not exactly panicing but certainly not zen

having spent most of yesterday setting up work on a research project i now have a day and a half to write a 4000 word paper and a 3000 word assignment. i've pretty well given up on the idea of doing any preparation re the two presentations i have to do cause i figure that they'll just have to be all spontaneous. and usually i present pretty well when i am sleep deprived, jet lagged, and ever so high on chocolate. so i'm not exactly relaxed any more, but i am not exactly freaked yet. i think by the end of the day i'll have a much clearer picturer of whether i will be a nervous wreck by saturday or just a standard kind of mother-leaving-town wreck.