7:30 PM I'm working on my paper on Tokugawa samurai. I will finish it today, yes I will, even if I have to stay up all night. It's due on Monday and I don't want to be sitting here like this 24 hours from now on Sunday night. Tomorrow I want to be relaxing, not doing homework all day. I'm still working on the research. It's not coming along very well. The problem is the length. It's supposed to be 5-7 pages and it always seems like I have about enough information to write a page, which means that I have to find ways to expand it 4 more pages which is pretty difficult. Another problem is, if I know what I want to say, I have to find evidence in the books to support it. I hate doing that. I hate writing papers, I guess I could say that.

this time I will be back. Yes, I will, because, well, I said so.

hmm.. telnet's looking a little jerky.

3:17 AM just stopping by for a quick update. Still researching, got about 45 more pages to puruse through. then it's time to start writing. back later.

4:33 AM just finished compiling notes. next step is writing the actual paper. I have a good number of pages of notes, although some are just repeats of same thing from different books, but that's okie. hopefully within an hour or so i'll have these notes whipped into a five page report. gonna take a quick break to take my vitamins and to see if my notes printed out in the other room. not sure if Casper is still up.

4:41 AM took the vitamins. too bad they're not super-caffeinated kine. As I suspected Casper is down for the night. Oh well, guess I'll make due with on-screen notes. I don't feel like booting up just to print out notes. It can wait until tomorrow to print stuff. Here we go, to the report factory! will check in in a few hours. hopefully.

7:13 AM about half done, i need a break, i'm falling asleep, just a little bit. gonna go wash my face, grab some water, and stretch a little bit before pushing on to the end.

7:21 AM alrighty! recharge, refreshed, ready to go the distance! Can I finish the other half in the 40 minutes before W wakes up?? Let's find out!

9:45 AM well, here I am 14.25 hours later. I'm finally done, and it actually turned out to be a healthy six pages long. God bless double spacing. I actually finished a little sooner but I was snuggling with Wayne-bow since I didn't get to sleep with him last night. I'm looking through W's Secrets of the Samurai book to see if I can find some spiffy pictures to spiff up my report with. Not that we need pictures or anything, but I just feel like it. Just so McNally won't get bored reading it or anything. Now I'm trying to decide if I should go to sleep or not. I have some small homeworks to be done for tomorrow, maybe I should do those now? Or maybe I should take a nap and do them later? I think we're supposed to go eat dinner with W's dad tonight. hmm.. I think i'll try doing my work, I'll most likely just end up falling asleep while I'm doing it though, that's ok, I'm probably tired. I just ate some peaches. they were good.