The deadline for all work to be turned in on my summer class was Monday night at 11:59 pm. These are the time stamps for the last five assignments I submitted. I believe this is what they call sneaking in by the hair of your chinny chin chin -- or some other hair, if that's your pleasure ( Read more... )

I've often said that one of the greatest feelings in the world was to walk out after finishing the last final of the semester. Although I'm hoping to revisit that feeling in the next few days, knocking out a shit ton of course work in three days is a pretty impressive feeling, too ( Read more... )

The paper is out of the way. Of course, I've got less than 22 hours to finish up a couple of units in my two classes and take the final regular online tests. The tests themselves shouldn't be hard, but shoving all of that knowledge into my brain in such a short order is liable to give me a headache ( Read more... )

Why can't I ever be motivated to do something at a reasonable hour of the day? Why do I do my best work when there's a deadline breathing down my back, which is usually when the rest of the world is sleeping and I should be, too? Answers? Anyone?

So it's 3:38 and the paper *still* isn't done. It's only five pages... And, by golly, I do have the ability to put words together with some sort of order & purpose. So why is the paper not done yet? Well, because it's about bloody El Nino. And I don't know much about El Nino. And I've found that a suprising number of authors and textbooks share my ( Read more... )

Well, I was a slacker today. Er... make that yesterday. Certainly, this sort of behavior is unbecoming of a degree candidate. I'm told that to graduate, I might actually have to go to class from time to time. Checking my calendar, I see that I'm running out of time ( Read more... )

Why is it that I can take a good situation and ruin it for no good reason. Not ruin it intentionally, mind you. Just screw it up by being me. I should have done some hard core studying. I had a chance in scheduling that would have allowed me to do that. Instead, I sit on my ass and do practically nothing. That makes no frikkin' sense. And if I can' ( Read more... )

Well, lemme paint the picture for you ( Read more... )