It's just one damn thing after another today

Okay, so every semester U of M students are allocated 400 free pages of printing; after that we get charged .08 per page.

I have never, ever come close to reaching that limit.

Well, as of today I have maxed out my printing allocation.

I have... at least 50 more pages to print out before this semester is over, and that's assuming I only print out final, turn-inable copies.

Fuck.

Between that and the cost of replacing the stolen library books, this is turning into a very expensive semester indeed.

I guess I'll just have to figure out what's more expensive-- sucking it up and paying the 8 cents a page, or printing everything on my own printer and probably demolishing an entire ink cartridge over the next two weeks.

(I'm two lines onto page 24! If I can get my endnotes onto page 25, I will be able to go to bed a happy girlie, as long as I ignore the 10 *more* pages I have to write tomorrow after class and possibly even after my writing workshop, and the birthday celebration that will probably have to be postponed now. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that prison bureaucracy continues to suck.)

And now if you'll excuse me, I have a long-overdue date with my teddy bear

25 fucking pages.

Granted, that's only counting endnotes--without them I'm about 10 lines onto page 24--but still.

Longest thing I've ever written to date.

And it may be after 5 AM, and I may still have an assload of writing that probably won't get finished tomorrow... but damn I'm proud of myself right now.

25 pages. I didn't really think I'd make it.

*yawn*

Someone out there wanna come bring me Dr. Pepper and give me a shoulder rub? I'm in the Fishbowl, in the middle row of Macs toward the front and next to the consultant station. I'll love you forever.

It can't be a good sign that it's 7:35, I'm already running solely on caffeine and adrenaline, and I'm still only in the note-taking stages.

Thank goodness I decided to skip the last two hours of Children's Lit today so I could take a nap.

Also thank goodness for jelly bellies. Mmmm, sanity and sugar in bean form.

Waaaay too early to be this loopy.