Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Everyone needs a couple minutes of break
Alright, I'm going to do my thankful list for the day while I'm writing my paper. It's currently 2:24 a.m., I have 11 hours and 36 minutes left until this puppy is due, and I have it outlined. Now to start the actual writing process. 3,000 words, here I come.
1.I'm thankful I have an outline. You have NO idea what a relief it is to get that far.
2.I'm thankful Lynnae talked to me for a bit. I have been SO INCREDIBLY LONELY these last few weeks as I have no time or energy for a social life.
3.It's 2:33 and I now have a title for my essay as well. Well... a working title anyway. I realized half of it alliterated, so I came up with some lame words to alliterate the rest, and I'll definitely have to change it before I turn it in.
4.It is now 2:52 and I have an introduction, which is 375 words long. 375 down, 2,625 more to go!
5.VERY thankful for ibuprofen, which abated the headache I've had all day. It's 3:21, though, so I'm about 1/2 an hour away from needing more.
6.Okay, I have to say a thank you to Mt. Dew for existing, and for the energy it provides, but not so much for the size those bottles come in. I'm apparently hyper sensitive to caffeine, because 24 ounces drinken (yes, Lynnae, I know drinken is not a word - no laughing at my idiolect) in a period of 2 1/2 hours (between 1:00 and 3:31, which is the current time) is making me kinda shaky. Grrr... stupid drug. I need the energy, but not the side effects. On the bright side, I'm over 800 words, and I still have 10 1/2 hours to go before it's due! Granted, I haven't even finished writing about the first of the 3 books (not even close), so I'm going to have to worry about this being too long instead of too short. Hallelujah! And here I was so worried about having to fill up 3,000 words. Alright, back to work.
7.Break time! It's now 3:57 a.m., I passed 1,000 words, and I need a real break that lasts about 10 minutes or so. I think I might go outside and run around the building or something to wake myself up. Might be able to run off some of that caffeine too.
8.I finished my discussion of 1 of the 3 books - the one I had the most to say about too! I talked about it, and I did so in 948 words. Combine that with the 375 word introduction, and the little blip I already wrote about the 2nd book, and I'm nearly half done with the word requirement! Yeah, I may have to cut this down... we're looking at a 4,000-5,000 word essay at this rate.
You know, a little, evil part of me would LOVE to write my teacher a 10,000 word essay, just so he'll have to grade it. He's always saying, "I know you're all so bright, you're just DYING to go the extra mile with your homework! Didn't you just LOVE the [5 bazillion page] reading assignment for today?!" Quite frankly, with that kind of attitude, I'd love to turn in a 30 page paper and say, "Wow, I just loved this assignment! I couldn't stop writing it! I know you're just DYING to see what I had to say! Don't you just LOVE being a teacher?! It must be so rewarding for you to have students invest so much into this topic!"
9. It's 4:37 a.m. - the man who wrote the 2nd book I am writing about is named Everett N. Dick. Now, I know Dick is technically a name, but every time I read it I have Matilda flashbacks, and think, "Moby WHAT?!?!?!"
10.5:01 a.m. and I'm still going at it. I finally hit the "Okay, too tired to think point," but that's okay because the shaky feeling wore off and I have another Mt. Dew. I also should get more ibuprofen for my head, since the last dose wore off an hour ago and I'm starting to feel it. Jeez, I haven't drugged myself so heavily since I had swine flu! 1741 words... I need another break. I'm tempted to extend "break" to 1 hour of sleep, but I really can't afford that right now. Plus I just consumed about 25 mg of caffeine (in a delicious "smooth citrus" flavor), and trying to sleep after that is a bad idea. Time for another jog around Stadium Terrace, I guess.
11. 5:30 a.m., and I broke 2,000 words. 1,000 more to go! I was averaging about 1,000 words per hour after I actually started writing the essay itself (instead of outlining, final research, etc), but I'm slowing down. Really, REALLY slowing down. It took me 1/2 an hour to write the last 250 words.
12. Another hour or so, and my mom will be up! I can call her for a brief pep talk!
13.6:32 a.m., up from a 45 minute long attempt at a nap. It failed dismally. I didn't sleep a wink, and now I'm just tired.
