slumber party
there are some odd results that go along with all-nighters. this last one, for instance cranked out a paper fully two pages longer than i had intended for it to be. thankfully, i had been shooting for the bare minimum, or i'd have gone over the page count and had to cull my beautiful words.
it all started with an idea that fizzled and died. followed by another failed topic. and an extremely sickly one. until finally, i resigned myself to a topic that was not at all interesting. or rather, to a set of chapters that was not at all interesting. in order to find something to actually say about these chapters, i had to re-read them. and still, not much came to me.
after three or so hours of this, i decided to pull a jesus. this is duder terminology for: 'you have heard it said that X, but i say unto you Y.' or rather, everything you've heard/read/thought about these five and a half chapters of don quixote is way, way wrong, and i'm going to set you straight after reading them four times.
so i found an incredibly incredible [in the way, way out there kind of way] thread running through them and spun it into aweb of lies argument about the dark side of don quixote. it's probably completely false. likely, i would be laughed out of academic circles for saying such unRomantic things about this very Romantic hero. but it's original. [note: so was the first sin, but did that make it better?]
anyway, i took a two hour nap [was supposed to be one] at around one, woke up again, and put some meat on my sinful little outline. two pages too much meat, but a fleshy paper is not bad. five+ chapters were just too much to bite off for the tiny paper, i guess. at least, with the [too]close reading i did.
the strange thing is this, though. my back has not felt this good in ages. i didn't even realize it was hurting before. i mean, if figured it out a couple of weeks ago, but it went away and i figured i'd pulled something. but i woke up from that nap feeling so good, and i still feel so good from it, that i think i'll sleep on the floor again tonight.
not the least bit because i've another paper to crank out and about 20 chapters of ada to read for tomorrow.
ah well. to clas with me. gotta turn in my original sin.
love and peace
it all started with an idea that fizzled and died. followed by another failed topic. and an extremely sickly one. until finally, i resigned myself to a topic that was not at all interesting. or rather, to a set of chapters that was not at all interesting. in order to find something to actually say about these chapters, i had to re-read them. and still, not much came to me.
after three or so hours of this, i decided to pull a jesus. this is duder terminology for: 'you have heard it said that X, but i say unto you Y.' or rather, everything you've heard/read/thought about these five and a half chapters of don quixote is way, way wrong, and i'm going to set you straight after reading them four times.
so i found an incredibly incredible [in the way, way out there kind of way] thread running through them and spun it into a
anyway, i took a two hour nap [was supposed to be one] at around one, woke up again, and put some meat on my sinful little outline. two pages too much meat, but a fleshy paper is not bad. five+ chapters were just too much to bite off for the tiny paper, i guess. at least, with the [too]close reading i did.
the strange thing is this, though. my back has not felt this good in ages. i didn't even realize it was hurting before. i mean, if figured it out a couple of weeks ago, but it went away and i figured i'd pulled something. but i woke up from that nap feeling so good, and i still feel so good from it, that i think i'll sleep on the floor again tonight.
not the least bit because i've another paper to crank out and about 20 chapters of ada to read for tomorrow.
ah well. to clas with me. gotta turn in my original sin.
love and peace
posted by Rehkmira @ 09:08
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