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So, while it seems everyone else did this at the beginning of their breaks--mine officially started last Friday at noon--it seems I procrastinate even on these sorts of things, so I'll have to give you a mid-break report and to-do list.

First off, I did not get any presents for Christmas, because, obviously enough, no one in my family is Christian. Not that this would matter to me in any case, since I don't believe in organized religion. (My parents did however--inexplicably, since I completely ignored the holiday and didn't celebrate it with them--give me some horribly ugly jewelry and a book on France that pretty much calls Maxime a bloodthirsty dictator for Hannukah. Needless to say, I don't find it worth reading.) If this makes me sound at all bratty, well then, it's probably true that I am, but it's not as if I wanted *better* presents: I wanted no presents at all. After all, my only real wants present-wise are books on the Revolution, and it's not as if my parents know how to pick those out (see above). So if I save my allowance, which is essentially a present from them anyway, then I can pick my own "presents" and be much more satisfied. (I would like to be able to say that I put my cat-sitting money into it, but considering I get paid for cat-sitting in imported cheese, that probably wouldn't work out so well...)
/rant-like thing

On to things I've accomplished so far during this break:
--finished reading Les misérables outloud to my parents (I'm such a geek, I know XD)
--finished Candide
--read chapter 20 of Art History texbook
--read one fourth of Anna Karenina for English
--submitted Brandeis application
--finished translating (and posted) Charlotte's memoirs
--finished translating Babet's memoirs
--typed a few more pages into my on-going transcription of Autour de Robespierre: Le Conventionnel Le Bas
--replied to all comments
--got to see two of my friends who no longer go to school with me
--made very complicated sole recipe that turned out like sashimi because our oven = teh fail
--other random miscellaneous stuff that isn't worth remarking upon

To do (on break):
--community service
--read chapters on non-Western art in Art History textbook
--fill in chapters 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, and 20 in Art History "study guide"
--work on presentation on art of the Indus Valley Civilization for Art History
--read other three fourths of Anna Karenina and annotate it for English
--write essay for University of Chicago and short answer for University of Rochester and submit both applications
--rehearse for Oberlin Conservatory audition
--post Babet's memoirs
--try to see my friends again before it's no longer possible
--make some sort of dinner that doesn't involve baking
--learn to play new Mozart piece on fortepiano/new Couperin piece on harpsichord
--clean room

To do (ongoing):
--learn recits for "Deh vieni non tardar"
--continue to work on fortepiano/harpsichord pieces
--continue transcribing AdR:LCLB (see above)
--finish reading the first tome of l'Histoire de Robespierre, l'Ame de la France, Comment les riches détruisent la planète, and Combats pour la Révolution française
--take and post decent pictures of my cats
--draw art that I've promised to various people
--write fic in which Éléonore stabs Tallien

...What's the point of even having a break? I have more work to do now than I do when school is in session!