Sunday, November 28, 2004
writing term papers always tear a huge chunk out of me. Though basically the same as writing a response paper, its still a piece of pain in the ass task that totally takes the interest of the subject outta me. Though I set aside today to "work on" the Sov history term paper, I could place no hope in actually finishing the damn thing by today, even though it was merely 6 pages, and my first term paper was a 16 page monster for geog in the summer.
i guess the starting part is hard, and analogous to climbing the energy hill during the activation phase of a chemical reaction. Today it was worse because I had a headache and no coffee to kick my ass for the day (it wasn't cold enough either to stick my head outta the window). So I lay in bed for two hours and dozed for a while, with thoughts of zeitgeists and the Purges swimming in my head.. (It was said that Descartes did his introspective work this way, but hell, I ain't no Descartes). Then I finally decided to not be an ass about it, after remembering that I had a hell loads to do the following week and finally got to it. As usual, my MSN messenger was on the whole time, so the actual writing of half of the term paper (merely 3 pages) took my 4 hours, with generous portions of online conversations, musings, and randoming surfing of netstuff interupting the thought process. This was exactly what happened when I wrote that geog paper and I'm surprised how coherent it actually looked. ah well.
so now i'm taking a break blogging and I just got back from lab an am procrastinating in preparation for the next half.
back to writing this shit then.
good night!
i guess the starting part is hard, and analogous to climbing the energy hill during the activation phase of a chemical reaction. Today it was worse because I had a headache and no coffee to kick my ass for the day (it wasn't cold enough either to stick my head outta the window). So I lay in bed for two hours and dozed for a while, with thoughts of zeitgeists and the Purges swimming in my head.. (It was said that Descartes did his introspective work this way, but hell, I ain't no Descartes). Then I finally decided to not be an ass about it, after remembering that I had a hell loads to do the following week and finally got to it. As usual, my MSN messenger was on the whole time, so the actual writing of half of the term paper (merely 3 pages) took my 4 hours, with generous portions of online conversations, musings, and randoming surfing of netstuff interupting the thought process. This was exactly what happened when I wrote that geog paper and I'm surprised how coherent it actually looked. ah well.
so now i'm taking a break blogging and I just got back from lab an am procrastinating in preparation for the next half.
back to writing this shit then.
good night!
