Monday, October 23, 2006

Untitledness

I have this assignment due tomorrow and as usual I have left it until last minute. Well if I didn't leave it until last minute it wouldn't be me. It wouldn't follow my pattern of continually screwing myself over. I do it all the time and do I ever learn? Nope. Never. Can't. Won't. Ever. Learn.
So the assignment is to write a speech about someone important in my life. So I chose Heidi. She was the first person that came to mind. And I know exactly what I want to say I just can't put it into words that last four to five minutes. I want to share all my stories, all my memories but those can't fit into five minutes which leaves me sitting here thinking "How will I ever finish this?" And then of course my imaginary ADHD kicks in and I am distracted by things like Blogger and MSN.
So I tell myself "Get back to work" and I do for a few minutes but then I lose my focus and go back to playing Solitaire and chatting with friends and listening to music.
I want to get this done I really do but I'm at a loss for words. So here I sit waiting for an email and hoping that some thunderbolt will come down and strike me. This thunderbolt will give me the words to say what I need to and get me to bed soon so I am not exhausted tomorrow when I have to be in class at 8am.
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7 comments:

Heidi the Hick said...

Check your email....

Imaginary ADHD. You're awesome! You know my husband has PD. Procrastination Disorder. I think you might have it too. We should start a support group for you two. But you'd probably never get around to showing up for meetings!

Now start writing. I want a full report tomorrow evening!

by the way...I feel entirely unworthy of this and am afraid that if you ever find out how boring I really am you'll never come to another Billy Idol concert with me.
xo

10:13 PM
Michael Colvin said...

Assignments suck!

One thing I have found that helped me was to just type all my ideas down in one long stream of consciousness. If I tried to do snappy openings and get all the grammar correct I would stall and eventually get frustrated. It was more satisfying to see a whole load of text than a blank screen or a single sentence and at least it felt like I had made a start. Then I could edit it and change it around later without the stress...just my two pence worth!

8:26 AM
.:.KC.:. the brown eyed girl said...

I decided to do some story telling. I shared memories. I wrote whatever came to mind in no particular order. So let's see how this goes. I was lying in bed last nite and I made up some good stuff. So I think I might just stand up there, give my intro and make up the rest. I am sooo good at making stuff up. Besides nobody knows the person I'm talking about...so I could make up some wicked, cool stuff.
Yeah my grammar is sucky this early in the morning.

Heidi - I would show up to the meetings but the question is "would I accomplish anything at the meeting?" Also props to Jethro.

tod- assignments are crap. thanks for the tip. I will try it next time. It's so hard to know what to say and not be able to find the words to say it.

8:32 AM
Heidi the Hick said...

Tod- very good advice. I've written an entire sucky novel that way. someday I might go back and fix it up!

KC- You and Jethro would get to the Procrastination Disorder meeting, gab for a while, agree that you don't really feel like solving anything, and go get a coffee.

I'm so glad I won't be there for that speech. cuz i'd cry.

10:47 AM
dilling said...

why would you want to make Heidi cry now?

12:35 PM
Coffeypot said...

Heidi said to ask you, so will you publish the speach? She is a unique person and deserves the praise and respect. Print it so we can all cry – NOT.

2:38 PM
.:.KC.:. the brown eyed girl said...

Lucky for you, I will publish it and lucky for me there wasn't enough time for me to present it today. So I will have time to fix it and improve it.

3:37 PM

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