Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Prepping for a paper

Step 1: Arrange study area in living room. Look at text on which I am supposed to be writing and type some garbage.  
Step 2: Talk to roommate. 
Step 3: Decide it is time for dinner. Make dinner. Eat dinner while typing some more garbage.
Step 4: Realize you have to get ready for an evening lecture. Get ready. 
Step 5: Go to lecture, which takes longer than the time alloted for it.
Step 6: Return from lecture and decide to make pumpkin spice bread. 
Step 7: Realize you have no nutmeg, so go downstairs, outside, to the other apartment complex, and rummage through your friend's spices before realizing she doesn't have any either.
Step 8: Go outside, to your apartment complex, upstairs and back to your own apartment. 
Step 9: Decide to turn the pumpkin spice bread into pumpkin spice muffins.
Step 10: Hold a makeshift Family Home Evening in which you are the sole family member. Have two songs just for kicks, a prayer, a scripture, and listen to two Conference talks. Do all this while arranging a canopy over your bed with the window curtain that is too short for the window. 
Step 11: Show everyone said canopy.
Step 12: Eat pumpkin spice muffin while watching a little television.
Step 13: Commit to writing your paper.
Step 14: Hear roommate come back and go to catch up on her stories. 
Step 15: Commit to writing paper. 
Step 16: After you eat another muffin.
Step 17: Get on YouTube and listen/watch Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" to get pumped up for writing your paper.
Step 18: Repeat step 17.
Step 19: Work on outline for paper while listening to "Viva la Vida: Or Death and All His Friends" 
Step 20: Work on outline until "Viva la Vida" stops playing (because you've worked through the entire album) and mess around trying to find appropriate music on YouTube.
Step 21: Finally finish outline and decide that you need to get pumped up again.
Stept 22: Go through various music videos searching for the perfect pep song.
Step 23: Decide you need to get up and move to keep awake.
Step 24: Decide you need to get up and go to the bathroom in order to feel comfortable writing your paper.
Step 25: Decide you need to make peanut butter toast with orange juice in order to get the serotonin flowing to write your paper.
Step 26: Decide to watch something to help you wake up while you eat your peanut-butter toast. 
Step 27: Change your mind and listen to Demetri Martin jokes while writing this blog about how many steps it took before you actually started typing your paper. 
Step 28: Realize that you must drink your orange juice in order for you to be able to properly absorb your adderall when you take it at 8:30, four hours from now. 
Step 29: Realize that you should have started writing the paper BEFORE the adderall wore off, to reduce the number of steps. 
Step 30: Write paper.

*Some steps have been omitted in the interest of time.