I've gotten one paper done. The one that's due Monday. Hallelujah, praise the Lord! It took 3 hours to write. It was an extra credit paper for History, and boy, do I hope I get full extra credit for it. I have a 79% in that class, which is AWFUL! That's not even a B! Half of it is because I did cruddy on the midterm. I thought I had done so much better on that test... But, no. I got a 79% on that too.

That is a lot of missed questions. I even studied the night before... For, like, 2 hours. I don't even usually study. (I'm not a slacker; I just don't usually need to study that much.) But this class is killing me. As Professor C said, "For some of you, this was a 'Welcome to college' experience."

You should have heard the expressions of contempt uttered in the class. I was surprised at them... I guess I'm not the only one who did badly on the test.

But that's off on a tangent. I still have three papers to write. They're all due Tuesday. Two are final papers for quad classes. One is actually a rewrite. Not realizing the final for Intro to Study of Lit would be harder than the rest of the papers I did for that class, I procrastinated doing it till Thursday afternoon after work. And then I procrastinated some more because it was so hard to think of something to write for the paper. (A two-to-three page essay on my philosophy of literature.) On top of that, I realized I hadn't yet typed up the week before's paper. We had looked up some things in a reader's handbook and were supposed to answer them in kind of a paper format. I didn't know that last week and all I had to show Professor D was a few short notes on the things we looked up scratched onto a piece of paper. He told me to type it up and hand it in the following class period, which was yesterday.

So at 4:00 I started typing up the answers from last week, somehow thinking that was the more important one. (It was, at least, the easier one.) At 5:00 I had 2 hours till class to write my final paper on an extremely hard topic.

And so I typed up a really bad paper, feeling way too much pressure to make the time, and ended up typing until 8:00 and then went to class, feeling at the lowest of lows.

Yesterday was just a really lousy day.

After class I went up to Professor D, confessed to him about my paper, and basically asked him what I should do. Boy, what a rotten situation, he was thinking, and she got herself into it. No, I'm not kidding you; that was really what he was thinking, 'cause he's that kind of guy.

Anyway, Professor D, in his great mercy (blasphemy! I'm comparing him to God! LOL, not really), gave me a second chance. He told me to turn in my piece-of-junk paper so I could say I'd turned it in on time, and then retype it into a better essay and turn it in "early next week" with "Please substitute this for my other paper" on top.

I. Love. Professor D. He is a wonderful, wonderful man. :)

Although that adds to my stack of papers yet another paper...it is my own stupid fault for slacking off and procrastinating... as it is my own stupid fault for not writing my Renaissance paper that's due Tuesday in Survey of Art...and I'm happier to have been given a second chance to write a good paper for him than to have had to turn in a cruddy, horrible paper.

Okay, enough of my elocutions for tonight. I have one paper done and I am SO happy about that. I have all day tomorrow and Sunday to finish my other three papers, and I'm SO happy about that. I'm going to relax my fingers from typing a bit and read and afterwards start my rewrite of my Intro to Lit paper.

Hallelujah, God is good.

-Stephanie

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