i have a 20-25 page seminar paper due in 36 hours.

"one of these days," she said, "i'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-- try to determine what character of a woman i am; for, candidly, i don't know. by all the codes which i am acquainted with, i am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. but some way i can't convince myself that i am. i must think about it."

-- from the awakening by kate chopin