Nutty

I've been staring at various forms of blank word documents all day. I think I need to listen to new music or something. I've got a draft of a paper due Monday. I've spent the entire break reading everything I could about the topic and starting and erasing the paper. But the deadline is coming and I'm out of stuff that is even tangentially related to my topic to read. It's maddening. I need to get coffee, coffee will help me concentrate. No, I should write something then reward myself with coffee...
Coffee and a muffin. (Now blogger is telling me I'm mispelling coffee, what's going on?)

I just put on my headphones and it feels better. I think I'm going to listen to music on my headphones for a while. The stereo where I'm staying is fucked up. I think the kid blew the tweaters. The sound is really muffled with no brightness at all. By putting on my headphones I'll no longer be distracted by the bad sound coming out of the stereo and can write my paper.

I've spent most of my break almost working on my paper. I've done a few things for work and watched a couple movies but other than that I've slowly read a stack of law review articles, a book on the 4th Amendment, a bunch of cases but I haven't been writing. I could give up and try again tomorrow night but I really should at least write 5 pages tonight. I'm going nuts.

I found out that the thing you stick hot pots on so they don't burn your counter is called a trivet. Here's a review of a trivet if you're curious. She (I think it's a girl b/c the name starts with Sarah) doesn't talk about using it to warm tortillas. I would recommend against the Creuset trivet b/c the little metal mesh stuff is too close together to get your fingers between to flip the tortilla. If you check out her other reviews, especially the pencil, it seems like a good way to burn some time. Better than blogging about a paper that's got the thumbscrews on you but that you're still not writing.

I got the new Kills CD (they're playing on Sunday night so I definitely have to finish my paper by then otherwise Sunday will be a wicked late night and I have a short memo I have to write Monday and I don't want to write it with the woozy helmet on.) and I can't review it yet b/c I've only heard it on the crappy stereo. I guess I could throw it on the laptop and listen to it through headphones but I think I would rather spend the night listening to Josie Cotton and dancing like Molly Ringwald (I heard that the name of the dance she's trying to do in 16 candles is called the Clone.) while composing my paper, complete with new wave handclaps, in my head.
The tattoo has been pushed back to May 2. That's the dead days right before finals. Nothing intimidates those law review kids like someone who can spend 5 hours under the needle while reading the evidence E&E before walking into a final. This will definitely rig the curve in my favor. I'm also in negotiations to have a "lucky" finals sweater knitted for me. I'm about to tie my legs to the table with coping wire so I sit down and type my freakin' paper.
Maybe internet was a bad idea. Jets To Brazil are so very wise.