I AM DONE

I'm finished.

The paper was 11 pages and I was supposed to be shooting for 15 but god damn, I have thought more about that paper than I have about I think any paper in my academic career except maybe my qualifying exam, and that is saying something. I wrote a note attached that says something like "I hope you realize how formative and awesome this class was, this isn't how I imagined my paper would turn out but I'm actually pretty pleased with the process, anyway thank you." Which is, I guess, how I feel, although I'm afraid it will come off as brown-nosing. Oh well.

And now I am cleaning off my desk, listening to "Lightbulb Sun" and remembering some of the cooler things about last night in this great way. I'm done! I'm done.

(Seriously though. It was so good. I just listened to "Fear of a Blank Planet" and it's actually pretty miserable-sounding in their studio recording -- I don't like the studio version at all. So don't judge it by that. I had forgotten how much more mellow Porcupine Tree actually sounds in the studio, because their concert was in no way mellow. "Blank Planet" at least does a lot better when they're playing it less mellowed-out.)