Well, as of yesterday I was on track with the Cause and Effect research paper, but I am utterly behind right now. I feel like a complete idiot because yesterday as I had finished my second paragraph I went to close the document and did so without saving. For over an hour I searched for my work but it was gone forever. I wanted to quit, seriously. So, I am furiously trying to remember what I had previously written and catch up with the parts of the paper that I hadn’t yet written. If I am completely honest with myself, I have to admit that what I had written wasn’t my greatest work ever. I’m just going to tell myself that God got rid of the draft because it was awful and He knew that I could write better. I wish He would have done so about a week ago, but being pessimistic isn’t going to help me now. My plan is to finish the first draft by Wednesday and then start going back over it and writing draft 2. Conference on Thursday and Peer Review on Friday should help me realize what I need to fix over the weekend.
When this happened, I was feeling both incredibly angry at myself for deleting all of my work and seriously worried about whether or not I was going to finish everything in a single week. If this had happened to me during first semester I would have never finished with a product of the quality that I did. I was able to turn a complete disaster into an A-worthy paper. God works in mysterious ways!