So, one nice thing about having done NaNoWriMo a couple years ago is that I now know that I can churn out quite large amounts of intelligible prose in short periods of time. Which skill is very much going to be put to the test over the next two days. I have pretty well finished my reading for my final essay for cataloging, and I have some ideas about what I want to write, but I have not begun to write yet. And it is due Thursday. It is supposed to be 3000-4000 words, and I was easily churning out 5000 words a day during the last days of NaNoWriMo (granted, many of these words were really, really stupid, but I also didn't have any notes or outline to be working from, and I do have those this time around). So I know it's entirely do-able; what should do is write a draft tomorrow, revise the draft Wednesday, and then put on some finishing touches on Thursday. But I have a bad feeling that I'm going to get into a lot of procrastinating followed by freaking out on Thursday. Also, I have less difficult assignment to complete as well;I was hoping to do that after I got back the last assignment, but unless the other assignment is returned tomorrow, I don't think that's going to work. Eek. Totally should not be posting to LJ right now, you know.

Also, really, it doesn't make any sense to go to class tomorrow, given that I'm not going to be graded on anything I learn in these last two classes. But I probably will go; I paid good money for this class. And it's been pretty interesting so far. I might have to call in sick on Wednesday, though (but I never do that, at least not unless I'm a little teeny bit sick, and I don't think I'm likely to get very sick by Wednesday, although I've been eating and sleeping badly for the last week or so, so you never know).

I just wrote this big long entry about how my TiVo made me cry, and then LJ and the school wireless network conspired to eat it. So now I want to cry again. I really need a day off. I don't know how much longer I can keep going like this.

(ETA: this sounds a little more depressed than I actually am right now -- I'm mostly still feeling overwhelmed by all the stuff I have to get done and the fact that none of it looks to be wrapping up any time soon, and I'm realizing how much two years of working 6 days a week have worn me down)