buddhist image veneration (5.17.07)

hello, friends. tonight when i get home (at midnight) i realized that i had forgotten to write a paper for my buddhism class. grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!! so, i sit down at 12:30 and look through my books to figure out why the buddha is "worshipped." and here it is, almost 2 hours later, and i still don't have a freakin' clue! so, i'm going to bed and i'll write the paper in the morning. i hate this class anyways. if i didn't have to have 16 hrs. this quarter for scholarship reasons, i never would've taken it. hmph!