Work again

Tonight was probably the least stressful deadline day I've ever experienced. I had left writing my story for the Accent until today and I should have been pretty stressed out, but for some odd reason, wasn't (which is very good, just rather atypical since I like to be on schedule and get things done earlier rather than later). Yesterday afternoon I e-mailed my two main sources to get interviews with them so at least those were all set up and scheduled. So this morning I just went and haunted the SA office for about an hour, had great interviews, and tried to get another interview with a faculty member. She was out of her office until after lunch so I went back to my apartment to write for the rest of the morning/early afternoon. I called my third source after noon and did a phone interview with her. Then I wrote up my article in a very relaxed fashion. I even had time to donate to Danielle, who came over to use some of my resume paper and my editing knowledge. She was sending off the last of her grad school applications. After she left I ignored the giGANtic pile of dishes in the sink (unfortuntely we don't have a dish washer) and kept writing and editing and revising and writing some more, finally finishing about half an hour before my only class of the day.

After orchestra I returned to the Accent office after more than a month-long hiatus from student newspaper work. It was fun to hang out with the SJ&C crew again and good to get my brain back to editing. We were all really surprised how fast things came together tonight and how quickly we were getting done. When I got home I got an even bigger surprise; the sink was absolutely empty of dishes. Bryn and Josh had washed them for me, even though it was my turn to do the dishes about three turns ago . . . All I have to say is sisters and friends are great!