I Need SLEEP
May. 1st, 2006 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inmyriadbits*stumbles into LJ*
*blinks*
I've been awake for 24 hours. (I don't count the hour I lay in bed mostly-awake and the 45 minutes I spent making my arms lose sensation on that desk in Butler Library as "sleep"). I still haven't finished my Classical Myth paper, but that's okay, because I sent my prof (the amazing one, the one who has that theory that I SPN-geeked about) a desperate email at 6 this morning begging (coherently and sedately) for an extension.
I can see you don't believe me that I was both coherent and sedate. I have therefore included the text of the email. Keep in mind that I composed this remarkable appeal at six. This morning. I'm amazed at myself...
Dear Professors,
I am writing to request an extension on my paper deadline, if possible. I would never have asked, except that my roommate got me sick right before the weekend, which greatly hampered my ability to write the three papers I have due today. I remained optimistic that I could finish the paper adequately, but I have now been awake for 20 hours straight, in addition to being sick, and I'm unhappy enough with my paper's progress to be writing this email. Even a day's reprieve would be an enormous boon.
If an extension is not possible, please let me know what your late work policy is so I can weigh the pros and cons of turning in the paper late. I will of course keep working unchanged until I hear from you. Thanks,
Lindsey [edit last name]
Why am I doing this instead of sleeping? Lord knows. Anyway, she wrote back saying no penalty if I have it in before the 3rd. I have to see her after class, which is at 2:40. The paper I did finish, for my seminar, was awesome. I'm proud of it (well, except the conclusion. It's...un-spectacular), which is exciting for me, because I haven't been proud of anything else I've written this semester. Some of it I've been actively ashamed to have written. So the fact that I wrote that one paper well made me totally okay with not having finished the CM paper, and now it's just the cherry that I won't be penalized for it. Although I'm going to feel completely intimidated talking to my incredibly erudite little professor.
Why am I still typing?
Do I regret spending a dozen hours hanging out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maribou413 Saturday night and rewatching the first 7 episodes of SPN instead of working? Not a chance. :) And next weekend, we add alcohol to the mix. Woo-hoo!
Seriously. I'm going to stop typing...now.
*blinks*
I've been awake for 24 hours. (I don't count the hour I lay in bed mostly-awake and the 45 minutes I spent making my arms lose sensation on that desk in Butler Library as "sleep"). I still haven't finished my Classical Myth paper, but that's okay, because I sent my prof (the amazing one, the one who has that theory that I SPN-geeked about) a desperate email at 6 this morning begging (coherently and sedately) for an extension.
I can see you don't believe me that I was both coherent and sedate. I have therefore included the text of the email. Keep in mind that I composed this remarkable appeal at six. This morning. I'm amazed at myself...
Dear Professors,
I am writing to request an extension on my paper deadline, if possible. I would never have asked, except that my roommate got me sick right before the weekend, which greatly hampered my ability to write the three papers I have due today. I remained optimistic that I could finish the paper adequately, but I have now been awake for 20 hours straight, in addition to being sick, and I'm unhappy enough with my paper's progress to be writing this email. Even a day's reprieve would be an enormous boon.
If an extension is not possible, please let me know what your late work policy is so I can weigh the pros and cons of turning in the paper late. I will of course keep working unchanged until I hear from you. Thanks,
Lindsey [edit last name]
Why am I doing this instead of sleeping? Lord knows. Anyway, she wrote back saying no penalty if I have it in before the 3rd. I have to see her after class, which is at 2:40. The paper I did finish, for my seminar, was awesome. I'm proud of it (well, except the conclusion. It's...un-spectacular), which is exciting for me, because I haven't been proud of anything else I've written this semester. Some of it I've been actively ashamed to have written. So the fact that I wrote that one paper well made me totally okay with not having finished the CM paper, and now it's just the cherry that I won't be penalized for it. Although I'm going to feel completely intimidated talking to my incredibly erudite little professor.
Why am I still typing?
Do I regret spending a dozen hours hanging out with
maribou413 Saturday night and rewatching the first 7 episodes of SPN instead of working? Not a chance. :) And next weekend, we add alcohol to the mix. Woo-hoo!Seriously. I'm going to stop typing...now.
