Almeda and Procrastination Fight to

Almeda and Procrastination Fight to the Pain

Almeda arose at 4:00 AM this morning to finish writing her paper on women authors of the Japanese Heian period. Somehow she managed to finish, although typically her computer froze several times and her printer was being peevish. Though she did finish, she was late to school and missed the first thirty minutes of first period due to the inefficiency of the dealing-with-late-students system.

"When I walked into English, we were taking a vocab quiz," says Almeda. "I was quite relieved because we were supposed to have read the majority of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by today, and I hadn't because I'd been writing my stupid paper, and I was afraid we were going to have to take a quiz on it, and I would fail, and my life would be over. So there were about ten minutes left in the period and everyone is like, 'Are we not having a quiz on Frederick Douglass today?' and 'I stayed up till two in the morning last night taking notes on Frederick Douglass,' so Mr Lodewick says, 'Fine, you want to take a quiz? We can take a quiz.' Then he passes out lined paper and starts asking questions. At this point I am finished my vocab quiz but I pretend to check my answers so it won't seem like I'm done."

Almeda eventually decides she might as well answer the Frederick Douglass questions, but since she did not read the assigned text, she can only answer three of the ten. When the bell rings, sadly she takes her vocabulary and Frederick Douglass quizzes to Mr Lodewick's desk.

"I gave him my vocab quiz and then I was going to give him my other paper, but he was like, 'Oh, you didn't have to do that,' and gestured to the trash can. I threw the thing in the trash and shimmered out of the room, convinced that Mr Lodewick is, as I've always suspected, a god among English teachers. What a noble, princely man!"

After she left English class, Almeda went to second period, world civilizations, where she turned in her research paper. "I should feel relieved, but I don't think it's really hit me yet," she testified. "Oh, and after everyone turned their papers in, we got doughnuts! And we watched Amistad, which is a gruesome, gruesome movie. It's sad because it's true."

Third period and fourth period passed uneventfully, and then came chemistry. "I had been so busy with my paper that I didn't have a chance to do my chem lab write-up," Almeda says. "I did it during the period after chemistry, lunch, but when I went to hand it in at the end of the day, Mr Palmer wasn't in his room. I think I'll just send it to him via e-mail and see what happens." She pauses for a minute, then concludes, "School sucks."

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