Paper pains

Blaah! The fun is really over. This paper I'm writing is taking so much time, and I find it hard to write it in so little time, since I'm used to have like weeks and weeks to write a 10-page paper, but now I have to do it in a couple of days. Ah well, It'll probably work out fine. As usual (and that sounds arrogant, I'm sorry!).

The moments I'm not writing, I'm usually filling up with Amy, watching the series True Blood. It's an amazing series about vampires! I know, not my favourite creatures, but True Blood is just amazingly funny and horrible at the same time. I'm addicted. Check it out on Wikipedia.

Yesterday afternoon I've been with Amy and Quentin to the museum, because on Monday we have to give a little presentation about our paper subject, next to the objects in the Museum (mine are right at the entrance : little ivory human and animal figurines from Early-Dynastic period, so cute!). I was looking at my figurines and drawing them, when suddenly 2 French tourists came to see what I was doing. Since I was taking notes in English, they must have thought I couldn't understand French, because they said (in French of course) : "Ah, these figurines are clearly made of wood! And painted over with white paint! There's no doubt about that, very interesting!" Now, I don't mind people making mistakes (I make them all the time, and it is understandable they thought the figurines were made of wood, they had cracks), but I couldn't stand their arrogant way of saying how "clear" it was, "no doubt". Even we, students in egyptology and not tourists, don't even do that, if we haven't seen the objects before and are not sure. So I couldn't retain myself. I said, in my best French : "Excuse me, they are not made of wood, but of ivory. That's why they are in a special exhibition.". They looked at me and thanked me, and then went off.
Call me cruel or a tourist teaser, but I was stressed out by my paper :p! I promise I'll never do it again.