In which we avoid our homework

I’ve got this monstrous paper due Wednesday morning. It’s for my Greek Mythology class, so it isn’t too bad, but really, 6+ pages on “The Cyclopes in Our Own World” ? Yes, I did choose this topic. Yes, I’m quite fond of the lawless, cannibalistic Cyclopes. Yes, I find it easy to write about the sad state of affairs that is this planet. But … urgh all the same.

Here’s the bit that should be motivating me (and why I started the paper Saturday instead of Tuesday night at 2am): Best essay wins some “something blah blah” award. Which is a great honor in a class of over 500. But that award comes with $500. Yes, that is correct. No, that is not a typo. $500! Wow. I am 5 lines onto my third page, but I’m struggling… Usually I just churn out page after page of rubbish and the teachers seem to like it and it’s all good. But with this one, I know what I want to say but can’t quite put it into the right words. Oh well… Wish me luck, reader(s?)!

AND on top of everything, it is dead week!! Ah dead week, those wonderful 5 days during which the professors freak the hell out because we still have so much to cover, the students freak the hell out because they still have so much reading to catch up on and so many last-minute papers/projects to cobble together, and the rising amount of caffeine consumed is inversely proportional to the number of hours spent asleep (but directly proportional to the number of hours spent staring aimlessly at the same page of that textbook you’ve never opened)

Finals the week after (roommate’s birthday in a week, first day of finals… Mine a week from Friday, last day of finals. NOT. FUN.) and then I am coming home!! Hurrah!! Then it’s visit with the dance buddies, tattoo, physical therapist, dance class, crazy person’s birthday that I may or may not celebrate, visit to doctor for asthma-related-death type symptoms, more dance class, and general laziness. And likely some sort of hair-coloring fiasco since I’ve just lopped it all off. What larks.

Stay classy, children

xoxo

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