Extension-request.g

The I-didn't-finish-my-assignment-because grammar.

{
<start> 
I need an extension because <plea>  . 	
}

{
<plea>
<dubious-excuse>	
<dubious-excuse>	
<dubious-excuse>	
<dubious-excuse>	
<dubious-excuse>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  then <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  on top of that <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  as if that wasn't enough <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  then get this, <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  just then <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and,  well I a little embarassed about this, but <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  I'm sure you've heard this before, but <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  if you can believe it, <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  then, just when my mojo was getting back on its feet, <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  just then <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  right about then <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , and  and then if I recall correctly <plea>	
<dubious-excuse>  , oh, and then <plea>	
}

{
<dubious-excuse> 
my disk got erased	
my dog ate my <something>	
my roommate ate my <something>	
I didn't know I was in this class	
I thought I already graduated	
my dorm burned down	
I spent all weekend hung-over	
I had <lots-of-work>	
I had <lots-of-work>	
well, it's all a haze	
I had to go to <athletic-event>	
I had to practice for <athletic-event>	
I had to worry about <athletic-event>	
I lost a lot of money on <athletic-event>	
I forgot how to write	
all my pencils broke	
the bookstore was out of erasers	
I used up all my paper	
I had to go to this really worthwhile event	
I had to make up a lot of documentation for the Navy in a big hurry	
I got stuck in a blizzard at Tahoe	
I skied into a tree	
my karma wasn't good	
I just didn't feel like working	
it was just too nice outside	
the programming language was inadequately abstract	
I had to do laundry	
I lost my <something>	
my <something> had a problem of a private nature	
my <something> was confiscated by res-ed	
my <something> was set alight and thrown off the roof	
my <something> was enshrowded in a mysterious fog for three days and then vanished	
I had recurring dreams about my <something>	
}

{
<lots-of-work> 
<impressive-number> midterms	
<impressive-number> midterms and <impressive-number> papers	
to finish my doctoral thesis	
<impressive-number> programs in <impressive-number> different langauges	
}

{
<athletic-event> 
an alligator wrestling meet	
an intramural monster truck meet	
the Winter Olympics	
the four-square semi-finals	
}

{
<impressive-number> 
4	
7	
like, a billion	
tons of	
mega	
like, a bunch,	
}

{
<something> 
disk	
backpack	
mind	
sense of purpose	
book	
notes	
Mac	
computer	
module specification	
printout	
dreams	
motivation	
}