14. 6:58 a.m., dawn is breaking, and I finished with the 2nd book. One more book and 750 more words! I can do it! I can do it!
15. 7:16 a.m. and I have 550 words left!
16. 7:42, and not only do I only have 300 words left to write, but I'm on a roll! My brain is chugging along, and I know what I'm writing about, instead of trying to make sense of all those letters that I think just might be forming words, like I was an hour ago.
17. 7:50 and 201 words left! So close!
18. Now, at 8:02 a.m., I am thankful for irony. I finished the rough draft. I pulled up the word count. 3000? Nope!
2,999!!!!!!
Are you serious??? ONE word off? REALLY???
Well, I'm sure I can find a spot to stick a random word. I've still gotta edit it anyway. Alright, time to send it off to my amazing editor! Mommy, here comes the essay!!!
1.I'm thankful I have an outline. You have NO idea what a relief it is to get that far.
2.I'm thankful Lynnae talked to me for a bit. I have been SO INCREDIBLY LONELY these last few weeks as I have no time or energy for a social life.
3.It's 2:33 and I now have a title for my essay as well. Well... a working title anyway. I realized half of it alliterated, so I came up with some lame words to alliterate the rest, and I'll definitely have to change it before I turn it in.
4.It is now 2:52 and I have an introduction, which is 375 words long. 375 down, 2,625 more to go!
5.VERY thankful for ibuprofen, which abated the headache I've had all day. It's 3:21, though, so I'm about 1/2 an hour away from needing more.
6.Okay, I have to say a thank you to Mt. Dew for existing, and for the energy it provides, but not so much for the size those bottles come in. I'm apparently hyper sensitive to caffeine, because 24 ounces drinken (yes, Lynnae, I know drinken is not a word - no laughing at my idiolect) in a period of 2 1/2 hours (between 1:00 and 3:31, which is the current time) is making me kinda shaky. Grrr... stupid drug. I need the energy, but not the side effects. On the bright side, I'm over 800 words, and I still have 10 1/2 hours to go before it's due! Granted, I haven't even finished writing about the first of the 3 books (not even close), so I'm going to have to worry about this being too long instead of too short. Hallelujah! And here I was so worried about having to fill up 3,000 words. Alright, back to work.
7.Break time! It's now 3:57 a.m., I passed 1,000 words, and I need a real break that lasts about 10 minutes or so. I think I might go outside and run around the building or something to wake myself up. Might be able to run off some of that caffeine too.
8.I finished my discussion of 1 of the 3 books - the one I had the most to say about too! I talked about it, and I did so in 948 words. Combine that with the 375 word introduction, and the little blip I already wrote about the 2nd book, and I'm nearly half done with the word requirement! Yeah, I may have to cut this down... we're looking at a 4,000-5,000 word essay at this rate.
You know, a little, evil part of me would LOVE to write my teacher a 10,000 word essay, just so he'll have to grade it. He's always saying, "I know you're all so bright, you're just DYING to go the extra mile with your homework! Didn't you just LOVE the [5 bazillion page] reading assignment for today?!" Quite frankly, with that kind of attitude, I'd love to turn in a 30 page paper and say, "Wow, I just loved this assignment! I couldn't stop writing it! I know you're just DYING to see what I had to say! Don't you just LOVE being a teacher?! It must be so rewarding for you to have students invest so much into this topic!"
9. It's 4:37 a.m. - the man who wrote the 2nd book I am writing about is named Everett N. Dick. Now, I know Dick is technically a name, but every time I read it I have Matilda flashbacks, and think, "Moby WHAT?!?!?!"
10.5:01 a.m. and I'm still going at it. I finally hit the "Okay, too tired to think point," but that's okay because the shaky feeling wore off and I have another Mt. Dew. I also should get more ibuprofen for my head, since the last dose wore off an hour ago and I'm starting to feel it. Jeez, I haven't drugged myself so heavily since I had swine flu! 1741 words... I need another break. I'm tempted to extend "break" to 1 hour of sleep, but I really can't afford that right now. Plus I just consumed about 25 mg of caffeine (in a delicious "smooth citrus" flavor), and trying to sleep after that is a bad idea. Time for another jog around Stadium Terrace, I guess.
