yeah, definitely finals season

Uh, I need an opinion. Would it be...bad...if I e-mailed my prof two days before a rough draft deadline and said that I need to change my paper topic and I won't have a rough draft because I have no fucking idea how to write the topic I said I was doing? Because there is literally not enough textual evidence for me to put this argument together, and that's even if I had an argument, which I don't. And I shouldn't have tried to do something which I don't like (new historicism) for a major paper, because I don't know how to construct it and it's hurting me badly and also have I mentioned how I don't have an argument? Or evidence? At all? And I thought I would have it up until I actually started writing the paper and I really, really don't.

(I do have an alternate topic, which I'm pretty sure I can make a fifteen-page paper out of, but I can't have a fifteen page paper by Tuesday.)