I finally have gotten around to working on my APUSH assignments this weekend... they are due tomorrow and I am nowhere near finished... and yet, here I am, posting a blog. I've been playing Tanaka's Friendly Adventure (I CAN'T FIND NUMBER 16, WHERE IS HEEEE?) and checking my email obsessively. You'd think that I'd enjoy abusing Wikipedia for an assignment, but I have to say that the American Revolution doesn't really interest me as much as watching paint dry. Ahh well, it will eventually get done, if only at four this morning and if only because Iro wants my gridsheets, essay, and DBQ (which will probably be turned in as is, two exercises incomplete) tomorrow. Make-up work suuuuucks.
I also get to hit edline around until it will open things I want it to, so that I can do my English assignments... I still have vocab and a rewrite assignment to do... I don't know why I don't want to do the rewrite assignment. Maybe it's because I can't think of a semi-controversial issue that I can dramatize without the world hating me. I don't want to brainstorm and dramatize something ridiculous like video games or gas prices, but my assignment is just that kind of ridiculous work, so I guess after this I should think of overdramatic nicknames and pros and cons for something like those. Siiighh, all because I was too lazy to do it yesterday. I actually can't remember what I did yesterday, which means that it was nothing important and I probably should have done my work. I think I mostly passed the day watching crap horror movies on SyFy and playing Higher! but I think I pass most Saturdays that way.
Regardless, here I am at 4PM, panicking because I know my work won't get done by my preferred bedtime, and I won't be getting as much sleep as I like to. And yet I'm writing this blog. I think I need someone to beat me around and call me worthless and lazy when I don't do my work. I should make a note to hire someone like that later in life (as in, when I have the money to pay them, which, with my crap financial planning, might be never).
Hmm, I suppose I should write about something important and significant, but I don't think many things in my life are. I guess that's why I ramble so much.
I still haven't finished the last chapter of Crazy. It is moving along at a snail's pace. I think that's partly due to the rewrite for the story that is in my head; it's planned to move along much slower than the original, and I think I have Tinyyellowboxes at the SRA (Luci's co-judge for Best Couple, the category I was nominated for) to thank for that, as Luci relayed to me that the main complaint was something like that the story moved like a hamster on crack... an opinion I can't disagree with, as I felt the same. Nonetheless, I've already began the rewrite.
On a related note, I have also begun writing that story I previously mentioned. I already think I have some things that need revised, but I do enjoy the beginning. Hopefully I can change those things I don't like without rewriting everything entirely.
I've also realized that I am much better at short stories than I am at extended storylines. I guess it's because I don't really need to worry about things like resolutions and plotholes, since I have a specific message in mind. But lately I haven't felt up to those-- I kind of enjoy the challenge of longer stories, and I spend so much time creating my characters that it feels like such a waste to only spend a thousand words or so on them.
I don't know how the topic wandered from my methods of procrastination to homework and to stories and writing habits. I guess it's because I still have this homework looming over me, and I am procrastinating via this blog post.
Sigh. I am surrendering. I can't afford a bad grade this year since I'm aiming so high in my life plan, and now I have to do my assignments to keep my good grades (and hopefully raise the F I have in English).
Muffin out.
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