It's 1:16 a.m., and I have ~ 7.5 pages complete. So now I have 12.75 hours to write 4.5 pages. Still about .333 pages per hour. So that means I'm on my pace, to finish at the time it's due in, without having slept. That's troublesome. I think as the hour gets later though, I start caring less, and just start throwing stuff down. So hopefully I will get some sleep at some point before 2 p.m. It does not look like I will be doing my calculus assignment, though.

I have one bright spot... one of the texts I haven't skimmed yet is the Tao te Ching, by Lao-Tzu. Well, upon opening it and flipping through it, I had the bright realization that if I quote this several times it will help a great day. It is written in kind of a poetry form, so the lines are not full lines. So if I quote a passage, I will quickly accrue some vertical span in my paper. Edging me closer to the bare minimum. Some people choose to do more, and [they] encourage that. Well here's my flair professor B.! Take that Taoist poetry!

Arby's needs your help. You order one of their combos, which includes a roast beef sandwich and an order of fries (Large size). They ask you which sauces you prefer, and you tell them Arby's sauce and ketchup.

Now, if you're not familiar with Arby's sauce, it's sauce for the roast beef sandwich, and it comes in a packet similar to your standard ketchup packet, except it has about... 50% more volume. So it's a big packet. Big enough that it's really only feasible to use one packet per sandwich. Even with just one packet, it will drip off of the sandwich while you eat it.

Well, continuing on with our hypothetical journey, you receive your food, with FOUR packets of Arby's sauce, and THREE packets of ketchup. Yes, there are three packets of Arby's sauce which you will definitely not be able to use, and you must be very judicious of your ketchup use in order to have enough to finish out the order of fries.

It's a tragedy really. Do they not know? Have they ever tried to eat the meal they serve? Is this an Arby's standard?

Eesh, give me some more ketchup instead of drowning me in Arby's sauce.

Please.

Matchbox Twenty - Long Day
"...Reach down your hand in your pocket
Pull out some hope for me
It’s been a long day, always ain’t that right
And no lord your hand won’t stop it
Just keep you trembling
It’s been a long day, always ain’t that right..."

Bebo Norman
"...I've got a little hope in my pocket,
I want to share a bit with you
Just be careful that you don't drop it,
but don't worry if you do
'Cause I got broken down inside me,
and I might just need some help
But I will get by..."

So, what's the deal with having hope in one's pocket? Is one of these two singer/songwriters the originator if this idea? Hmmm...

I work better under pressure.

Now I'm trying to make myself write this paper that's not due in until Tuesday. I want to do it because I have a large networking project I need to start on.. oh... yesterday or so. But the plan is to be ready to start Saturday. Or the hope is. So I should write the paper now. But it boils down to motivation. Knowing that I have to turn in a paper the next day, that is motivation. I can work under those conditions. I can skim and extract truths about deep philisophical concepts, at least well enough to get an A- (at least I did on the first half of the essay).

But now, I do anything but that. I don't watch TV generally. I channel-surfed and found Scrubs, which I recalled enjoying at some point when I did watch tv. So I watched Scrubs. Then most of ER. I talked to E__. and J___. And M___. I thought about pictures I recently uploaded. I thought about Yafro, a web site I found that lets you host images there, that seems to be pretty uncommon.

And I'm even writing something in my blog. Yowza. It is bad isn't it?
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I saw the apartment in which I will live next spring. It's pretty nice; hopefully it will work out well. It's near where I live now, and that is cool too.
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I th ink I may have to come to terms with being a slob. I didn't think I was. I still don't want to say it. I've said I'm too busy. I really think I would clean up, if I had more time. But I'm not going to have more time. It just won't happen. Not from when I moved in, until when I move out. Time gets filled with anything but entirely straightening up my room.

Oy. Two weeks from tomorrow, and it's over.
:-)
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Saturday night I'll be attending a Spring formal, and that should be loads of fun. Good times.

That is all.

Results from Taboo
Your Moralising Quotient of 0.53 compares to an average Moralising Quotient of 0.22. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are less permissive than average.

Your Interference Factor of 0.40 compares to an average Interference Factor of 0.14. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are more likely to recommend societal interference in matters of moral wrongdoing, in the form of prevention or punishment, than average.

Your Universalising Factor of 0.75 compares to an average Universalising Factor of 0.29. This means you are more likely than average to see moral wrongdoing in universal terms - that is, without regard to prevailing cultural norms and social conventions (at least as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned).

Amazon.com: Books: When the Aardvark Parked on the Ark and Other Poems
I bought this book today, and Dr. Miller signed it for me too! Neat-o. He does calligraphy -- I wish I could do that.

Wow, we are having some amazing weather now. Thank you God! It's times like these when sometimes I wonder if people see or hear me singing in my car. And then don't really care all that much. And half-way hope they do. :-)

Is there any chance that I could go to sleep tonight and wake up in the middle of May?

Blue Devils Fall In Final Four To UConn, 79-78 :: Huskies pull off furious comeback in the final minute.
Awww... sad day!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!