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So I set my alarm to get me up at 8:30 this morning because I need to write a 5-page paper today (btw, current word count = 0! I'm doing well here.) and I don't have class until 3 on Tuesdays. And then there was a power outage in the middle of the night last night in the dorms. So I didn't wake up until 10:15. sigh. At least I didn't have class this morning. I was talking to a girl in my German lab, and she said that you could tell who used their cell phones as alarm clocks and who used actual alarm clocks plugged into the wall by who actually got to class on-time. But yeah, so I lost a couple hours of work due to that. I totally would have gotten up sooner if my bed was de-lofted because then I would have been able to see that the clock wasn't working since I totally wake up at 7 AM every morning because that's when people come to clean the bathrooms and lounge area and stuff (very loudly. And yes, this is VERY annoying. I'd like to sleep in past 7!), but I couldn't see the clock and I forgot to put on my watch last night when I went to sleep, which I usually have on, and yeah, basically, that kind of sucked.

But the paper isn't due until Friday, so at least I do have time. I just wanted to finish it today because my parents are coming up Thursday and I'd like to spend time with them rather than writing a paper. And Wednesday I'll only have a few hours because of all my classes and homework I'll have to do that's due Friday and such. Of course, the several hours I wasted today procrastinating on-line not writing my paper had nothing to do with the power outage. But whatever. It'll be fine. I'll get it done. And she describes it as a library research paper, but it's really not, because all it involves is summarizing 4 articles on a topic (my topic is international adoption) and then finding two organizations that deal with problems relating to the topic and describing how they help parents in that situation. So, really, it's pretty much nothing, and I've written longer papers in the same amount of time where I've had to do much more analysis. So that's probably why I'm not freaking out yet. Although maybe it would be better if I were freaking out, because then I'd actually get something done!

Also, remember how I was worried about the two math quizzes from last week? Well, we got full credit on the group quiz that I thought I had screwed up for my group, and I initially got a 15/20 on the second quiz from Friday, but then it turned out that he hadn't realized that I was using the right method and did everything right, but I just found the expression of the vector wrong (ugh, it was so stupid, because I had found the expression of the vector in the previous question correctly, and if I had just used that instead of finding it a second time, I would have gotten full credit), so I talked to him and he gave me an 18/20 (the two points off being for my ridiculously stupid math error). So that turned out well, although it would have been nice if I had gotten full credit on the second quiz so I could do worse, potentially, on future quizzes. But whatever, apparently I have a better grasp of the concepts we were learning last week than I realized.

Um, what else? My Research in Psych exam yesterday was ridiculously easy, and now I'm kind of regretting studying at all for it. I spent like 3-5 hours total Sunday studying for it when I could've spent, like, 1, and still done just as well. Well, that's assuming I did do well. I may have made stupid errors. But I could've spent that time starting this paper on Sunday instead of leaving it until today. For that matter, though, I could've started writing this paper Sunday before I started studying (because I didn't start studying until like 6), or even on Saturday, when I originally planned to start it and then did nothing.

Bottom line: I'm getting an A+ in procrastination this week! sigh.

I missed most of the TV stuff last night. I saw How I Met Your Mother which was fun, but nothing spectacular (kind of a filler episode), and Heroes, which was... fine, I guess. I liked the premiere more. I really just don't care about what happens in Heroes, though, I'm finding. I'm starting to consider not watching it anymore, but I don't know. We'll see. I would keep watching it, but there are just so many TV shows on Mondays. I really want to watch Gossip Girl, but I haven't yet. I'm not sure when I will get a chance. After this week school should get less hectic. I hope. It's mostly just hectic this week because of my parents visiting; last week was probably more hectic in terms of how much stuff I had to do. I'm really looking forward to seeing my parents, anyways.

Oh, last thing, this girl on my floor is in the final 100 for the next season of America's Next Top Model! Pretty cool. I might actually watch next season if she makes the premiere.