Weekend? What weekend?

I have never felt more like a college student.

This weekend was full of one thing: Papers. Lots of papers. The universe decided to play a trick on my calendar, and threw three full academic papers at me at once. Two were due Tuesday, while the third, in progress, is due Thursday. All are somewhere between 5 and 7 pages.

So, whew, did I feel like an academic as I said goodbye to the beautiful snowy world this weekend, locked the door, and faced the blinking cursor on my word program. I guess I don't have a whole lot to say on the subject (in fact, I'm rather talked out), but it felt like a milestone in my freshman year. The first weekend of "oh my goodness I have a lot of thinking to do."

Overall, I guess I'm glad I'm not the kind of person who leaves things to the very last minute. I mean, I could have worked ahead last week to get one of the three papers done before the weekend started, but at least I didn't leave one of the Tuesday papers until Monday night. I honestly don't know how people procrastinate that long -- I'd buckle under that kind of stress. But to each, his own, I guess.

Throughout the process, my mind kept wandering to a time when I wouldn't have to be writing papers non-stop. First it would think "by next week, these three papers are done, then I can relax." But then I'd realize that once these papers are done, I'll have to start the Thanksgiving break workload that comes with the semester ending... the workload which has a significantly high number of papers in it. So then I'd resign myself to the fact that Winter Break is my big countdown deadline... once December 15 hits, then I'll be free.

And so now I'm really looking forward to that glorious month off. (Yes, a month!! I know, I can't believe it either). So, to anyone out there who happens to be reading this... do you have any fun Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanza/Solstice/Winter related plans? Feel free to share!

With that, I think I'll leave you. Cheers :)

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