You know...

You know you've been working too long on your term paper when...

~ Your fingers are so sore from typing that it hurts to type in your dreams.

~ You start speaking in academic language in normal conversation

(this actually sounds creepy, if you think about it:  "Hmm...One must understand that the speaker feels hungry.  Nothing could be further from the truth than to say that when one is hungry, they are completely satisfied.  Therefore..."  You get the picture :-P )

~ Syntax for you, of sentences, no longer normal is.  Read, have you, much english old.

(sounds like yoda, does it not?  Reason for this, there is.  Borrowed from Chaucer, did George Lucas, and from Spencer, their syntax he did emulate)

~ You begin to notice threads of arguments that fit into your paper as you watch movies.  You wonder if you could cite that Frank Capra movie as a secondary source.

~ You begin to hear the mockingbird across the street start making frog sounds.

Other symptoms may include, irritability, nausea, a hot lap from holding a laptop computer on it for hours on end, inexplicable urges to defenestrate obstreperous authors, and extreme cases of procrastination.

Term Paper:

Use only as directed.

:-)