Break from homework

If you should ever find yourself in the year 2002 and in possession of a spiral-bound handbook on the MLA format, for God's sake, don't get rid of it. Even if, after graduating college three years later, you swear up and down that you're not going to graduate school, you're not going to need MLA format anymore, you're not even sure you want to pursue a career in writing now so why should you hold onto this book...don't get rid of the handbook.

Because otherwise you will find yourself in 2011, buying a fresh copy of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition, in order to finish an assignment for your Research for Writers class, which is part of your Masters in Liberal Arts graduate program, and dammit, you can't expect to rely on the Purdue OWL website all the time, can you? (No, you can't).

Somewhere, a hoarder is smirking in misplaced, self-righteous triumph before tripping over a pile of grocery receipts from 1967.