Murphy's Law

So it was Wednesday night (technically Thursday morning I suppose), I was talking to FatMan on AIM, and I had A.P. Gov homework which for once had to be done online.

This was the last thing I said to him:

"I think I'll start my homework now."

Then my internet cuts out. Right then. Really.

So the internet is out for Thursday and most of Friday.

Did I mention I had a term paper due yesterday?

Yeah, not cool.

And so that began the most annoying two days of my life. Who knew a person could be so dependent on the internet? Even though (luckily) my sources for my paper weren't internet sources, I still needed it to write my works cited page and look up words on Merriam-Webster Online. In fact, I had to do that part in school. What was supposed to be a lovely, relaxing day turned into a stressful nightmare thanks to having an incomplete term paper looming on my mind. All those wasted hours in school that were supposed to calm me down only made me worry that I was wasting time when I could have been finishing my paper (and I really did need to finish).

Already, it was the day with my free period and independent study in art, so I would have been done anyway by third period. To add to that though, there weren't enough subs so my class sat in the auditorium doing nothing for first period, and then since half the class was missing my second period teacher didn't do anything either.

While I would have normally loved this, I kept stressing out and saying to myself, "I could be working on my term paper right now!"

Working since I got home and gallantly fighting the urge to fall asleep, I eventually finished at 8 and e-mailed it to my teacher by 9, so I'm good (I had until 10 to get it to her). It's just too bad that I wasted a GORGEOUS day inside and that I finished so late that everyone already had plans and I couldn't really hang out with anyone after (plus I desperately needed sleep).

So should I have learned a lesson from all of this? Did I deserve this for waiting until the last minute? Maybe, but who actually doesn't wait until very last moment to do things?

Honestly. All I've learned is that Murphy's Law really does suck.