{"id":297,"date":"2008-11-18T01:46:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-11-18T01:46:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T08:46:04","slug":"im-being-responsible-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/im-being-responsible-for-once\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m being responsible (for once)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got this history paper due on Thursday.\u00a0 It’s the big research paper for the semester, and it counts for a large portion of the final grade.\u00a0 Because the deadline is coming up, it’s really<\/em> pressing on my mind right now.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the semester, we had smaller assignments related to the paper–for example, we had to get our preliminary bibliography together, write a preliminary outline, etc.\u00a0 I…pretty much did the bare minimum on all of those.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Didn’t do so well.<\/p>\n

So for this final paper, I decided to finish it early, so that I could bring it in to the FHSS Writing Lab where I work and have one of my coworkers help me with it. \u00a0 That means, of course, that I can’t wait until the night it’s due to write it (which is pretty much how I’ve done every other paper of my college career).\u00a0 I need to be responsible and get it done early.<\/p>\n

I woke up today thinking “crap, I’ve got a paper I’ve got to write.” I decided that I’d sit down and write the whole d*** thing today after dinner.\u00a0 I had the urge to play Genghis Khan II, but I resisted it and went to the library.\u00a0 I worked really<\/em> hard–I only spent about 25% to 35% of my time there chatting with friends and engaging\u00a0 in avoidance activity.\u00a0 It was tough.<\/p>\n

I started out hating the paper, but once I had a thesis and an outline, I started to really get into it.\u00a0 History is kind of like storytelling, and I like storytelling.\u00a0 When I figured out how to insert footnotes on Word 2007, I started to get the urge to just insert a ton of them everywhere because it’s so cool.\u00a0 Gamila was chatting with me, and when she mentioned something from her Latin class, I said “hey, you could be the Franks and I could be the Saracens–after all, Saladin’s given name was Yusuf!” (my paper is on the crusades–can you tell?)<\/p>\n

The coolest thing was that when I came back to the apartment, I just felt so FREEEEEEEE!<\/strong>\u00a0 I mean, yeah, the paper is still due on Thursday, and yeah, there is still a ton of work that I have to do for it, but it’s half done, and the rest is easy!<\/em>\u00a0 I’m even starting to really enjoy this subject.\u00a0 I can’t wait to tell the story of Reynauld de Chatillon and all the things he did to piss off Saladin!\u00a0 That guy was so smug, sitting in his castle in Kerak.\u00a0 He even defied the orders of the king in Jerusalem to break the truce between the Franks and the Saracens!\u00a0 If it wasn’t for that, perhaps the Battle of Hattin would never have happened–perhaps the Kingdom of Jerusalem would have survived.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n

So, yeah, I was responsible tonight…and dangit!\u00a0 It’s 1:45 am and I haven’t written at all<\/em> for today!\u00a0 I would crank out a couple hundred words before going to bed, but I’ve got to get up at freaking 7am…holy cow, it’s going to kill me.<\/p>\n

But yeah, I’m just really happy to have that burden at least partially lifted from me.\u00a0 Being responsible can have its perks–I should try it more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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