so i worked straight through from friday night to saturday on thesis...1 1/2 hours of sleep...so we(gerren, mo, and i) decided that we needed to call fedex and find out what their last pick up time was for our papers to be recieved at asu by noon...they said 3pm.
my plan: work on paper until 2pm, be printing the paper and burning cd by 2:30 so i could take it down to fedex/kinkos by 2:45--which is only 5 blocks away, not far at all--and then have it sent out by 3pm...
it's a good plan, and would have been better had i stuck to it a little closer...instead i was living in that show "24":
Saturday:
12:15--sitting in front of computer totally zoned out trying to come up with more diagrams that would help my now 10,000 word paper
2:24--sending my paper to print, all 51 pages, 10pt font, 1.5 spacing...
2:25--realization that moe sent a SINGLE GIANT pdf to print before my paper in the printing que
2:35--pacing in front of the color printer hoping that the computer guy will delete moe's corrupted file from the que so that mine can advance...
2:39--the computer guy finishes explaining the problem that the printer had with his file to mohammad
2:43--computer guy gets off of phone with tech guy saying that it would be another 15-30 minutes before he got there to restart the printer
2:49--gerren(roommate,fellow thesis pursuer) walks by and tells me that he has the address to send our papers to(ASU) and then disappears down a hall
2:51--i am now standing at the black and white printer getting the last pages of my paper from the tray
2:52--bounding down 4 flights of stairs in a shear adrenaline panic (remember still no sleep)
then SPRINTING FULL SPEED down the street with a paper-clipped thesis and 2 cds...
so at this point i look like a complete idiot, or criminal, with the intensity and speed of my running, that and people were staring at me as i ran past them...so i felt ridiculos and just started walking fast....then realized that my thesis advisors don't care how stupid i looked as long as i put my paper in their hands...so i started running again...full-speed...
as i am approaching the on-campus copy center(about half a block away) i see gerren literally burst through the doors and onto the street then begin to run full speed up the block...
i have 1 of 2 options at this point...start chasing after my friend and hope he knows what he's doing or go in and make sure he's right to be running to a different location....so i go in, ask the guy about the pick up time(by now it's probably 3:02-3:10) and he says the fedex guy already picked up the packages for the day and there's another fedex drop off up the street(another block and a half)---mind you this discussion and my pause took a total of
so I TOO burst through the doors back to the street and am at this point LITERALLY CHASING gerren up the street only around a block behind him...but i don't know where the other drop off point is b/c i haven't really slept and i didn't really pay attention to the directions the guy gave me....so i have to keep an eye on gerren to see where he goes...he slows down to start walking and so i start running even faster to try to catch up with him...when he turns into a building....
so i walk in about a minute to a minute and a half behind him, and gerren is asking the guy behind the desk if the fedex guy--who is there picking up the other packages--if he could wait 2 more minutes to add ours to the group!! GOT IT !!!
funniest part was when i was filling out the forms for the package delivery and i was so tired, so flustered, so pumped full of a mix of adrenaline and shear panic, that i not only forgot my phone number, i incorporated ALL THREE of my current addresses into one(1. dallas/ft. worth, 2. new orleans, 3. philadelphia) so it read as this:
4528(PA) Riverwalk Court(TX)
Philadelphia, PA 70118(New orleans)
so i got it in on time...with a great crazy story to boot...and i only have 1 more deadline for upenn before i'm done with thesis(only for the school's requirements) for the semester!! THEREFORE the song of the day yesterday was "WEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIEND!!! DON DON DON DON, AND WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING TILL THE END, DON DON DON, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, NOOO TIME FOR LOOOOOSSSERRRS CAUSE WEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.......OF THE WOOORRRRLLLLD!!!"
Dec. 9th is the presentation for 5 jurors...i'll have a better victory song by then...promise!!
posted by ekeith @ 5:57 PM
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