School is impossible

3 final papers due in what feels like 5 seconds.  All of which require generation of topic.  I spent the weekend poring over what I thought would be the logic paper topic, and today decided that it was a dead-end.  But starting tomorrow, I must turn in topics for all the papers.

Metaphysics will be something about the relationship between composition and fundamentality.  I am pro-universal composition (for any two non-overlapping objects, there's a further object composed of them).  I am anti-fundamentalist (there is no "bottom level" of matter; it is infinitely divisible).  I will write something about the relationship between these views, or rather which commitments are compatible with which, or something like that.

Logic will probably be something about natural language conditional statements.  But I just threw out the argument I was trying to develop over the weekend--I think I can only make a very boring claim, compared to what I was aiming for.  Maybe there's a way to switch teams and make a paper out of the failure.  Or maybe I can clear up some of my half-formed thoughts about what kinds of natural language statements can't be translated into first-order logic (e.g., "There are some cowboys each of whom shot one of the others in the right foot").

Wittgenstein--who in the hell knows.  Perhaps something about rule-following, and the purported (but plausible) impossibility of explaining a sign with another sign, etc.  Or what that has to do with the possibility of a language being developed in the first place.

Some shit like that.  In short, it will be nifty once graduation has happened.