Alison and the Horrible, Awful, No Good, Very Bad Day

I didn't get any sleep last night and spent the whole time in a computer lab writing a paper that I didn't start until 1:00 a.m. Very stupid and very bad move. Somehow I made it, despite the horrible, horrible, horrible, indescribably bad evening/night that I had yesterday. I'm shocked. I was really really upset for awhile, so I wrote this really long, stupid, whiny entry on this page, then realized how stupid it was, and now BAM! It's deleted! Which is good because I should never ever ever write spontaneous entries on no sleep because really stupid things are bound to be said. But that's remedied, and I'm in a much better mood now.

My really bad night turned into a bad morning though when I couldn't get the paper that I was up all night writing printed anywhere on campus because the printing network was messed up, and my printer doesn't work right now because my computer is kind of messed up too. So I had to tell my professor that I couldn't get it printed, which I really really didn't want to do, but he didn't seem to care. He let me print it out on the printer in his office. That was actually really good because I'd never really talked to him before and I was thinking of eventually asking him to be my advisor, and I didn't want to just randomly walk up and ask him. So now maybe I can talk to him more and then ask him. I just don't know how to go about doing that, it seems awkward/weird. I guess everyone does it though.

Anyway, I finished the rough draft of the paper, which we were just peer editing in class, but I was freaking out about, because I get really picky when it comes to writing papers. I read this one girl's paper in class, and I don't intend to sound mean or anything, but her paper was so so so so so so bad. She didn't have a clear thesis, and it was like she had just shoved a bunch of random paragraphs together to try to make it pass for a paper. There was no clear argument at all, and I can honestly say I didn't pick up one common theme throughout the whole paper. Plus there was no concluding paragraph. I'm not claiming that I'm going to win a Pulizter within the next year, but I know how to create an argument and support it throughout the paper with a good concluding paragraph. I mean, I haven't written a paper the way that girl did since I was in 9th or 10th grade. Sorry, I know I probably sound incredibly stuck up, but I'm more like appalled or shocked. I just get really picky about my papers and have to make sure everything is perfect. I guess I just assume everyone is like that. Also, I guess I forget that not everyone is as nerdy as me and they don't read books about how to write, different styles of writing, and different techniques of writing just for fun.

Ok, I'm done complaining about the quality of other people's writing. I don't even feel the slightest bit upset like I did last night. I swear I'm one of the moodiest people on the face of the earth. I can go from being ecstatically happy, to unmoved, to easily excitable and giggly, to flat out depressed and in tears, to really mellow and calm, all in one day. Maybe I'm bipolar. J/K. Now it's nap time and then it's Wednesday, Part II. At least one of my classes for today was cancelled!