I still have no desire

pooh8402

to read the research article I've chosen to write my extremely short paper (1 page, double spaced) about that's due tomorrow. yea, haven't even read it.

and I'm drunk as a skunk.

dear Lord.

Koopa17

Perhaps you'll be writing that paper in the morning...hopefully not while nursing a hangover

pooh8402

since it's not technically due until 1 pm, I would say you're right. but...

a) I have a morning class

b) I'm NOT morning person. I'm more likely to study/write/drink through the night rather than wake up early *shudder* to accomplish something.

a former boss and hall director of mine dedicated a song to me in college: Phill Pritchett's "Drink When I Think." hahahaha

thesuninherhead

This is what I always do when I have something that is easy to do. It took me two years to submit a 10 page research paper I had to write to finish a grad certificate I did recently. TWO YEARS. Not because it was difficult, but because it was far too simple and myself and a friend who did it both kept putting it off. 

 

Do it in the morning- I'm sure you'll be fine. A page = maybe half an hour's work, if you're going slow! Especially if you get to use APA format (aka double spacing!).

mocha beans

I'm the same way.  Give me a huge paper or project, I'll get moving on it and have it done early.  Short little paper, I'll put it off to the exact last minute because it just seems too easy.  Sometimes that's backfired on me though.

pooh8402

yep, APA formatting.

it's not the writing that will be the difficult part. once I sit down and actually write, I write VERY quickly. it's the researching and organizing my thoughts that I agonize over. plus, this subject is REALLY boring to me--cultural competency in nursing. bleh.

temerityjane

Dude, I can't even order McDonald's at the drive through in less than what would amount to a page of typed text.

Fool Proof Plan:

1. Print out article before you go to sleep, set it on top of the closed toilet.

2. Pick it up and read it in the morning, while you shower. Seriously, stand in the water and read it. Where else are you going to go?

3. Mentally piece together article while you shampoo, etc.

4. Exit shower, type in towel.

5. Dress.

6. Profit.

thesuninherhead

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_still-desire?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:f4eea8e4-a93a-40c2-a98b-c94b816ca5ecPost:4e360179-005d-4163-8d66-1d754ab42913">Re: I still have no desire</a>:
[QUOTE] 2. Pick it up and read it in the morning, while you shower. Seriously, stand in the water and read it. Where else are you going to go? 
<p>Posted by temerityjane[/QUOTE]</p><p> </p><p>Do you guys have waterproof paper in the states now?  :P</p><p> </p><p>I always thought a really awesome idea would be to develop some sort of book holder that holds the book at reading distance but out of the water, and turns pages for you while you shower... damn those Australian water restrictions!</p>

pooh8402

WAIT, what about this????

Now this is a story
All about how my job
Got twisted upside down
And I'd like to take a minute... See More
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the nurse
of cultural care.

In west college station,
Grad and trained,
In the clinic where I spent most of my days.
Cleaning out, aiding, healing all cool,
And shooting some 'jections inside of some fools.
When a couple of guys, they weren't feelin' no good,
Started bringin' culture to my unit's hood.
I made a ster-o-type and my boss got scared,
And said "You're taking a class to make you more aware!"

I whistled for a teach' and when he came near,
ID tag said "PRIDE" and had peace sign in ear.
If anything, I could say that this dude was rare,
But I thought, nah forget it, teach me to care!

I. pulled. up to a bed about seven or eight,
I yelled to the patient, "Yo, discriminate ya lata!"
Looked at his vitals, and I finally cared,
To make more assumptions, I wouldn't dare!

temerityjane

I always read in the shower. I don't know why. I have for as long as I can remember. Well, except for a phase in middle school where my bus came before 7am and I used to go to sleep in the shower. You know how when the water is running at first, you stick your hand under to make sure it's a good temperature? I even dry off my hand after that so my book doesn't get wet handprints on it. I just stand with the water hitting my back and the book held out in front of me.

Maybe... maybe it's just me. But I bet you could totally read a short article in the shower if you had to, even if it got kind of damp.

pooh8402

ahhh, finished. night yall.

thesuninherhead

night!

lilgina64

please please please please please tell me you passed that in. Because if you did, you are the greatest person ever. that is all.