What a prescient song name...iTunes really can tell the future.

Well, it looks like I'm pulling an all-nighter to finish up this seminar draft - I didn't get nearly as much done today as I would have liked, and while it is just a draft, given that tomorrow today is the "official" (though not hard and fast) deadline, I'd kind of like whatever I turn in tomorrow today to be at least half-decent. (Not to mention that the closer to complete it is, the more useful the feedback will be.)

My goal is to e-mail my prof the draft by about noon or so, then collapse for twelve hours or so. Then I'll spend all of tomorrow finishing up my Beowulf paper and studying for my final exam in that class on Wednesday morning; hopefully I'll get my draft back by Wednesday afternoon, and then I can spend the final two days of the week finishing up this bastard of a paper based on my prof's suggestions. Honestly, after spending like four of the days in the last week working on papers (the weekend doing this, and then a couple of days during the week working on Beowulf, and that's not even counting all the time I've spent on research for the seminar paper), I'm so sick of paper-writing it's not even funny, but I have pretty much another entire week of it ahead of me.

Honestly, all that's going to keep me going through this week is the assurance that I'm going to be in Europe in less than two months*. Well, that and my rather large hoard of energetic music. XD

* = or alternatively less than two weeks, though I'm guessing my brother didn't get the official offer in the last couple of weeks because he hasn't let me know one way or the other; I sent him an e-mail a couple of days ago and haven't received a reply yet, and I'm gonna give him a phone call tomorrow, but meanwhile I'm going to assume things are going to go as originally planned and we'll do our European trip in early June, which makes me happy.

Edit: Screw this, I'm going to bed so that I can get at least 4 hours or so of sleep...I'm managing to not nod off but my brain is feeling kinda muddled, and I figure it's probably not best to try to churn out scholarly writing when muddled.

Behold the power of caffeine, positive thinking and actually being self-disciplined for half an hour

Wow, in the last like twenty minutes I pounded out a page and a half; yay for finally tackling the close reading part I really wasn't looking forward to! Also, I just got an e-mail from my brother letting me know that we're on for early-mid June for our European vacation, so things will go as originally planned: I will be taking the three-week May class and will, in fact, be able to go to Janie's wedding. Woohoo! :D

Let's Positive Linking, Celebrity Edition!
- Apparently Oprah reads ohnotheydidnt, whcih makes me like her even more. (However, I could have done without hearing about her Saturday vibrator habits.)
- The Top 101 UK Homosexuals. I'm kind of sad that Simon Amstell didn't make the list. Also holy crap but Derek Jacobi is gay? And Aunt Petunia and Professor Sprout from the Harry Potter movies? And David Starkey, my favoritest Tudor historian EVAR? Also, "(Derek Jacobi) won a scholarship to Cambridge where he met fellow thesp Sir Ian McKellen, who apparently had a crush on Jacobi." GANDALF THE GAY x CLAUDIUS/CADFAEL, WHUT. I'm torn between "hott" and "lolwtf." XD
- HOLY SHIT THE LITTLE GIRL FROM THE WITCH MOUNTAIN MOVIES IS PARIS HILTON'S AUNT? WTF WTF WTFFFFFFFFFF

SO CLOSE TO BEING DONE...but just with the draft orz

Wow, I always forget how important transitions and editing are to paper length; I'd finally given up on about page 12 and said to myself, "Well, I'll turn in the draft as is, I guess; I'll just do a quick edit/polish so that it's not too horrible, add some transitions, and e-mail it to my prof." It didn't turn out to be particularly quick, but it did turn out fruitful - while I'm still not quite done with the edit/transitions, I have gone from barely 11 pages to 12 1/2 through the edits/transitions alone. I'm betting I'll be on page 13 by the time I finish this edit. And wow, but it makes me feel quite productive. XD

As you can tell I didn't get it done by noon as originally planned, orz

In the meantime, apparently Vaan from Final Fantasy XII is secretly Osama bin Laden.

Edit: Also, apparently the author of the Babysitters Club books is a lesbian. Does that mean Kristy x Mary Anne is now canon? 'Cause, you know, I always wondered...

Edit 2: Draft done and turned in, woohoo! Now I can actually shower and shave for the first time in like three days (haha, I know...eww) and then go get some supper and relax before spending tomorrow on Beowulf stuff. :D :D: D