may not come back to moscow for a very very long time. his family plans to leave the country by january, since his father died, there is no reason to stay here. moscow will not be the same without the chos. i have known them for years, since the boys were teeny tiny. i remember trying to teach hyun soo how to tell time correctly in english. now he speaks with almost no accent and is jetting around the world to a posh canadian boarding school. amazing.
i, meanwhile, should get back to writing.