Saturday, December 08, 2001

Well, in case anyone wants to know, my paper was finished. As the clock ran down and 5 o'clock approached, I began to get even more stressed and petrified. I find that at times like these, I have this overwhelming urge to play Spider Solitaire. However, for once, I stifled it, sucked in my procrastination instincts and wrote four pages in about four hours, a record for me. Normally, I take forever to write - I revise, revise, and then I revise some more. This paper writing experience was different, though. True, I started off with my one page for six hours of toil pace, but then I went to breakfast, thought over a few things, started a blog account, and got down to work! And even though 99.5% of the text on the screen was complete bullshit, I at least had something on the page. After a bit of minor tweaking (Helvetica font instead of Times New Roman) and a final coat of balderdash, the paper was finished.

I ran to the TO office to find that I had plenty of time to spare... nearly forty minutes ahead of schedule! All of that worry, anxiety, the tears (yes, I started crying at 4 because my roommate wouldn't shut up... okay, let's blame that one on PMS)... I don't have to worry about that again. Until Tuesday, when the next paper (final exam!) is due, yet another tome on Faulkner.

I swear, why do I want to be an English major? I'm foreseeing a shitload of bad times ahead, unless I change my paper-writing habits.

Tomorrow I'm going to Disneyland. I'm actually rather excited about this... I've never seen the original Magic Kingdom before. When I was younger, I was a complete Walt Disney World addict. We would go once a year, and I would spend the entire preceeding months researching rides, optimal wait times, the locations of all of my favorite characters in the parks, the best hotel rates... okay, I was a dork. I would even frequent rec.arts.disney.parks in order to hear the latest gossip from the Disney employees. But as I've grown older, I've mellowed out. I no longer obsess over spending long amounts of time waiting for a ride. I can stand buying food at peak dining hours. I can even be (gasp) spontaneous! It's quite a development.

I need to get money, but I don't know the PIN for my ATM card... I had to get a new one because I lost the old one... and that means they had to change the PIN. Hrm. I'll just call my parents really early tomorrow morning, otherwise I'm stuck here!