Well, I'm cactish.
Essay time!
These posts are boring, I realize. But they either help me work or provide a distraction that at least allows me to remain focused on the fact that I am writing an essay.
7:29 p.m. - Outline is 171 words. I am concerned. The final essay should be close to 1500. Yikes. I have already eaten much of my survival-chocolate.
7:36 p.m. - For my last essay, I was starting the actual writing of it by 8:40-ish. I'm an hour ahead. However, this one has to be a lot longer and I have a waaay shorter outline. But, I also don't have to work tomorrow. So... it's sort of okay! I have to harness that "sort of okay!" feeling.
7:43 p.m. - I've written two not-very-good sentences. I will now utilize the telephone-machine to beg attention.
7:48 p.m. - I just never learn!! Telephone conversations can only upset me.
7:56 p.m. - The introductory paragraph is 99 words... it may need another sentence.
8:04 p.m. - The introductory paragraph is now 149 words. I'm pleasantly surprised.
8:19 p.m. - The second paragraph has been written in super-outline form: For each section of the paragraph, I write in brackets an approximation of what I'm going to say, to get a complete picture of what the paragraph will do without actually having written it yet. I usually write the entire essay in this format first (or as half this, half actual writing) and then go back and replace each set of brackets with actual writing, one at a time in no particular order. I like to write the entire essay at once like that. It's sort of like having a rough copy! ... without the actual complete benefits of that "editing" stage I consistently skip.
8:39 p.m. - Third paragraph is written in super-outline form!
8:42 p.m. - Regarding the telephone-machine: I still have not learned.
8:47 p.m. - Fourth paragraph is semi-written in super-outline form... it's tremendously bad, but I'm leaving it like that because I don't like it.
8:50 p.m. - It's 488 words. That's like a third done! Although I do have to rewrite most of those words. Stiiill! This time last essay I had two sentences written. But *my gosh*, I have like no motivation to write this bitch.
8:47 p.m. - Facebook is such a waste of time! Such *my* waste of time.
9:04 p.m. - Fifth paragraph is semi-written in super-outline form. Again, tremendously bad. Less tremendously, though.
9:05 p.m. - I've really only been working for like an hour. This feels a little bit too easy. I hope that doesn't mean it's going to suck.
9:20 p.m. - Telephone: still the bane of my existence!
9:29 p.m. - Concluding paragraph is very tremendously badly semi-written in super-outline form. Laundry time!
9:40 p.m. - Laundry is so much easier to do when it functions as a distraction from something else I don't want to do!
9:44 p.m. - The situation now, essentially, is that I have the entire thing written in super-outline form, and I'm stuck there. So I'm taking an undeserved break!
9:49 p.m. - The weird thing is that I feel like I'm pretty much done because I know what I'm writing about, but I also feel like I haven't gotten anything done... AT the SAME time! As long as I'm not working, I should do dishes and see if we have apples.
9:58 p.m. - Today's lesson about mouldy applesauce: DON'T LET IT HAPPEN! There isn't enough soap in the world to clean me now.
10:43 p.m. - I've put in another load of laundry, had a fruitless phone-conversation and made exactly No progress on essay. I am hallucinating movement, though. Just a very little bit at the corners of my eyes.
11:06 p.m. - Now I've done some dishes. I have not worked on essay for approximately 1.5 hours. But it'll be okay!
11:28 p.m. - I have replaced a few super-outline sentences with real sentences. It is time now for more laundry.
12:03 a.m. - Laundry is in, essay has been turned real a little bit... I'm making very, very slow progress!
12:52 a.m. - Wasting so much time! It looks like maybe I'll go to bed soon. Except that I have to wait for laundry to finish. So that's annoying.
1:04 a.m. - Final load of laundry is in the dryer (drier?). Plan: work efficiently until it is done. Realistically: get hardly anything accomplished, fall asleep, wake up in the morning and panic-write.
1:06 a.m. - New plan: Sleep for an hour, go get laundry, make new plan. Chocolate is delicious. Maybe I'll function better once this Diet Coke is in me.
1:18 a.m. - I need to stop wasting time. Sleep is *not* a waste of time. I will sleep.
9:03 a.m. - Well that wasn't supposed to happen. But it'll be okay, because I'm so well *rested*, and if I don't finish it by the time class starts, I will at least be able to go in and say "It will be finished in a matter of hours" and possibly be given until the end of the day.
10:07 a.m. - Making slow progress. I've cleaned up about half of my third paragraph.
11:03 a.m. - Fourth paragraph is pretty much done nicely! Time for Red Bull.
11:33 a.m. - Yeesh. This is a long essay. It's 1428 words at this point, and I still need to add to the second paragraph and write the conclusion in real words.
11:58 a.m. - I'm pretty much done! I'm at the re-reading and making-sure-I've-cited-everything-properly stage. It is 1471 words.
12:10 p.m. - Yeah... it's done. Forget editing, I want it out of my life.
