Windchimes

A Fistful of Sticky Tabs

Just got finished going through the books I checked out to research a documented essay for my Mark Twain class, and taking out all the post-it tabs I used to mark passages that might have something to do with my research topic. That wraps up the last task associated with writing the paper, besides turning it in. I think I wrote a decent paper, although once again, I stayed up all night last night finishing it. Theoretically, I believe I should always start a paper at least three weeks before its due date. In actuality, that seldom happens, and I want to kick myself everytime I end up sitting in front of the computer all night long the night before a paper's due. I have two more semesters to change that behavior, and I know there's no getting away with it in graduate school. At least I had three pages written and all the work done for the works cited page (the most tedious part of writiing these things) early on this time, thanks to the professor's insistence that we turn in an introductory paragraph with a proposed bibliography, as well as a prospectus in which we narrowed those sources, a couple of weeks before the due date of the actual paper. All I had to do was copy and paste the sources I actually ended up using. YAY!

My hat goes off to anyone who writes book length literary criticism, even if it takes them decades to write such a book.

Tomorrow, I'm sleeping A LOT. Today, I'm downing another pot of coffee.

J.H. Larrew
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