11. 5:30 a.m., and I broke 2,000 words. 1,000 more to go! I was averaging about 1,000 words per hour after I actually started writing the essay itself (instead of outlining, final research, etc), but I'm slowing down. Really, REALLY slowing down. It took me 1/2 an hour to write the last 250 words.
12. Another hour or so, and my mom will be up! I can call her for a brief pep talk!
13.6:32 a.m., up from a 45 minute long attempt at a nap. It failed dismally. I didn't sleep a wink, and now I'm just tired.
14. 6:58 a.m., dawn is breaking, and I finished with the 2nd book. One more book and 750 more words! I can do it! I can do it!
15. 7:16 a.m. and I have 550 words left!
16. 7:42, and not only do I only have 300 words left to write, but I'm on a roll! My brain is chugging along, and I know what I'm writing about, instead of trying to make sense of all those letters that I think just might be forming words, like I was an hour ago.
17. 7:50 and 201 words left! So close!
18. Now, at 8:02 a.m., I am thankful for irony. I finished the rough draft. I pulled up the word count. 3000? Nope!
2,999!!!!!!
Are you serious??? ONE word off? REALLY???
Well, I'm sure I can find a spot to stick a random word. I've still gotta edit it anyway. Alright, time to send it off to my amazing editor! Mommy, here comes the essay!!!
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Time... it's wrong... and I don't know how to fix it.
So, my blog is an hour off. Not sure why this is, but the last few posts have posted themselves an hour earlier than the actual time. This was helpful last night, because my Saturday "happy" Thanksgiving post (or not so happy as I was ready to bite my computer in half) was actually posted a bit after midnight on Sunday. Due to the hour being off, it appears to be on the correct date.
Anyway, without further ado, here's what I'm thankful for today:
1.SNOW!!! Everything is all white and beautiful and even though it's still cloudy the world is bright and happy!
2.Figuring out how to check stats on my blog. I'll post about what I found there eventually, but for now I really don't have the energy.
This whole lack of energy thing is a bit of a theme with my life lately. I'm perfectly happy at the moment (which is weird, because last night I was tired and stressed and VERY cranky), but I'm lacking in ability to think funny thoughts, or even talk much at all, which bleeds over into writing - I'm just not creative today. Therefore, I'm posting what I'm thankful for and naught else.
3.I'm thankful for the word naught. And wend. Did you know ("you" excluding Lynnae, and anybody else I've told this exciting fact, because I already know they know) that the past tense of the word "go," "went" as in "I went to Antarctica to teach the penguins to polka" comes from the word wend? As in, wend your way. If you wended your way in the past, then you went your way... if you goed your way, you are wrong. So very, very wrong. But, the words go and wend used to be interchangeable, and the past tense of one got stuck to the other, and that other fell out of common use. Pity how words die sometimes.
4.I'm thankful for next Tuesday, at 4:00 p.m. Because that is when my paper will be done, my midterm will be taken, and I will be on my merry way to DISNEYLAND!!! W00T!
5.I'm thankful my bed is like a cave. Not only am I on the bottom bunk
**we interrupt this post for a random thought**
I just had a typo on the word bottom. I spelled it bootom. Ha ha.
**we now return you to your regularly scheduled list of things Savannah is grateful for and nobody else cares about**
but Lynnae's dresser is by my head, closing me in, and I have a pile of blankets as well, making for a very cozy cave in which I can hibernate (yeah right) for the winter.
6.My blog clock just righted itself... I think. It's claiming it just saved the entry and the time is 10:08 AM, which is what my computer clock says, but we'll find out when I post this sucker what the actual posting time is.
7.I'm thankful my blog has a strikethrough feature.
8.I'm thankful for BREAKFAST! I have yet to actually eat anything, but my tummy is pretty busy prodding me to take care of my body, while the microwave beeps at whoever just nuked their food.
9.Wow! Thankful #9! Hmmm... what am I thankful for? Even though this is #9 on the list, certainly not the movie "9" that my friends were talking about last night... because it was weird - way too weird for my tastes. "Alice in Wonderland" was weird, but it was an awesome weird. "9" was just eew.
Anyways... I'm thankful for... for... forrrrr........
I really can't think of anything. My brain just went ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *thhpp* *splat*
I'll go eat breakfast. Then I'll add to my list.
