Am I alone on this? It has been a little more than 8 years since I have finished college, and a little more than 12 years since I finished high school and I still have small moments of panic in which I think I forgot homework.
It usually happens at night, right before I drift off to bed. I start doing a mental check list of what I am suppose to do the next day. My mind automatically takes me to the classroom and handing off homework that I did not finish. This thought usually jolts me every so slightly enough, that I am no longer drifting to sleep. I'm just awake.
The weird part is that I never forgot any homework or special tests in high school or college. I was always prepared. Was the homework perfect? Of course not. But at least it was never late.
I take it back. I wasn't always prepared. In fact, the one time that I can remember not being prepared is probably why I still have anxieties about not completing homework to this day. I was in third grade, and I had to build a diorama of the Little House on the Prairie. For some reason I forgot about it, until late at night. I told my mom at bedtime that I forgot. Needless to say, the next morning I might have found a completed diorama. The homework fairies were good to me. Maybe I should start believing in fairies again.
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I remember that....makeshift stuff mainly out of toilet paper roll, matches, and fabric....trying to make it look like a third grader did it. Only, I thought I remembered you helping? Oh well, I do remember it was last minute.
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