LaraMN: Consummate Scholar.

[LaraMN]

I have my paper written for class tomorrow night. It's largely revised. All the bibliography and citation stuff is done. All I have to do is sit down and proofread it for minor errors. The proofreading process goes as follows:

1. Announce to household that I am going to go work on my paper.
2. Get sucked into NoelMN's SpongeBob Squarepants video game. Refuse to let him play.
3. Realize I need to stop playing and go finish paper.
4. Make NoelMN go to bed. I have fifteen golden spatulas in the game, and he's going to go cash them
in, if he grabs the controller while I'm working on my paper.
5. Decide I'd better throw laundry in the dryer before I get started.
6. Reapply lipstick, so I can look pretty while I work on my paper.
7. Sit down in the office/den.
8. Get out paper.
9. Decide I need coffee, in order to read through my paper.
10. Sit down again.
11. Decide I need to pee before I read my paper.
12. Sit down again.
13. Decide I need something from the kitchen to aid in my proofreading efforts.
14. Walk into kitchen.
15. Realize I can't remember what I needed to get.
16. Sit down again.
17. Decide I should check DU first, just to warm up for working on my paper.
18. Decide to post about how I've managed to avoid proofreading my paper.

MAKE IT STOP!!!
:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

1. wow...that's just awesome.

it's #13-15 that make it art. really. i'm in awe.

[LaraMN]

4. *snort*!

:rofl:

[Redstone]

2. So you ARE just likethe rest of us, after all.

Except that you look a helluva lot better in boots and a short skirt than quite a few of us do. Me, for example.

Redstone

[LaraMN]

6. Yes. Unfortunately the boots and skirts thing only gets one so far.

:7

It doesn't aid procrastinative tendencies, that's for sure.

[Redstone]

13. Well I'm certainly no procrastinator... Hey, can I finish telling you about that tomorrow?

Redstone

[bridgit]

3. well honey, that's just the price of being brilliant yes...

:hi:

[LaraMN]

7. Lol!

It takes me alot to focus!

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. This is exactly how I've not accomplished finishing an appraisal

report today. And I've hated myself every second of it too.

I mean really, replace your people with my people and it's exactly the same. Except I've been stopping for tootsie rolls too and to check on my fantasy football team. Don't feel bad. :hug:

How's Jack doing? Feeling better?

[LaraMN]

8. At least I'm in good company!

Jack's doing much better. He ate a whole lot of pizza last night, and while that's not exactly nutritional gold, it's something!

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Edibles are edibles when your baby's not eating.

I used to let James go through an entire box of Carmel corn when he was sick. Just to get something...anything in them!

We'll have to update each other on our "progress". Right now I'm "affixing my pictures to my report". Honest. I am. In between sentences here. :hi:

[LaraMN]

10. Okay- I have ten pages to go through.

I'll post every three pages!
:thumbsup:

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. So far I've got the subject, rear view, and street view attached.

We're rolling now! :bounce:

[LaraMN]

18. Good job! Keep going!

Okay- I switched tactics.

I marked it all up (on paper), now I'm going to go correct it (on the 'puter)!

[SPKrazy]

11. You Could Always Get A Bottle Of Champagne

oh wait, you tried that once

damned hamsters are everywhere trying to ascend

[LaraMN]

20. Yeeeeahhh...not so much.

:D

I don't want anything about rodents getting edited into my paper on a whim.



:D

[SPKrazy]

26. Rodents Rodents Everywhere

you never know, that might be the part of the paper that tests whether the prof or their assistant actually reads the paper, or weighs it to see if it is heavy enough


:crazy: :pals:

you are like me in that you can't remember what the hell you started out to do. I will be at work and walk from my office to another part of the unit, and be like, what am I doing here?

I do the same at home too.

[Redstone]

14. On a serious note: The best way to proofread is to read it aloud. Trust me, it works.

Redstone

[LaraMN]

21. Oh! Good idea- I'll do that, too.

:thumbsup:

[Momgonepostal]

15. Do you have ADHD?

I ask because that sounds like me starting just about any project.

Somehow its funnier when you do it. :-)

[LaraMN]

22. Possibly-

but I couldn't likely focus long enough to read through the list of symptoms and decide if I do.


:P

[Momgonepostal]

47. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner...

I got distracted by something and then needed hot chocolate. You know how it is. :-)

[dpbrown]

16. Sounds mighty productive to me!

What the heck, turn in the rough draft. That's what I always did.

