new highlighters

when you are a student, there is something special about breaking into a new package of highlighters. The old ones faded slowly, so much so that you barely even noticed until one day they just didn't light up the page the way they used to. So, you go out hunting for you favorite brand of highlightre, which is vastly superior to all other ones but somehow only makes it on 20% of the shelvs. When you finally find them and glide the felt-tip across a page for the first time, everything runs so smooth and the words jump off the page with a new-found glee that you actually enjoy highlighting so much, the next thing you know, you've decided that the whole page is extra important. Then you turn to the next page and reality hits that you still have 29 more pages to go, and today is only Thursday.