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I hit 15060 words last night :D So in all I wrote almost 5000 words yesterday. I hope I can keep that pace up today! To that end, I'm bringing my laptop with me, even though I usually don't on Tuesdays. (I'm sure that's not the real reason why; it's just that it's the only thing I can remember to relate to it. The real reason probably has something to do with printing and not having a spare folder, or something like that.)

Informative speeches start today. I'm not going until next week, which is fortunate, since I haven't actually started my speech yet. I mean, I'm still not even sure what I'm doing it on yet. I need to head to the speech lab sometime, partly to get hours and partly to hash out this whole... thing. If that means I spend two hours doing stats and two hours in the lab tomorrow, then that's what it means (and then I'll have eight hours, and only need six more). I'm not doing too good with this whole lab thing, haha!

I did just barely manage to get my English homework done properly - originally I was just going to do it in the library, but then I decided to check if it needed to be typed and yeah, it did, so I did it an hour ago. I still have to print it, but... eh. Honestly I don't know how good this latest essay is going to turn out to be; I literally decided on a topic, wrote an introduction, and threw together an outline in about twenty minutes. I don't even know what sources I'm going to use yet, which is half the assignment right there (not the one that's due today, but rather the essay itself).  Hopefully nobody will notice, or at the very least, nobody will care. And if not, well... that's my own bad luck, then, I suppose. (Due to procrastinating, obviously. All the more reason for me to keep ahead on my word count, clearly; I'll probably spend all of tomorrow and all of Monday doing other things. /: )

I am having a toasted cheese sandwich for breakfast. It is kind of like a grilled cheese sandwich, except that it is made in a toaster oven and is therefore infinitely lazier (and probably healthier, but that buttery taste is so good...!). I wanted bagels, really, but there is no time for bagels, so I had to improvise.

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Oddly enough, there is no strong, reliable wireless signal in the library. I suppose I should simply be content that there's a working one, and leave it at that.

Today only four people in my speech class who were scheduled to speak today actually showed up, so we got to leave half an hour early. :D As I sat listening to the speeches that were presented, I got another of those magic inspiration strikes and figured out exactly which topic I was going to do my speech on, as my introduction practically wrote itself in my head. (As I write this, the internet keeps glitching out. It is intensely annoying.) I have only two concerns about the topic I'm going with: first, that I can't cover everything I want to cover, or I'll never be within the time limit, and second, that I can't tell any disbelievers to just gtfo, which was part of what wrote itself in my head.

I'm not even kidding. It went, "On July 20, 1969, millions of Americans sat glued to their televisions, entranced, watching as history was made with the words, 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm speaking, of course, of the Apollo 11 mission, the historic event in which mankind first set foot on the moon. Some people believe it was a hoax, a government conspiracy, and if you're one of those people, then you can just get out, right now. Seriously. I'll wait."

Other things in my mental draft that will certainly not make it into the final speech include much of the questionable language that inevitably comes up when I talk on something I'm so passionate about, and the fact that I spent all my time watching NASA documentaries as the human hosepipe (although that second one arguably illustrates quite nicely the fact that I absolutely care a lot about this topic.)

I'm debating on what kind of aids I should use. I know there's a video on Youtube of the television footage, but part of me wants to just... talk, and hope that my evident passion and apparent storytelling ability invoke all the interest I need. I'm sure I can, I just don't know if it's the best idea.

I actually forgot that I had this icon, but I was hoping that it was still here. It's certainly relevant, haha.