These posts are boring, I realize. But they either help me work or provide a distraction that at least allows me to remain focused on the fact that I am writing an essay.
7:29 p.m. - Outline is 171 words. I am concerned. The final essay should be close to 1500. Yikes. I have already eaten much of my survival-chocolate.
7:36 p.m. - For my last essay, I was starting the actual writing of it by 8:40-ish. I'm an hour ahead. However, this one has to be a lot longer and I have a waaay shorter outline. But, I also don't have to work tomorrow. So... it's sort of okay! I have to harness that "sort of okay!" feeling.
7:43 p.m. - I've written two not-very-good sentences. I will now utilize the telephone-machine to beg attention.
7:48 p.m. - I just never learn!! Telephone conversations can only upset me.
7:56 p.m. - The introductory paragraph is 99 words... it may need another sentence.
8:04 p.m. - The introductory paragraph is now 149 words. I'm pleasantly surprised.
8:19 p.m. - The second paragraph has been written in super-outline form: For each section of the paragraph, I write in brackets an approximation of what I'm going to say, to get a complete picture of what the paragraph will do without actually having written it yet. I usually write the entire essay in this format first (or as half this, half actual writing) and then go back and replace each set of brackets with actual writing, one at a time in no particular order. I like to write the entire essay at once like that. It's sort of like having a rough copy! ... without the actual complete benefits of that "editing" stage I consistently skip.
8:39 p.m. - Third paragraph is written in super-outline form!
8:42 p.m. - Regarding the telephone-machine: I still have not learned.
8:47 p.m. - Fourth paragraph is semi-written in super-outline form... it's tremendously bad, but I'm leaving it like that because I don't like it.
8:50 p.m. - It's 488 words. That's like a third done! Although I do have to rewrite most of those words. Stiiill! This time last essay I had two sentences written. But *my gosh*, I have like no motivation to write this bitch.
8:47 p.m. - Facebook is such a waste of time! Such *my* waste of time.
9:04 p.m. - Fifth paragraph is semi-written in super-outline form. Again, tremendously bad. Less tremendously, though.
9:05 p.m. - I've really only been working for like an hour. This feels a little bit too easy. I hope that doesn't mean it's going to suck.
9:20 p.m. - Telephone: still the bane of my existence!
9:29 p.m. - Concluding paragraph is very tremendously badly semi-written in super-outline form. Laundry time!
9:40 p.m. - Laundry is so much easier to do when it functions as a distraction from something else I don't want to do!
9:44 p.m. - The situation now, essentially, is that I have the entire thing written in super-outline form, and I'm stuck there. So I'm taking an undeserved break!
9:49 p.m. - The weird thing is that I feel like I'm pretty much done because I know what I'm writing about, but I also feel like I haven't gotten anything done... AT the SAME time! As long as I'm not working, I should do dishes and see if we have apples.
9:58 p.m. - Today's lesson about mouldy applesauce: DON'T LET IT HAPPEN! There isn't enough soap in the world to clean me now.
10:43 p.m. - I've put in another load of laundry, had a fruitless phone-conversation and made exactly No progress on essay. I am hallucinating movement, though. Just a very little bit at the corners of my eyes.
11:06 p.m. - Now I've done some dishes. I have not worked on essay for approximately 1.5 hours. But it'll be okay!
11:28 p.m. - I have replaced a few super-outline sentences with real sentences. It is time now for more laundry.
12:03 a.m. - Laundry is in, essay has been turned real a little bit... I'm making very, very slow progress!
12:52 a.m. - Wasting so much time! It looks like maybe I'll go to bed soon. Except that I have to wait for laundry to finish. So that's annoying.
1:04 a.m. - Final load of laundry is in the dryer (drier?). Plan: work efficiently until it is done. Realistically: get hardly anything accomplished, fall asleep, wake up in the morning and panic-write.
1:06 a.m. - New plan: Sleep for an hour, go get laundry, make new plan. Chocolate is delicious. Maybe I'll function better once this Diet Coke is in me.
1:18 a.m. - I need to stop wasting time. Sleep is *not* a waste of time. I will sleep.
9:03 a.m. - Well that wasn't supposed to happen. But it'll be okay, because I'm so well *rested*, and if I don't finish it by the time class starts, I will at least be able to go in and say "It will be finished in a matter of hours" and possibly be given until the end of the day.
10:07 a.m. - Making slow progress. I've cleaned up about half of my third paragraph.
11:03 a.m. - Fourth paragraph is pretty much done nicely! Time for Red Bull.
11:33 a.m. - Yeesh. This is a long essay. It's 1428 words at this point, and I still need to add to the second paragraph and write the conclusion in real words.
11:58 a.m. - I'm pretty much done! I'm at the re-reading and making-sure-I've-cited-everything-properly stage. It is 1471 words.
12:10 p.m. - Yeah... it's done. Forget editing, I want it out of my life.