Arg.

Arg. I just finished my story of a carbon atom, which took forever to write and is pretty satirical. Then I looked at the worksheet that actually explains the assignment. Guess what? You're supposed to actually demonstrate the carbon cycle in your paper, not write about an atom that floats through deep space to 4 billion years, get stuck in Mars' crust for 2 billion more years, then gets blown up in a nuclear fission lab. Aren't I a clever little student?