Taking a Breath

I turned in the first writing assignment of the spring semester today. In the fall, I did a good job of managing my writing assignments and finishing them well ahead of the deadlines. This paper, by contrast, was written in a heated few days leading up to the deadline. I hope the quality didn't suffer too much.

I am obviously not the only one who flirted with the deadline. Absenteeism in class has been running at thirty or forty percent for the last couple of days. People weren't so cavalier about missing class in the fall. Some professors took it better than others. The Property professor really raked those of us who showed up over the coals. I was not called on, thank goodness.