2 DAYS and 11 DAYS.

There’s excitement and then there’s despair. There comes a time in your life when you’re up in the middle of the night watching youtube videos of Super Cows, yes, super body-builder cows, when you realize that you’re actually feeling a little guilty despite all that awe from the super cows. Yes, guilty because I spent the whole day not doing what I intended to do; which was to complete my term paper. So it’s due in 11 days. That’s the despair part. But where’s the excitement, you ask? Well, I am officially getting my iPad2 in TWO DAYS. So that’s the excitement part. But then when I get that iPad, I’ll only have nine days left. And that’s the despair. You get my dilemma??

Two days. It can feel like forever and it can be short. Let me give you a relative estimate of what two days might feel like…

If you ran out of water starting from now, you will die in roughly two days. It will take you about two days straight with no sleep to listen to the entire collection of Prince’s discography. That might feel like an eternity. 48 hours is also the time it roughly takes to eat 411 BigMacs. It takes the fastest and strongest sperm two days to get to the egg, providing that there IS an egg. Or there IS a passage for them to swim up to. 

Now 11 days. Eleven days may seem far, but it can also be extremely short. Here’s a quick comparison…

Many diet pills scream a slogan along the lines of “10 pounds in 10 days”. Given a whole extra day, you could be a “whole new you” minus one pound. Five million, three hundred and ninety thousand. That’s the estimated number of babies that will be born in the coming 11 days. WOAH. In 11 days, you could have travelled 8% of the distance to Mars. Not bad..not bad at all.

So that’s my dilemma. I’m super excited about my ipad in two days, but also super dreading the due date in 11 days.

ps. this is the first result that came back after I googled “Prince”. Enjoy your two day’s worth of Prince discography.