yikes!

It's down to the wire, folks. One paper due tomorrow by 5:45pm, which I'm pulling out of my ass right now. At least seven references, 7-10 pages, on the sociology of Jane Addams. And a self-evaluation/grade summary, which needs to be typed...

My intership paper, which I thought was due Friday morning, but Dr. Ross said I should have in "before Friday", so I have to call in the morning to make sure how much time I've really got left to do it. That's an 8 page paper, a student evaluation of the agency form to fill out, and typed journal notes. I just started to type up the journal notes tonight--bad mistake, it's a lot more work than I thought it was gonna be...

I was wigging out pretty good for a bit there, but then Doug reminded me that I have at over 12 hours of work time left at the minimum to get this stuff done. The Jane Addams paper counts for 10 percent of my grade, so even if I hand in absolute schwag, it still won't kill me. He advised me to get ol' Jane out of the way first. If I get done with that by the time he gets up for work, he suggested I take a nap until he leaves for work, then get up and work on the internship paper until I can call to verify how long I have to work on it. If I have until Friday morning like I think I do, then I'll type up my journal notes and take another nap, then get back to work on the final paper. If not, I'll just have to keep sluggin' down the coffee and sugar to keep me going straight through and then sleep sleep sleeeep when I'm done.

I'm a horrid procrastinator and I get really wiggy under stress, so I have to keep reminding myself to focus. Focus. FOCUS!! I can do this. I have done this before. I can do this. Chant it with me--FOCUS!!You can do this!You've done it before!It's almost over!

Please, everyone, keep me in your thoughts, prayers, chants, rituals, whatever. FOCUS!YOU CAN DO THIS!YOU'VE DONE THIS BEFORE!IT'S ALMOST OVER!

One down, one to go...

Finished all the shiznit for Soc. theory class aroundabouts 8:30. Called CJ office, and it wasn't much help. Technically, the internship papers are due on the last day of finals (tomorrow) but no one will be in the office to give my paper to and Dr. Ross won't be in. Karen (the office assistant) suggested that I hand it in today to be on the safe side, but also said that I could slip it under the CJ office door--but she doesn't know exactly when Dr. Ross will receive it.

Because I've been up all fucking night and I'm dead fucking tired, I'm going to go take a nap for a coupla hours, then get back to work. I don't know if I'll get finished in time to hand it in before the CJ office closes or not. However, if I try to continue to work at this point, I don't think much of what I have to say will make sense. Hopefully the nap will give me the ol' "second wind". I guess that means I'm "throwing caution to the wind" and taking a chance on the paper being considered "late" by putting it under the office door. Right about now, I say--Fuckit. I'm gonna crash now.