Its- A Crisis

After 3 consecutive days of sleepless nights accompanied by the nervous tapping of the keys on my laptop that was laced with uncertainty, I've finally got my paper done and over with.

I tried very hard not to be half-assed about it or appear half-ass in anyway that would reveal itself openly. It was the best product my slow-processing brain cells could come up with at this moment so I can't complain. Considering I have to write a paper on my grammar pet-peeve (yes, I didn't know I should have one) or grammar mis-usage and justify for or against it, this was a battle I knew from the start that would cost a lot of brain-cell casualties.

The hardest part of the whole process is always the beginning. I spent 1 day deciding on what to write. Being a rather indecisive person that I am when it comes to writing something, this is the best record so far. I have fared worse. The whole day was all about "should I ","Maybe yes maybe not" and "how about". No kiddin. I was talking to myself all the time.

First passive voice and active voice seem like a lot fun to write but the tense aspect made me change my mind. If there's anything I could avoid talking about, it would be TENSES. Then comes the modals. Come to think of it, I could have written about modals. Modals are fun and not mind-boggling as the tenses but I just couldn't seem to find an interesting enough idea about modals to start an argument.

And so I came upon the possessives. Great! Seems like a wonderful idea but there are so many things to talk about the possessives. [Irregular Plural nouns possessive, compound noun possessive, the singular noun ending with -s possessive..)However, all that ideas would possibly make my essay turn out like a bowl of salad.

No focus in anything is NEVER good. That's the golden rule I have learned from my favourite teacher, Mr.Lim. And thus, I embarked on a rough journey onto the realm of the "its", "it's" and the abuse of the apostrophe.

A cool comic that would have sum up what I wanted to say instead of a 500-word essay.

After I have handed in my assignment, I have wondered if the content is what my Professor was asking for; if my writing style would pass for her request of a pseudo-formal format; if I actually knew what I had just written....

Set those troubling thoughts aside, I secretly pray and hope that if all else fail, my ingenious (pardon my egoistic adjective) title would make up for all that is lost. After all, it's the best title I've come up in years for an essay. And she did say," "Its-A crisis" Oh, I love the title already." when I handed my assignment which caused a little spark of hope to boost my flickering confidence. Fingers crossed!