Kira Disapproves

 I wish I could go back to college

Life was so simple back then

Sitting in the computer lab

4 am before the final paper is due

Cursing the world cause you didn’t start sooner

And seeing the rest of the class there, too!

~ Avenue Q ~

My internet has died and I am in the library working amidst a passel of undergrads. It is a totally surreal experience. I keep hearing people discussing deadlines and tests. At one point, the security guard came over and asked everyone to quiet down. There were about fifteen seconds of silence, followed by an explosion of “I’m being louder than my usual speaking voice because I’m trying ineffectually to whisper”-type whispering. It’s not that I don’t have deadlines and stuff as a grad student. But there’s a peculiar aesthetic to the undergrad freak out. I’m trying not to be swept into it.

My word count may not look particularly impressive, but I’m feeling pretty okay. I’ve done all my research for both papers, and I’ve actually written a number of additional words on my Dionne/Suleman paper. They’re just scattered in various documents as I think through where I want them to be, and it felt silly to spend 15 minutes of paper writing time adding them all up for a word count. The first two papers are due Friday. The one I’m most worried about is due next Tuesday.

I hope everyone who has papers to write is doing better than my little bean man. I’m sure he’ll wake up and get typing any minute now…

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