lol perhaps...but I feel much better tonight, now that I have completed the assignment.
I really need to work on typing my work as I go...I'm still stuck in that silly old uni habit of writing/drafting my essays up by hand on paper ..... then editing and typing them up afterwards.
I will say, this has it's advantages, 1 being that when I write, I generally divide myself into two separate characters...one the creator, the artist, the author... the other the editor, perfectionist and critic.
Typing them up and editing as I go in a single draft just feels too mechanical (even if it does save time) but when I do this I find them a little too sterile, and lacking in flow/my usual flair, which I find detracts from my finished product.
Does this make sense or do you think this is a habit I have carried over from uni back in the early 2000's and really need to kick?
It''s different when I'm writing articles, reports or short essays... I can punch these straight into the computer without a hitch... but when it comes to long essays, or scholarly articles where I am cross checking references and revising my own application frequently ....I like to sit there in a quiet place, (usually my bedroom ) sprawled across the bed alongside open and bookmarked text books (pages marked with white pieces of paper) with a pile of self-notes, quotes, and cited text I plan to incorporate into my essay...and a lap to at hand of course.
We required no less than 15 references this time, and no less than 5 journal articles..(not abstracts) ...though 5 of these references had to be cited from our teachers own preferred texts, of which is unusual, and not something I have come across before, not even at uni. Different if you are writing a report, so I think this teacher is a bit of a free-styler herself....'tad alternative' this or is teaching from an Indian call centre in Bangladesh balancing Krishna and Trishna on her shoulders. Ignore me, I was shitty earlier.
I'm more of a free styler myself, so don't enjoy the rigidity, restrictiveness of incorporating other peoples thoughts I disagree with,(their cited text) into my own work...unless I think highly enough of their work that I might like to.
Anyway.... I don't want to talk about this essay, for another week.... would rather know how you lot are...and talk about anything but this again tonight.
Mon 8 Feb 2010 - 11:50
... Coffee and a cigarette.... OK I lie, (already tried this earlier) but you lot would probably laugh at me if I told you one of the techniques I feel like using to overcome the weighty distraction of WB, ... you see... right now, if it were really early in the morning I would strip down bare and role around on my back lawn naked, absorbing the chlorophyll I imagine beneficially absorbing through the pours of my skin. 
