March 28 2007: The Swing Of Things
It’s so very very hard trying to get back into the swing of things. Although I’m well into my fifth week of university this year, I’ve yet to hand in an assignment. Tomorrow’s 500 word piece on the Emperor Asoka, Beloved of the Gods, and the ancient Maurya empire of India will be the first due.
Under normal circumstances, if I were running under my normal middle-of-semester-three-essays-in-a-week fuel, this essay would have been started, completed, and printed in half an hour.
Now, two hours after I first sat down in front of the computer, I’m staring blankly at a title page, four footnotes, four entries into the bibliography, and a grand total of 151 words in the actual body of the essay (though there’s 220 words in the document altogether). At this rate, I’ll be completed by midnight.
You’d think that an experienced third-year university student would find it easier to tear herself away from playing Bejeweled. Apparently not. Woe.
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Bejeweled ftw!
Jordie on March 28 2007 #
Wow, I don’t know how you’d do that in such a short amount of time. Half an hour? Not I, I tend to take forever to write anything ( even a blog post or comment ), so I envy lol. Good luck with your assignments!
Faith Bowie on March 28 2007 #
Can’t you just write 500 words on Bejeweled Tactics, and swear that didn’t understand what the course was about when you chose it?
They’d understand.
Doran on March 29 2007 #
I could write a whole book on Bejeweled Tactics!
Well, er, not really.
Jordie on March 29 2007 #
My version of your Bejeweled is pinball. It’s too addictive… :P
Amber on March 29 2007 #
I like minesweeper.
Some things are just hard to write about… I’m not looking forward to those topics when I’m in uni.
Mar on March 29 2007 #
Getting a lower wordcount than you expected is suicide-worthy I reckon. Maybe I overreact a little - but its pretty damn disappointing.
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Up ya’s! Hehe
Paddy on March 29 2007 #
I know that feeling… I’m reading Medea right now and I’m reading it at a snail’s pace. Tsk tsk And that happens to me, too, when I’m writing.
Oh noooo! Why did you have a link to Bejeweled? And why did I click on it??
Damnit. From a projected 5 hours, my ZZZs time has been cut down to 3. LOL.
Felisa on March 29 2007 #