The ideal paper, and in my case the actual as well, has two equally important parts:

1. Snappy beginning. A witty title leads into a masterful introduction
2. The other stuff I stick in later

As you can see, I'm a firm believer in the perfect introduction approach. No outlines for me, either. Roughly half my time for each paper is spent working on the first paragraph, and the rest is filler in comparison, or just filler in general.

I slept through Calc (choosing instead to have a weird dream involving a salamander child of some sort) and Qur'an was cancelled, so I had a chance to eat breakfast downstairs this morning. It was the third time this year, I think.

I ran into The Idyllist and our benignly womanizing R.A, and was coached through the complex procedures of a Lucinda's breakfast. Oh, and I found out officially that The Idyllist won some pageant in Beloit, which sadly knocks her down in my estimation. Pageant girls. Hopefully she was geeking it up on the side to compensate.

There was a Freshman Studies lecture, and I talked with this girl from my Calc class who was being unusually friendly, but didn't sit near her because she's consorted with The Vain Man in the past and I didn't want to have to sit next to him, lest I do something rash.

So it was off to the balcony, where the cool kids, sit, or so I thought. The only person I knew in the balcony at that point was Miguel Sanchez, who'd obviously gone up there to be alone, but I sat with him anyways and soon Greg, Nick-From-Next-Door, The D.J, and The Mustacheless Man did the same.

I shouted out Dungeon Master's name in greeting when she came in; I think the whole chapel heard me, except her. It seemed like a rebellious rejection of established social norms at the time, but it just seems juvenile now.

After the lecture we all scurried to Lucinda's for lunch. Random socialization with The Mustacheless Man is always fun; our group spent lunch mocking The D.J (who ditched us) for wearing girl's rings and other accessories.

Which brings me to now, at which point I'm taking a legitimate break after working for a few hours on the perfect introduction to my Qur'an essay. Only the introduction, but I think I've sufficiently rationalized my methods to make that look like reasonable progress.

Back to work.