:rofl:

:applause:

[LaraMN]

17. Never! Handing in a paper is like baring your soul!

I can't hand in anything that I think is an inept representation of my skills. I'd be mortified.
:P

[dpbrown]

25. Well, ahem, my drafts were just that good...

:rofl:

:P

[ghostsofgiants]

40. Haha, honestly, that's what I do.

And they're usually written during an all-nighter the night before they're due.

[bicentennial_baby]

19. But...Did you find the piece of Sausage Pizza in the Den?

Inquiring minds want to know... :rofl:

[LaraMN]

23. Yes. In fact I did.

It was under my desk, and it didn't look too tasty anymore...
:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

24. ...

:spray: We were wondering all day....the suspense was killing us! :rofl:

:loveya:

[LaraMN]

28. Did I tell you what Jack did this morning? I posted about it in a thread somewhere....

My husband got up with the kids so I could sleep in. He sacked out on the couch (was probably sleeping,) and Jack got into the fridge, took out a pitcher of juice, went into the living room, and dumped it on my husband's back.

:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

30. Bwahahaha! The clever lil devil!

:rofl: I can't wait to tell Sniffa!!! :D

And btw, we've been meaning to ask you, based on your post from the other day, what exactly does "pretending to be a whale" entail? :rofl:

[LaraMN]

33. Oh God- If I EVER learn to use the video feature on my camera,

I will show you!

He saw a whale on t.v. and was signing "whale" and moving in a whale-like manner. That's the only way I can explain it. He likes to sign and dance alot. He has numerous signature "moves".

[bicentennial_baby]

36. Man, If we ever get near where y'all live,

We are so coming for a visit!!! You're our heroine, and the Jack-monster is our Hero!! All hail Jack, the most adorable and real-est kid on the block...I'm in long-distance love....sigh. :)

:loveya: both sooooo much! :)

[LaraMN]

37. I would LOVE that!

If I had the power of mental teleportation, there are some DUer's I would have SO MUCH fun hanging out with! You guys, for sure!

[GirlinContempt]

27. Arrrrrrr

[LaraMN]

29. I think you are going to develop nodules on your vocal chords from your piratese.

No. I don't THINK you are; I KNOW you are.

[GirlinContempt]

41. So you didn't take my advice?

[LaraMN]

44. I forgot what it was...

something about making bison?

[GirlinContempt]

48. Pirate-ese

[LaraMN]

31. In the process of "working on my paper" I have also learned that:

A. According to my wrist and elbow measurements and some magic chart, I have a small-to-medium body frame.

B. My bmi is 20-point-something.

C. My ring has dried lotion embedded in the band.

and

D. As I suspected, while "partisan-ish" and "partisan-y" are not words, I CAN find someone's serious use of BOTH on the internet.

[Kerrytravelers]

32. I particularly liked #6.

6. Reapply lipstick, so I can look pretty while I work on my paper.

Because looking pretty really is half the battle, isn't it? :rofl:

[LaraMN]

34. I can't concentrate if I know I look really bad.

It's a psychosis with me. Every who knows me irl knows how ridiculous I am about it, and they just tolerate it.

:rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

35. This reminds me of this Family Circus cartoons, where it shows the path that the boy takes on his

way home, or running whatever errand he's supposed to do.

[LaraMN]

38. If I left a trail of dots like that kid,

I would have to vacuum every fifteen minutes.

[ghostsofgiants]

39. That is some damn fine procrastination right there.

I bow to your superior procrastinatory ways.

[billyskank]

42. Lara you are AMAZING

:yourock:

[LaraMN]

43. Fyi: I SO kicked out that paper last night!

Although I took so long about it that I had to forgo a run to the store to get supplies for my visual aid, and had to go this morning, instead.

One down, two to go! Phew!

:bounce: :hi:

And :hug: s, babe!

[yellowdogmi]

45. You have skills! I say consummate procrastinator!

You should be proud.

:hi:

[SKKY]

46. And I thought the Spanish were the worlds greatest procrastinators...

...I stand corrected. You, LaraMN, are the Queen of all procrastinators..

[hfojvt]

49. that's amazing

re #6 - where do some women get the idea that lipstick makes them look pretty? :scared:

I guess you can add #19 - get dozens of replies to my thread
and
#20 respond to some of the replies