Dear Tom Paine,

This is actually the title of my paper. 

Strangely, I am quite enjoying writing this paper.  However, my fear is this: in an attempt to attack the prompt in a creative manner, I have adopted a haughty and saucy disposition with which to approach contemporary American labor struggles, and while this is useful, I think I have gotten carried away in the character.  I'm having too much fun writing the monologue of this person who thinks the world of Thomas Paine, and I might be forgetting to include the factual elements for which this paper was assigned.  Will this be valuable? Will my sass exemplify the tone that Paine himself utilized? I know not where to stop.  I cannot hold back.  (I've also taken to parading about the house in my red cape (scarf) and claiming myself to be brilliant.  I am brilliant.  That's not the point.)  I have one page left until I have met the length requirement for the assignment, but I fear that it will be lacking in substance, but full of style. 

A solution! Quote Common Sense and bring it all back to the eighteenth century. 

I'm also at that point in writing where I "command + S" all the time.  It means I start trying to save pages on the Internet.  (My typing has gotten fun and flowery this evening.)  At some point I also need to go to bed. 


love,
hannah