The mint rubbers linked me! I love them. I truly do.

Okay, I've got my maaassive outline to my left, my research at arm's length, a contraband sandwich in my bookbag and... there -- a Word document open.

I'm going to rock this paper out, my people. I have never in my whole paper-writing life had this much solid research, or so many really good ideas. There will be absolutely no "bull shit" in this paper. None. All I have to do today is connect the dots.

And then I am all but free!

And then I will stop writing mind-numbing diary entries. I promise. I think it's possible that I cannot write good papers and good diaries at once. But the sacrifice will end soon.