Done!

Well, I'll be doing edits tomorrow, but other than that, my last (and by far most demanding) paper is done. It certainly took enough time. Having the paper (and accompanying presentation) in place of an exam did not mean two hours of free time. It meant mercy.

I remember in elementary school being fascinated with postscripts. They always taught us how to write a letter sometime... I want to say near one of the breaks, either Christmas break or summer break (school was more timeless then, and it's pretty far back in time). Anyway, there was always the top with the name and the address. Then space, and then Dear Mr. Johnson, and then the indention which meant you started writing your body under the a in Dear. Then the body. Then some sort of farewell, normally "Sincerely," then the name. Then, after you'd written all of that magical letter which you would send to the teacher for a grade, there was a postscript. If there had been something that you'd forgotten to write in the letter and you didn't want to have to rewrite it, that was the place to do so. Then there was the post-postscript, if you had worked too hastily there too.

Of course they weren't really referred to like that, so much as it was just known that they could occasionally exist. Elusive beasts that some person would put at the end of their letter in haste. We never really had need of one. It was a novelty. We put it there because it was a funny thing. A P.P.S. was funny due to its redundancy. And a P.P.P.S. ... well, one could hypothesize about its existence; certainly the book said nothing, but if you're allowed to go as far as P.P.S. ... surely three can't be that big of a crowd?

If I remember right, writing letters isn't really a taught skill anymore. Certainly I don't adopt all of the forms that come with writing letters. Most of the time, I write e-mails anyway. It's more fluid, and though I try to be proper in an official capacity, I've seen professionals use it without any distinguishing formal characteristics. I wonder if they teach that at any level of school.

I miss writing paper letters sometimes. Even if the other person had to have patience with my handwriting.