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I walked to Lidl today. As I was strolling up and down the isles, I started to feel a bit silly. Sure, the food there is mostly cheap and as I am a student, it'd be rather convenient for me to shop there. But I don't want to.

The products that are considerably cheaper are mostly foreign, and I want to support local food producers. If I can't have a North Carelian product, it doesn't matter, if it's at least Finnish. Very rarely I buy foreign food if there is Finnish equivalent available. It's weird that I do that, actually, because I haven't really given much thought to this before, I just realised it today. Hmm.

Nevertheless, I did give up my principles today and bought German bread from Lidl, since I've been craving wholegrain rye bread for ages, and the Finnish versions are so expensive I just can't make myself buy it (am also a penny-pincher :p). And I also bought German muesli bars because there was a new flavour. Then I walked to Prisma and bought German curd (and a bag of Finnish carrots, yay me..).

So apparently, I am not as strict in my principles as I'd like to be. But of course there must always be room for improvement, so it's all good. I am not giving up the fair trade bananas, though.

I'm hoping to finish my literary & cultural theory essay tomorrow. Then I could let it rest for a few days, proofread, make the changes and hand it in on Monday along with the Shakespeare essay. I've got some 1250 words now, and we were told to write ca. 2000. So 750 to go. Or 650, because 1900 is almost 2000 :p

I'm so fed up with all this essay writing, though, that I don't know if I can make myself to write the essay tomorrow. It's a shame, because I honestly think Vladimir Propp is an interesting character and I'd like to contentrate on this essay more. But can't. I'm too tired. So I just write mechanically and hope that I'm not dishonouring Propp in any way. Or something. Har.

It still feels silly to sit here my nose practically glued on Morphology of the Folktale. Like I said, Propp is interesting, and so is the theory, but never did I dream that I would actually grab this book and start reading it. I wish I had time to read it thoroughly, now I'm just flipping through pages looking for something I can quote. Hm.

School happiness:
I got 4/5 in the media culture research project.
I feel like sending extra cookies to everyone who participated and helped. "Extra" is a bit arguable, though, because Ville is the only one who ever received even the first set of cookies. :D