It’s not midnight, so I can’t say I’m burning the midnight oil just yet. I finished one paper, and got 3 pages of the second one done. I don’t know how long it’s going to be in total. There’s a word count requirement, not a page count.

So far, I have approximately 1100 words down. There are supposed to be about 1500 in the first part and 4000 in the second. I’m not concerned with this. I’ll meet that rather easily, I think.

I’m not going to sit up late working on it. I have ALLL day tomorrow, and maybe even more time than that. The paper is due on Wednesday, but I’d like to submit a draft to the professor. If I have it to her by 11:59 p.m. tomorrow, she can get back to me with some feedback/direction before it’s due. I might take her up on it. We’ll see. I’m not terribly nervous about it. I feel more confident about this second longer paper than I did about the first one I did earlier tonight.

In other news, I’m still feeling pretty down and crappy, but am trying my best to just ignore it and not let myself fall into these negative, downwardly spiraling thought patterns. Instead, I am trying to organize externally, which sometimes makes me feel a little better. For example, I cleaned. Then I got a notepad and pen and jotted down - in messy eva shorthand - the titles of about 50 books I needed to add to my catalog on LibraryThing.com.

With these additions, my current library count is at 500 titles, and I know I haven’t gotten everything in the first layer of books yet. This means that sometime over the summer or any upcoming extended holiday weekend, it might be time to take the books off my bookshelves, write down the names of the books behind them, and then catalog THOSE. Otherwise, they just sit back there, forgotten and sad. I don’t want them to be forgotten and sad. If I had the room and the shelves, they’d all be out in the open. I can’t say “light of day” since I keep my curtains drawn and my room pretty dark due to personal preference and respect for the ravages of sunlight on books.

Suddenly, however, I am tired. I am going to settle in for the night. Tomorrow’s another fun day of academe.