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I've spent this summer on fellowship at a university, doing research in a lab, and one of the qualifications for, you know, getting paid is to produce a final research paper. And it's due on Thursday. You know how far I've gotten?
The title.
Apparently, grad school left me with a crippling inability to write a paper if I'm not writing it four hours before I have to turn it in.
And it's not like I'm busy or anything -- obviously, I have time to post to LJ while I'm at work and therefore should be working on constructive things. This is actually time that's supposed to be allocated for working on my final paper. Although my professor did give me a list of stuff to do for this week, but some of it I can't actually do until I get home and have a computer with admin access. So, paper, right?
It doesn't help that I really, desperately don't want to write this thing anyway. Because it feels like a lot of work and the guidelines they gave us were really sketchy; they gave us a list of sections to include and that's it. Also, I'm getting the feeling that they want us to write somewhere between fifteen and twenty pages and I... just don't want to. I'm a big fan of the five page scientific paper. Some of that is because I suck at writing in technical jargon, and the rest of it is I feel like I don't have all that much to say.
Which is all stupid, by the way, because it's not even like this is a graded thing. It's for a fellowship. But I suppose they could dock my paycheck if they felt like I blew it off, maybe, and that's nowhere near a risk I'm willing to take.
What all of this boils down to is the following:
-- Thanks for the distraction, LiveJournal
-- I've spent the last four hours playing solitaire for no good reason
-- I'm going to wind up writing this at four in the morning on Thursday, aren't I?