*pant pant*

If I write 6 pages every night between now and Thursday, I'll end up with 24 pages, which is just going to have to be bloody good enough.

I'm at the bottom of page 4 for tonight.

Two more pages til I let myself sleep.

I've only cheated and signed on to AIM once, and that was to find someone to answer a legitimate grammatical question.

I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.

*whips out Emergency Snickers Bar*

(My entries are going to be reeeeeeeal boring for the next three days or so. Sorry.)

T-18 pages and counting

After much blood, sweat, and tears, I made it to my 6-page goal for tonight*.

I actually only wrote maybe 4, 4 1/2 pages of new material, since I had the two pages I'd written last semester to get me started. Still, I had my workshop tonight so I didn't get started until 3-4 hours later than I'll be starting the rest of the week, and I had to spend a considerable amount of time rereading and reorganizing my notes so I'd have some idea of what to write about where. I'm pretty confident that it will all even out.

Something I tend to forget: I can be a determined little minx when I set my mind to it.

And now, I must get my beauty sleep so I can get up tomorrow and do it all over again.

3 more days. I can do this.

*Yes, I know I'm the slowest writer in the world, and thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?

T-15 pages and counting.

Hot damn, I'm at my halfway point for tonight and it's not even 11:30. At this point last night I think I'd only written about a page.

The writing's going surprisingly fast so far, though it's mostly coming in concentrated bursts of productivity followed by longish stretches of fucking around on LJ, which has become even more like crack than usual now that I've banned myself from AIM.

Which reminds me-- thanks to everyone who's dropped me IMs wishing me luck and telling me to get the hell offline and write my paper. I should probably add a caveat to my previous request that if it's before about 1:00 in the afternoon and I'm on AIM, it's probably because I'm pottering around checking the weather and whatnot before class--most of my procrastinating happens at night, anyway.

I do appreciate the good thoughts, though. :)

I just realized that Thursday is going to be hell because at this point I'm really going for page length rather than cohesion, and I can tell even as I'm writing that this is a disorganized mess. That means that come Thursday night I'm going to have to write my usual six pages plus rip the entire thing apart and put it back together again in some kind of logical order. If I'm feeling super productive, maybe I'll write an extra page or so tonight and tomorrow to make my life a little easier for the home stretch. We'll see what happens.

Incidentally, there was a point earlier this evening when three out of the four people in my multi-computer cubicle thing were on LJ. That amused me a lot.

I have been listening to John Mayer's Room For Squares for the past 5 hours straight. I swear to God, this CD is going to be ruined forever once this year's over; it will be forever associated in my mind with the most stressful time of my academic career. It's weird how quickly I fall into writing-mode as soon as those first few notes of No Such Thing start, though--I may end up being the first person to thank a CD on my thesis acknowledgments page.

Okay, now I'm just babbling. Back to work I go. Let's see if I can power through the next three pages by 2:00.