**one breakfast and a very happy tummy later**
I'm thankful I'm sending stuff to Barry! I've been a rotten pen pal (though it might be easier to be a good pen pal if he'd actually WRITE BACK! Email? Acknowledge he received a letter? Anything???), so sending him a package is a little bit of penance. I think I'll send him an email too. And I'll get some pictures printed out and mail those to him in the package.
10.Speaking of Barry, I'm incredibly thankful that he's coming home in four months! My lil missionary brother! I miss him! I just want to hug him and squeeze him... and then get my lungs squeezed out because I called him little, and that he certainly isn't.
Anyway, without further ado, here's what I'm thankful for today:
1.SNOW!!! Everything is all white and beautiful and even though it's still cloudy the world is bright and happy!
2.Figuring out how to check stats on my blog. I'll post about what I found there eventually, but for now I really don't have the energy.
This whole lack of energy thing is a bit of a theme with my life lately. I'm perfectly happy at the moment (which is weird, because last night I was tired and stressed and VERY cranky), but I'm lacking in ability to think funny thoughts, or even talk much at all, which bleeds over into writing - I'm just not creative today. Therefore, I'm posting what I'm thankful for and naught else.
3.I'm thankful for the word naught. And wend. Did you know ("you" excluding Lynnae, and anybody else I've told this exciting fact, because I already know they know) that the past tense of the word "go," "went" as in "I went to Antarctica to teach the penguins to polka" comes from the word wend? As in, wend your way. If you wended your way in the past, then you went your way... if you goed your way, you are wrong. So very, very wrong. But, the words go and wend used to be interchangeable, and the past tense of one got stuck to the other, and that other fell out of common use. Pity how words die sometimes.
4.I'm thankful for next Tuesday, at 4:00 p.m. Because that is when my paper will be done, my midterm will be taken, and I will be on my merry way to DISNEYLAND!!! W00T!
5.I'm thankful my bed is like a cave. Not only am I on the bottom bunk
**we interrupt this post for a random thought**
I just had a typo on the word bottom. I spelled it bootom. Ha ha.
**we now return you to your regularly scheduled list of things Savannah is grateful for and nobody else cares about**
but Lynnae's dresser is by my head, closing me in, and I have a pile of blankets as well, making for a very cozy cave in which I can hibernate (yeah right) for the winter.
6.My blog clock just righted itself... I think. It's claiming it just saved the entry and the time is 10:08 AM, which is what my computer clock says, but we'll find out when I post this sucker what the actual posting time is.
7.
8.I'm thankful for BREAKFAST! I have yet to actually eat anything, but my tummy is pretty busy prodding me to take care of my body, while the microwave beeps at whoever just nuked their food.
9.Wow! Thankful #9! Hmmm... what am I thankful for? Even though this is #9 on the list, certainly not the movie "9" that my friends were talking about last night... because it was weird - way too weird for my tastes. "Alice in Wonderland" was weird, but it was an awesome weird. "9" was just eew.
Anyways... I'm thankful for... for... forrrrr........
I really can't think of anything. My brain just went ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *thhpp* *splat*
I'll go eat breakfast. Then I'll add to my list.
**one breakfast and a very happy tummy later**
I'm thankful I'm sending stuff to Barry! I've been a rotten pen pal (though it might be easier to be a good pen pal if he'd actually WRITE BACK! Email? Acknowledge he received a letter? Anything???), so sending him a package is a little bit of penance. I think I'll send him an email too. And I'll get some pictures printed out and mail those to him in the package.
10.Speaking of Barry, I'm incredibly thankful that he's coming home in four months! My lil missionary brother! I miss him! I just want to hug him and squeeze him... and then get my lungs squeezed out because I called him little, and that he certainly isn't.
Tonight I'm thankful for a lot of things, I'm just too tired to write them down
1.I got to play with Sophie today
2.I got 2.5 of my books read
3.My paper isn't due until 2 p.m. on Monday, so I have a few hours on Monday to write it.
4.I'm going to sleep now.
2.I got 2.5 of my books read
3.My paper isn't due until 2 p.m. on Monday, so I have a few hours on Monday to write it.
4.I'm going to sleep now.
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