I booked a ferry and a motel in Salem for Halloween last night. This was very stupid of me for three reasons:
First: Money. I dropped maybe a month's rent for three days worth of vacation. Doubtless also I will buy silly clothes and books and brickabrack and of course enough food and alcohol for a small Roman legion.
Secondly: I have about 29 more pages of papers to write by November 2nd. 11 for Lit analysis, 11 for Revenge tragedies, and a little 7 page for Medieval History. If I do nothing else but work on all of these from now until the trip I think I can expect to blow through, maybe, 20 pages of A quality work, or all 29 of C quality. But wait!
The third reason: I have no fucking costume, and no time to start construction on any of the ambitious ideas I have.
But guess what?
If I don't do this? If I don't get this little break right about now for the Halloween I've been planning for since I was 16; the Halloween on a weekend and a full moon; the last great Halloween of my fleeting youth? I may have to [and I don't know how much I'm exaggerating here,] have a nice little breakdown, call a do-over, and just go trick-or-treating on Thanksgiving. And Christmas. And Valentines. And every other shitty holiday not worth being sober for until I feel repaid.
Though hm, that might be fun to do one way or another...
First: Money. I dropped maybe a month's rent for three days worth of vacation. Doubtless also I will buy silly clothes and books and brickabrack and of course enough food and alcohol for a small Roman legion.
Secondly: I have about 29 more pages of papers to write by November 2nd. 11 for Lit analysis, 11 for Revenge tragedies, and a little 7 page for Medieval History. If I do nothing else but work on all of these from now until the trip I think I can expect to blow through, maybe, 20 pages of A quality work, or all 29 of C quality. But wait!
The third reason: I have no fucking costume, and no time to start construction on any of the ambitious ideas I have.
But guess what?
If I don't do this? If I don't get this little break right about now for the Halloween I've been planning for since I was 16; the Halloween on a weekend and a full moon; the last great Halloween of my fleeting youth? I may have to [and I don't know how much I'm exaggerating here,] have a nice little breakdown, call a do-over, and just go trick-or-treating on Thanksgiving. And Christmas. And Valentines. And every other shitty holiday not worth being sober for until I feel repaid.
Though hm, that might be fun to do one way or another...