where have all the good weekends gone?

Staying up until 3:00 in the morning for the better part of a week can really screw up the way you function. I'm not eating, not sleeping, cursing myself when I actually do fall asleep and then again when I sleep in too much. What has the world come to when rest and relaxation has become a bad thing?!

Urban Dictionary defines the heinous term DEADLINE, which:
Designates the approximate point in time at which work begins in earnest; employee motivation is frequently observed to be "dead" before the deadline draws near.

"Christ, it's the nearly deadline already?! Hey Pete, put down the controller my friend - it's time that we looked at these shuttle schematics."

And in this case, shuttle schematics is a metaphor for the mindfuck of the week:

English
ISU
Logs.

Yep, it's that time of year again; the time when teachers of every subject delude students into believing their generosity and thoughtfulness by not piling on the independent assignments last-minute come January. Instead, they make the due date halfway through the semester to allow for the balancing of subjects.

Be warned, my friends, that this is no more or less than a strategic attack on the mental and physical health of the student body. Teenagers suffering from this ungodly amount of reading and writing have been found to develop extreme difficulty speaking. After spending countless (25+ dammit!) hours in front of the merciless glare of the monitor, students tend to slur their words together - even msn conversations lack the use of a spacebar:

BRD2TRS says: shitmanihaventdonemyenglishyet.

COD calls! [brb] says: yeahmanmeneitherfml.

Other symptoms include:
- constant fidgetting
- empty Tim Horton's cups littering the desktop
- forlorn appearance (droopy eyes, dragging feet, sagging shoulders)
- starvation*
- cries of agony (which can vary from a low, grumbly register to a high-pitched sceam)

*with the exception of caffeine-related products

So, for those of you suffering the way I am, I assure you - the end is near! You will soon be able to step outside into the sun again, breathe fresh air and frolic through meadows without a care in the world.

Until your next ISU is due, that is.

I must soon take my leave (as I have almost an entire log to finish in less than one day - wish me luck!) but before I do, I would very much like to thank my coffee maker and kettle, without whose support I would not be here today.

Fare thee well, fellow ISUers;

and future 4U students - beware!

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not at all formal. format crazy > it's choppy.
but it was fun to write! (take THAT, english department!)

:) no hard feelings, ms hathaway!