An end to Wednesday

I'm so happy that Wednesday is academically over. It is, of course, the longest day of my week, and this week it was the day that hideous paper was due. Surprisingly, my paper came together. And I'm actually content with it. It finished at 7.16 pages long (consider yourself lucky if you weren't receiving the incremental status reports...), and cited 20 of my references. I stand corrected, by the way, about my earlier statement regarding my research effort vs. that of my classmates'. One of my friends actually cited 48 references, and the two papers I've been given to peer review both use a couple more than I do. I'm not sure, however, how many people are really being truthful about the number of papers that they've read. My friend with 48 definitely cheated a little bit. That's ok. I almost did the same on my takehome midterm the other week, but it turned out that all of the articles I could find that seemingly said what I wanted them to in the abstract, actually said something quite different. Luckily I skimmed the discussion sections and noticed that. It's probably better to just not have a reference for something than to wrongfully attribute something to a reference you clearly didn't actually read.

I actually finished my paper pretty early too. The first draft got printed out before midnight! Considering I got off to a slow start and I had to go back to Davis for a class (and motivational pearl milk tea) in the middle, that amounts to writing about 1 page an hour! Go me! (That's about my average rate, and I think it's a pretty decent one...)

Unfortunately, I was too caffeinated to really sleep when I went to bed. The worst part was that as soon as I had actually fallen asleep, I was awoken by a creepy noise. I could've sworn it was a huge mosquito buzzing around my head. The paranioa and swatting of course woke me up. Turns out it wasn't a mosquito. (Duh, you say. It's almost winter. All mosquitoes are dead). Instead it was just the cat snoring. Sheesh. Makes a funny story now, but I wasn't so thrilled by it in the wee hours of the morning...

OK, I'm off to slack off and relax. This has been deemed by royal order a no work evening. All hail the queen!