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The universe is just too stupid for me to bear it sometimes.
Anyways I don't know the girl on sight, so chances are I'm going to end up killed before I get to her.
I don't even have one full page of this paper done. I am floundering like crazy. Here I thought this would be the easy one, uh, I was completely wrong about that. I'm probably going to have to skip Logic tomorrow to finish it... and I still haven't even started my French homework, which I'm going to bomb anyway because past tenses are the devil and I have no fucking clue when to use the imperfect versus the pluperfect.
I just keep making deals with myself to keep myself from giving up. "If you finish the paper you can record a podfic." "If you get the French done you can have ice cream with lunch." "If you don't break down into tears you can make a papercraft tomorrow night." "If you survive the next two weeks you can buy something on your Amazon wish list." (it's probably going to be the Sherlock dvds. if I survive.)
And I had espresso at 10:30, so I'm not even remotely tired, but I also can't focus.
And one more time, I ask myself the same question I do every time I procrastinate myself into a corner: WHY THE FUCK DO I KEEP DOING THIS TO MYSELF?
(and one more time, I answer the same way I always do: because I am a situational idiot.)
eta: okay, I have two pages done, I'm going to attack my French for half an hour and then go to bed. If I don't finish this tomorrow... then I'll just have to own up to my own failure when I go to class.
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i have a physics lab report to write but i just want to go to sleep
Imparfait is used to denote an action in the past tense. In terms of the tense it indicates, it is interchangeable with passe compose (though those tenses are supposed to be used in different situations, which I won't get into here). The English equivalent of imparfait is "I was doing," for the verb to do. Plus-que-parfait is used to denote an action in past tense as if it had been completed by the time the story takes place, so kind of a past-past tense. It's English equivalent is "I had done," for the verb to do.
I'll keep this in mind, though. Thanks for the help!
The difference between passe compose and imparfait is that passe compose is used for "verbes d'action," -- verbs that describe an action -- while imparfait is used for "verbes d'etat" -- verbs that describe a state of being. So you'd say "J'ai mange" for "I ate," and you'd say "J'avais faim" for "I was hungry."
Plus-que-parfait, like I said above, is a tense used when a verb is not only in the past tense, but is in the past of the past, like "J'avais mange," for "I had eaten," just to give an example using the same verb as my passe compose vs imparfait explanation.