Am I done?…
22 03 2008So I’ve really bunkered down and spent the last few days on IS solely, stopping only for runs to McDonalds and Starbucks for coffee (yes, I love capitalism. And caffeine. My ulcer Larry enjoys neither of those things. 
). So here I sit, Friday night (well, Saturday morning, really) and I think I may be done. 80 pages of pure brilliance, haha. Not quite brilliance, but I don’t think I would change anything about it, unless my sister Caroline or my brother in law Daniel tell me to, in which case I totally will. I sent it off to them and I’m a little terrified of their critique. Caroline was a political science major in college and Daniel’s a classicist, so they are the perfect people to be reading my IS. I hope they like it…and I hope they read this post, so they know to be gentle, haha.
I got a call from my friend Jackie the other night, she was having trouble writing her acknowledgements page because she was getting too emotional. I talked her through it and couldn’t really imagine reacting that way…until I wrote mine a few hours later. Welcome to the waterworks. This project has been such a rollercoaster (which is still not over) and I’m towards the end of the ride, which means I’m excited, tired, and a little nauseated, haha.
UPDATE, SATURDAY, 4:40pm—I just came back from the bookstore from having my IS copies bound. Two go to the Registrar, one is mine, one goes to my mom, and one goes to my grandfather. They’re sitting neatly in a bag on my bed and I don’t even know what to do with myself now. I met some proud parents in the bookstore whose son graduated last year and whose other son is a sophomore right now and they were so excited for me. I love the spirit of IS around campus, you hit such a strange mix of people on the Saturday before IS Monday. Some of us are excited and delirious; others haven’t shaved in days and do not foresee sleeping any time soon. But that’s what makes IS Monday so great—we’re all equals that day and we all celebrate the same. I’ll update to let everyone know what number I got, I’m shooting for below 200… 
