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You’d never believe it, but I survived my homework last night. Then again, I doubt many of you would believe I were Blogging from the Beyond right about now, so really, what does that leave you with? Nothing, I suppose, and that’s just not acceptable. So here’s this: I survived last night, which seems surprising, but is certainly more likely than the obvious alternatives.

I got to a stopping point on my PowerPoint around 11:30pm. I’d like to say I finished it, but there’s a lot of things I would have liked to have done given an infinite amount of time, and that’s something I don’t have. However, I have a beginning slide and an ending slide and forty-five or so other ones in between, and a fair degree of continuity cohering them all into one yummy gooey mess, so that will have to do.

However, after that, I was tired. Really tired. And I hadn’t started writing my story yet. The real problem with this story, is it had to be based on a story taken from this collection of short stories we have. And I hadn’t read any of them. So I took the book to bed with me and scanned the titles for something that sounded like it would appeal to my tastes. I settled on Tony Earley’s “the Prophet from Jupiter” because that sounded like a title I could really sink my noggin into.

Turns out, the title’s about some guy from Jupiter, Florida. Which wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. It stuck a grain of a story in my mind, though. Something about my hometown. So I went to bed and let that little grain ferment in my skull. And by the time I woke up six hours later, it’d turned into something tasty. I spent every one of the four hours I had before class writing the story, and got it done just in time to shower and go. And I don’t think it’s half bad. I like it, at least, and I’ve gotten one or two good comments so far. It’s completely non-speculative, though, which isn’t like me.

I’ll still be spending all tonight doing homework. I need to write my testing report and a memo to go with my PowerPoint, and that’ll probably take me more hours than I care to think about just now. If I don’t get a chance to update again tonight, have a good Wednesday (*hump* day, in Gnomespeak).