Prayers are needed..

My dad hasn't been really feeling well the last couple weeks. He kept mentioning that his chest feels funny. We've tried really hard to convince him to go see his doctor but he refused. This week however, his pain increased. And finally, Friday night I rushed him over to the ER. After running some tests, they kept him over night to monitor him. What they finally found out is that he has another clogged artery and he needs to go through the same surgery he did a decade ago... I've been going in and out of the hospital. It's all just so scary :( But at least this time he didn't have two heart attacks before he made it to the doctor..

Inshallah all will be well.. until then, if you're reading this, regardless of who you pray to or if you don't even believe in a higher being, please keep my dad in your prayers. I'm a big believer that with the help of science and God's will, all can be fixed.

Thank you.
-Mina

Would you look at that

So I don't really finish my paper at all but still reach the 10+ page limit. I mostly focused on my main arguement and my intro and that's exactly what I read to the class. I thought mine was the most ill-prepared and what not so I wasn't really looking forward to the 1-on-1 with the professor. The girl who went before me was there for 30 minutes so I thought, Oh, here we go. I'm probably going to be stuck there with her forever.

Surprisingly, she said she thought mine was the most well developed argument/paper from everyone. She just pointed out areas I could do without and what I should expand on (by giving sources to look at). Then I was out within 10 minutes. How about that! I'm getting better and better at this. I feel like I deserve a pat on the back (even though I procrastinated the crap out of it hah!).

Now I'm working on Irving's Rip Van Winkle. I'm relatively intersted in the topic so lets see if I can pull off 7 pages on it. I really do enjoy writing some of these papers. I wish I could share it here, but with all the cheaters out there, I think it's best not to. Ah well! Maybe I'll post summaries or something :)

Love from my end of the world to yours!
-M

Caution: works best under pressure

I don't know what it is or why I put myself through this every time with every assignment, but I always, always always, leave things for the last minute. And when I say last minute, I don't mean it metaphorically last minute. I literally mean the last minute. For example, my American Revolution Lit paper was due two weeks ago, and I finished the last sentence an hour before I leave for class (only because I had one other assignment that was also due before class haha). Although that one was not entirely my fault (sister's wedding going on and all), I still somehow wrote 12 pages out of no where over night and then still made it to class without being too overly late.

And then here I am again. I spent all of Friday and Saturday eating, sleeping and generally just bumming around. In fact, I spent most of today (Sunday) doing nothing as well. I finally got around to starting my paper at 11 PM when the paper is due tomorrow afternoon. I've done 2.5 pages and have about 7.5 left. That I plan on finishing after I come home from dropping my brother off at 730. If I am able to successfully take a nap from now till 730 then I think I should be able to BS my way through the rest of it. I know what to write, just gotta put it down in words and make it to the 10th page.

I guess I procrastinate because I have become so used to doing everything last minute that if I don't feel that urgent need/push to finish off whatever it is that I need to, I just don't get the same drive to finish it. I guess part of the problem (at least for this assignment) is that I'm not that interested in to begin with. I think if I was, I would be much more invested and finish this off a lot earlier. I mean, I did write a 25 page paper on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (Nonsexual Platonic Relationships in MSND) without much trouble few semesters ago. And then The Origin Zombie Culture and Its Affect on Western Culture, a 6.5 pager that I wrote Friday morning in a few hours. The paper I'm writing now is The Myth of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis--Why Hermaphroditus is Visually a Woman First. Le boringgg... hopefully something will ignite in me and I can pull this off.

Either way, the effects of cafe con leche and Cuban coffee has finally worn off. I will nap and the resume this torturous writing assignments.

Goodnight (morning??) from my end of the world!

-M

A bit of moral boost

I can't believe I'm up still doing everything but my homework while everyone is asleep.

It's either me being silly or my period speaking, but sometimes, I think it would be nice to be someone else's top priority for once. You know, for someone to actually listen to my answer when (rather, IF EVER) asked, "So, how was your day?"

But there I go again expecting people to treat me like I treat them. No use of being a hussy.




-M