(this is an old graph from The Onion - I've got nothing better to put in here)As the timestamp will attest, it's 5AM. I've finally finished my paper on the Alamo, and now I've just got to kill time before going to school, since any attempts to sleep will result in me snoozing through my morning (and possibly afternoon) class.
The paper's terrible - it's pretty much just a bunch of book summaries, with a paragraph per source - but I'm somewhat pissed off at myself when I realize that my time management skills haven't improved since High School (that's as far back as I can remember pulling all-nighters). My first year at UD, I managed to go 60 hours straight without sleep for the stupid mock trial and some Kimbrough papers (that was the glorious time of the 175-pound, Abe-Lincoln-beard-ed version of me - there's a picture somewhere, I'm sure). I just kind of figured that eventually I'd learn ways to get things done at least the day before they're due.
Although it's not all bad. Re-reading the paper (which is really, really poorly written), I'm noticing that I not only have 45 endnotes, but fill up 1/6 of my total page count with single-spaced, 10-pt notes. And I know that tomorrow morning (in 3 hours), I'll be fielding complaints from students who were forced to provide 8 total sources (apparently, it's real hard to find sources about anorexia?)
The other plus is that I bought a 2-liter of Dr. Pepper and some powdered donettes to keep me awake, so I get a fun breakfast!
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