After a grand total of 1.5 hours of sleep the night before, I was not quite as pumped for the second half of the thesising marathon as I´d hoped to be. My writing was still pretty quality in the morning, but by late afternoon, I was decidedly less... lucid... and my words were struggling to surface. THAT is the worst feeling for a writer, I think. When you know there is a word that would fit perfectly in a sentence, but you just. cannot. find. it. >_< Sometimes when this happens I think I can literally feel the synapses in my brain trying to fire, but coming up with blocked pathways each and every time... and the more I think, the more my brain literally starts to hurt.
By 7:30 I HAD to be done. I easily could have taken a whole other day to do my citations better and to reword two parts whose paragraphs ended up falling onto the page more like toddler splatter paint than an impressionist work of art, but I had to quickly reformat it onto Abby´s computer (mine doens´t have Word, it has the free version) and stick it on a USB drive before the print shop closed! I ran to the print shop to have it printed and bound (¨encuadernar¨ has to be one of the tickliest words to say in Spanish!), and was delighted when I saw how THICK it turned out to be! The page requirement was 50 pages ¨more or less.¨ Mine? Mine was 101 pages! BOOYAH!
You know me... once I get typing about something I´m really passionate about, I just can´t stop. *shrug*
I went back home to have my roomies take a cute ¨I AM DONE!!!¨ picture of me and my baby thesis, and then put the document on a CD (as requested by my advisor). By the time it was done, I realized I had 7 minutes to RUN to the university and submit it by the deadline.
Running on 1.5 hours of sleep is... a challenge. That´s all I have to say about that.
But I MADE IT! YAY!
As I left the building, one of my most favorite girls from my program was running up to submit hers, too (ha, I wasn´t the latest one!). We were ridiculously delighted to see each other after sever months. :) When our director asked what we were going to do this weekend, we both responded in unison: ¨SLEEP.¨ And then my friend laughed and said, ¨Well, drink, too...¨ Haha. This propted her to ask me if I wanted to go out for a drink to celebrate! I said sure, despite being deliriously sleepy.
Five hours, two tintos de verano and three shots of Jack later... I was in all smiles. Depite being so tired, I had a great night talking and giggling and having a burger and drinks with her! We made tenative plans to meet up the next day for a wine tasting, and parted ways to go catch up our sleep!
Awesome ending to a stressful, thesis filled day!
XOXO
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