~ another human emotion, relief ~
Today, my friends, is a glorious day in that it marks the end of this week. By the time that I had depressed the SEND button on my email to my professor with an attachment of my research paper, I was feeling somewhat sad that bars do not open at 9:00 in the a.m. Also sad that it's not appropriate to drink champagne at work. 'Cause I felt lik celebrating!
I had opted to convert my research paper into a .pdf so that it wouldn't be quite so obvious that I had not followed some of the formating rules, such as double spaced instead of 1.5 spaced and 12 point font instead of 11 point font. What with brevity not being my strong point, it is much more simple to defy rules and guidelines than trying to constrain my brilliance. Of course, in my email, I said some bs about wanting to make sure that the file transfered well because I've got a "weird version of Word," which is a total lie.
Anyway, I stayed up really late working on the paper and I found that once I started sipping on a beer, I was more intellectually stimulated and inspired. And feeling stimulated and inspired somewhat made up for the fact that I have had virtually no life all week. Today also marks the beginning of spring break and I am looking forward to not giving one second of a thought to the public policy process. On my walk to work, I decided to treat myself to a 16 oz. mocha and while I was at the coffee shop, I ran into one of my classmates who articulated that we are well deserving of a break.