posted 2005/05/05 at 17:23
Paper two is done and turned in. (Thank Goddess for being able to e-mail papers in instead of running them all the way to school and back.) If there's one good thing about having a mind that likes to plan things out thirty steps in advance, it's that I can start with a blank Word document, have an outline ten minutes later and fill that outline out into a ten-page paper in less than five hours and actually have it be good. Must be because I've played so much chess all my life.
That leaves a little less than twenty-four hours for the fifteen-page paper, which normally wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, unlike the subject material for my last two papers (literary Marxism and Poppy Z. Brite), this last paper is way outside of my range of speciality, so I don't think my normal planning strategies are going to work on this paper. This one could require me to go all through the night to finish, but if that's the way it has to be, so be it. It's not like I have anyplace I have to be on Friday now that Jessi's not going to Westland.
However, I was pleased as punch to find out earlier today that Christina and Milena will be in my neck of the woods this weekend, so we'll be meeting up Sunday for lunch. I could really use some time with my real friends after all that's happened the past couple of weeks.
No report on the diet log today because one, I'm not going to have time to get in DDR, and two, I'm already off-diet with all the energy drinks I have lined up for the long night ahead. I guess Sunday will be off-diet as well because of lunch with Christina and Milena. Oh well, just more reason to work my ass off playing DDR next week.
Oh crap, I forgot the British elections were coming in just now. Those of you who have C-SPAN2, turn to it now. The British cover their elections on TV about a million times more interestingly (and a million times more informatively) than the US news networks cover US elections. (And of course they don't cover British elections at all because they think we're the only country on this planet that matters.)
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