Missing Homework

I am a complete moron. It is nearly midnight, and about an hour ago I realized I have homework due tomorrow that I haven't even started. So when I arrived home, I putzed around for about 20 minutes, and then decided to get to it. I opened my folder. It wasn't in there. I looked in another folder. Not there either. The next thing I know, I'm looking through piles of books that I haven't touched in at least a month, thinking it might be there. Nope.

What the hell is wrong with me? I don't lose things. I may not be the tidiest person on earth, but I do keep track of things and remember where they are most of the time. Especially if they are important. But for some reason, the homework from this one particular class almost always ends up in some black hole (probably with my socks). I just don't get it. I'm supposed to be a grad student for god's sake. This is stuff that happens in the sixth grade.

So I'm wondering if I'll be able to fake it tomorrow, since the prof is a bit slack on collecting the homework. Maybe I can just make something up on the fly. I hate that I'm trying this crap. I'm old enough to know better. But I have no idea for the life of me where those two pieces of paper could be. I've even travelled back to last week in my head to see where and when I last had them. They were in my backpack. Everything else he gave us is here. But the important pages are mysteriously gone. Could there be a mischevious elf hiding these things from me? Is it my own wish to fail in school? Am I sabotaging myself?