Be prepared - because everything that can go wrong, will go wrong!

Haven't posted in a while but today I made an LJ post... figured I should also post it here as well since I've neglected this for a few months... haven't yet had time to do my travel other posts. =)

Last week, my politics professor emphasised on how students shouldn't leave things till the last minute - in terms of procrastinating about essay writing.

Don't wait till the last minute
- to research
- to write your essay
- to print your essay
- to do your references
- to submit it to Turnitin.


Because come Monday, your computer will crash, your hard drive will fail, your printer will jam or run out of ink, your dog will eat your homework, your Internet wont connect, etc. So don't leave it up to chance. Finish it ASAP and hand it in early. People will be lining up to drop off the hard copy on the 8th floor. And you all know there's only one tiny lift that goes up that building. So chances are, that lift is going to break down and you don't want to have to run up 8 floors to make it in time before the deadline!

I'm usually one of those people who leave everything to the last minute. I hand in essays with the feeling that I'll be grateful if I just pass. Last week I had a Japanese literature essay due on Friday. It's one of the few essays I've started over a week in advance and I finished it over a day in advance. Except it's usually those essays that I fail terribly at.

Today's essay was another one of those last minute scrambles. I just couldn't get it right. I wasn't sure what it was, at first I couldn't pick a question because I found it difficult to interpret and understand all the questions). In the end, the topic I picked... I don't even know if I answered the question in the way they wanted.

In the end, I figured I'd be spending up til the very last minute fixing it up. Thanks to shuyiin though, I finished my essay at 3am. Actually, she didn't do anything except for ask to hang today before my classes at 3pm. I left the house to catch the 11:58 train - and thank god for that! Trains were delayed due to wires having fallen on the tracks at Greenlane. Southern Trains bound to and from Britomart had to move over to use the tracks used by the Onehunga Line so the Onehunga train had to wait for trains to pass - otherwise, obvious catastrophe, no?

Never mind! I was early to the city because of the plans with Shu. It was when I was telling her about what my professor said that I realised I had forgotten to print off the receipt from Turnitin! So it is true, everything that can go wrong... WILL go wrong!

After handing in the essay, we headed to Carl's Jr for lunch. Every time I eat there, I regret it afterwards...

Took a picture of this because it's the same number as my birth date! Ok /end lame.

So here's a cute picture instead...

Yes, that's my hand. My friend came over last night and gave me that bear! She wanted to get rid of it because it was a gift from her ex boyfriend and her current boyfriend has a problem with her holding onto it. How silly.