Free at last
Deadline is dead dead dead. I have stamped all over it so hard it is not even dust. It is GONE.
And now I sleep.
When I wake up there’ll be, like, real content.
Posted by Justine at 10:35, 20 December 2007 under Excuses, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Writing goals & milestones | 25 Comments »

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Ally Says:
WHOO! dead deadline! ergh.. today is my second day home from school and i got woken up from the fedex lady.. when i signed the thing i dont even know what i wrote. but its my ipod for christmas
December 20th, 2007 at 10:37 AM
Steve Buchheit Says:
yeah! Congrats. Sleep the sleep of angels.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:55 AM
anon Says:
Congratulations. Now write the next one!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:56 AM
janet Says:
woo hoo! congratulations! hope you had a good sleep.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:19 PM
hillary! Says:
Was this the first draft? I can’t remember. Sleep is a good thing.
Why is the FedEx lady coming to your house so early Ally?
I hate French. I fail at speaking French. But I ace it in the pronunciation department.
I’m gonna go knot and purl now.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:19 PM
jelly-wa Says:
whats pulcritudinate?
yay for u!
December 20th, 2007 at 12:24 PM
Micole Says:
Yay!
December 20th, 2007 at 12:38 PM
margo Says:
Onyer, Justine! Sleep well and come back to the land of the living soon.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:04 PM
Rebecca Says:
woohoo! yay! cheers! yeahhhh!
December 20th, 2007 at 2:07 PM
Patrick, The Space Lord Says:
they took your life, but they could not take your blog
in the name of deadlines
December 20th, 2007 at 3:08 PM
marrije Says:
oooh, that is excellent news, well done, congratulations.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:24 PM
dragonfly Says:
yay yay yay!!
now sleep and breathe and live with no stress. or much less stress, anyway.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:50 PM
Jez Says:
congrats on destroying that deadline!
December 20th, 2007 at 3:56 PM
hereandnow Says:
whee! congratulations.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:10 PM
Malcolm Tredinnick Says:
Congratulations! That has to feel good. Did you at least have time to notice we beat New Zealand (in the cricket)?
December 20th, 2007 at 7:33 PM
Carrie Says:
yay for deadlines being done! yay for sleep!
December 20th, 2007 at 9:50 PM
capt. cockatiel Says:
Awesome! n_n Yay for killing the deadline!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:14 PM
Dawn Says:
YAY!!!! Go Justine!!
December 21st, 2007 at 4:52 AM
Tim Says:
woo-hoo!!
December 21st, 2007 at 9:25 AM
kim Says:
go out and dance in the streets singing celllllllll-e-brate good times, come on!!!!!!
December 21st, 2007 at 11:09 AM
kim Says:
i am so alone!!!!!!!!!!!
December 21st, 2007 at 3:54 PM
emily Says:
go you!!!!!!!!
that is truly awesome. deadlines should die.
in other news, yaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy! i got my new ipod nano yesterday. it’s awesome.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:46 PM
kim Says:
for biology i have to do a report on smallpox and i was reading a demon in the freezer and it was saying that almost every animal has their own pox. there is evena quokkapox!!! :0
December 21st, 2007 at 6:03 PM
Kenina-chan Says:
party!!!
December 21st, 2007 at 7:01 PM
kim Says:
this is one long nap justine!
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 PM