Day Twenty-Nine.

Second-to-last day of BEDA! I feel that this post should say something worthwhile rather than the general ramble/rant/complain/bore-you-to-death. It's crunch time! I have a paper due tomorrow at 12:40 so I have just over 17 hours to write it. Luckily it's really only an "extension" of the last two papers, with 6 paragraphs added on. As an engineering major, this is actually quite a relief. I never thought I would be able to write a 10-page paper, ever. Who knows if it will even be 10 pages, probably not, but it's only supposed to be 9-18, and if I use courier new font like usual, it makes things a lot easier. Too bad the first 2/3 of my paper are really bad, but I am not going to rewrite them because 1) that would take too long, and 2) they would turn out just as bad the second time, so I'm not going to waste the time. I kind of wish I had more sleep in me, having gotten less than 4 hours last night and knowing I will have to stay up the whole night to finish. But I was at swing dancing and rowing, and that is more important that paper-writing, of course. And I don't drink energy drinks or coffee, so I will probably be munching on food all night and listening to songs on my iTunes and/or Pandora. It makes me feel better though that so many people go through this paper-writing ritual, as featured in MJ's blog: How to Write a Final Paper. Currently I am procrastinating by watching YouTube videos and writing this entry. I am pretty much a professional procrastinator (try saying THAT 5 times fast!), having a lot of experience from high school. It's like a competition; usually I start out okay, but then the next time I have to do a paper/project I think "well, I did this last time and finished it..." so then I end up in that mindset, and I end up starting even LATER, which is VERY BAD.

While on YouTube, I discovered a trailer for a new Alexis Bledel movie, "Post Grad" and it looks pretty good. The song at the end sounded good, so I looked it up, and was very excited that it was one of my iTunes free singles of the week that I hadn't listened to very much! Yay for good music that is free! I always download the free single of the week, even if it's not really my style. I mean, you never know if one day it's going to become popular and you will be glad you got it for free, and if you don't like it, you don't have to put it on your iPod. Simple as that. Speaking of iTunes, I have some gift card money for that, but I don't know what to spend it on.

In other news, I am very behind on my podcast-listening. I haven't had time since I ride my bike to class instead of walking, and I don't have time during the day because if I am doing other stuff I don't usually listen to people talking. If I am not hearing what they are saying, what is the point of listening at all?

Darn, three whole paragraphs and nothing interesting yet. But I'm determined.
Must. Keep. Blogging...

Maybe now would be a good time to search out a question/topic to write about. How come I am so eager to blog, yet I can't seem to ever get around to writing about how the U.S. moved from isolation to an international role? Oh right, because that's even more boring than my own life,. well, at least to me. And it also takes some research, which is work. Pressing on...

Well I have looked through some questions and some of them looked interesting, but I realized I don't have time to be analyzing pointless things just for the fun of it. Who are we kidding, I am not a writer, I am just keeping track of my life on the internet. So I might as well talk about rowing. What a surprise!

Today we rowed our four again, and the second half of practice our set FINALLY got better! It was so exciting. I hope we get to row the four at practice a lot, since we are rowing it at the next 3 regattas. Speaking of regattas, one of them is 2 weeks after school gets out and I still have to ask someone if I can crash in thier apartment for that time. I am not "friends" with anyone who has an apartment, so it is kind of awkward for me, but lots of people have to do it, and I'm NOT staying at the crew house...eww. And I also have to figure out when I am moving all my stuff out of my dorm. I know, I know, more procrastination. It's been about an hour and a half since I started writing this blog post, so I guess it's time to finally start my paper... :( Let's hope my internet doesn't die on me just when I need it, as it seems to be slightly malfunctioning.

Song of the day: Show Me What I'm Looking For--Carolina Liar