Scribble, Scribble, Stab

Just sitting here, chilling, "trimming the fat" off my research paper for English class. We had to pick someone to write a 4-page essay on, and I chose...OSCAR WILDE!! I love him so much! I'm so obsessed with him now, it's not even funny. I have his play The Importance of Being Earnest (which I saw in theatre class) in book form, I have his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and I have a 1000 page biography on him (for my research of course, but still interesting).

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is my IDOL! (yes, that is his real name...yes, I have it memorized...)

So yeah, back to my paper.

I seem to have this terrible, terrible, horrible curse that is called "You write too much". Yes. While most of my classmates are struggling with getting more "meat" in their paragraphs, I am sitting here trying to emaciate my paper in the hopes that it will no longer be 50 pages. (just kidding...it's about 7)

Anyways, I started out trying to combine sentences and/or taking unimportant things out, but now I've gotten to the point where I just take my magnificent pen of destruction and sweep it across an entire section and re-write the whole thing. Other times, I scribble out lines or sections of sentences and then glue the little pieces back together using a complicated, messy web of arrows and lines and astrixes*. At this point, I'm not sure if my essay is getting longer or shorter...but it's better, at least. Yay?

My english teacher is really cool, but sometimes she bugs me. She keeps confusing my friends and I about the whole citing your sources thing...it seems like every time we think we get it, she changes it. ugh! I think I've got it this time, but still...mreh. least favorite part EVER! But yeah, I stayed after class to ask her one more time how to do it and she started going through my whole paper (terror face) and marking things with her purple-pen-of-awesome-and-sometimes-non-awesome. I like being critqued, trust me, because it helps me grow and all that jazz, but really...so much purple...

But it's all fixed now, so it's okay.

Anyhoo, back to work!

P.S. the worst part of this whole thing, is that I'm cutting it all down so I can add more info. yeah, that's right, I'm not even halfway done writing my essay, and it's already too long. PONY-TOAST!!!