'P' seems to be the theme of today...mainly because I'm a little pissed off. Last night I was going to my fav place to write papers (Dennys) since I live in a world where the library closes at 11pm even the week before finals...LAME!
Dennys is 30 miles away and the best part is they give you all you can drink coffee for $2 and they won't let you fall asleep! Perfect Place to write Plenty of Papers, right? Well I thought so too. On the way though, of course, I get a flat tire and I mean flatter than flat, it was down to the rim of the tire and I was PISSED! These were brand new tires and I just got my car back. So I'm on the side of a major highway (Well as major as the highways get out here in boonie county USA) in an absolute Panic. Luckily I had a level-headed friend with me and she calmed me down, told me to just smoke a cig or something and we started to change the tire. Mission accomplished...about an hour later.
Other than that, once I got back to the university I dropped my friend off and had to park my car...in the farthest parking lot away from the dorms and it was about 4-4:30 am. So I called the Po-Po for a ride. He was nice about it and was jamming out to Love is a Battlefield (awesome!).
After that Pathetic excuse for a night, I slept in for a bit, only to wake up to an e-mail from the professor I sent my personal statement and CV to...
**Just a warning: If you send your personal statement and CV to a prof that you know is going to rip it a part (and you want them to do so) it might no be the best idea to read their comments first thing in the morning**
Basically, I need to cut out about half of the stuff and beef up other parts, change wordings and stop sounding like a pompous asshole...yeah I expected that, but it was definitely an *ouch* moment early in the morning that I was caught off guard with.
I have a new direction ow though, so thats good at least. I'm sending it to her again on Monday...when she'll probably tell me its too boring now and something they've heard before. It'll help me in the long run though, so I'm sucking it up and putting my big girl panties on.
Oh about this Paper Palooza thing. Yeah, so sometimes I feel bad for professors because they have so much work to do...I hope to be in their shoes one day so I try to sympathize, but at this point I'm getting a little testy.
If I'm not allowed to complain on facebook about all the papers I have to write and get made fun of in class (not just me but as a general thing) for talking about the progress of papers, then profs shouldn't be alowed to complain about grading them. Yes I understand that I'm only writing one paper for your class and you're reading 25-30, but my writing involves a lot of research, it takes longer to write the paper than to read it and your class is not the only one I have papers to write for.
There is one main difference between my bitching and yours. You are in control of how many papers you have to read and grade by how many you assign. I'm not in control in how many papers I have to write...that's also up to you.
Paper Palooza is my attempt to write 50-60 pages of papers by Thursday of next week. It's going to be fun-and-exciting-and-I'm-going-to-keep-smiling-and-talking-like-I'm-really-peppy-through-this-whole-thing-so-I-don't-attempt-to-hang-myself.
I'm armed with two coffee pots, a bag and a huge folders container of coffee, two milk bottles from our cafe, sugar packets out the wing-wang and Pixie Sticks :) for good measure.
So far in Paper Palooza i have complete 6 short write-ups for my scholarship and...well this blog. So much for not procrastinating! And with that I'm getting back to work! Wish me luck!
Update! Let's make that 6 write-ups and a Witches paper! Boo-Yah
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