Headache Time aka The Countdown aka The Term Paper From Hell aka My Longest Post Title Ever

If you haven't caught one of the posts in which I was complaining about this being finals week and also having to finish a term paper (that I foolishly didn't bother to start until a couple weeks ago), I'm about to punish you for that.

Yesterday I got brave and started to work on my final project for my accounting class. It's a financial analysis of Home Depot. I'm just sick enough that I enjoy this kind of thing. Actually, it's going rather well, but if anyone can locate the net advertising expense in their 2006 annual financial reports, please contact me. I'll pay you. (I don't know what I'll pay you, maybe give you my entire stock of empty coca-cola cans that you can return for the deposit. Or maybe I'll let Daisy the Micro Mutt attack you. I just don't know.)

Anyways, moving on.

The financial analysis went pretty well. As a matter of fact, I have finished that and moved on to part 1 of the final exam. The final is 2 25-question tests. Much less nerve racking than one 50 question test, or maybe that's because the online class software doesn't allow the instructor to give us more than 25 questions per test.

Hopefully I have redeemed myself. By that I'm hoping to use the final grades to make up for the fact that I have completely loused up the last two quizzes. 40% on each. Figures. For weeks I was trying to do the assigned reading, complete all the assignments and do the quiz in one day and getting semi-respectable grades. Ones I yanked my head out of my ass and started to do the responsible thing and spend the entire week! studying the chapter I started to screw up. Go figure.

Moving on from the final exam to the Term Paper From Hell.

Last night I started punching in all sorts of different word combinations, hopeful but not optimistic that I would be able to find the full text of certain journal articles online that I could use in my research. Surprisingly, I found several. It was amazing.

Now I'm starting to wonder if there's such a thing as having too many sources. Does anyone know?

Actually, I'm thinking if I ever finish the damned thing, I might post it on this blog to torture everyone. Okay, really I would do that to show that I'm not seriously as much a dumb ass as you all think I am.