Too Full To Think
Happy After Thanksgiving!! I hope you all had a good one. For this week's blog we were supposed to vent about our Research Project--how is it coming along? What do we need to do to complete it? How do we plan to accomplish this? What areas of difficulty are we encountering? How we might overcome these obstacles? Honestly I am pretty sure that it is coming along just as any other Research project is coming. This is definitely not my favorite assignment of the class. I also feel like I ate too much food on Thanksgiving to even start to think about how my project is going. My whole week has just been thrown off schedule and things have just been not going as planned. We did not even have turkey for thanksgiving. We had prime rib, which do not get me wrong it was delicious but it is throwing me off. You are always supposed to have turkey for thanksgiving. I had this whole week off at my one job, which was supposed to give me time to work on my research project. Do you think that I worked on it, no? I chose to relax and do other things. On top of that I also woke up at 2:30 am to go "Black Friday" shopping with my mom so my brain is not functioning, as it should. So yeah my research project is coming along I guess. I am almost done. I made the mistake of waiting until the last minute to start my project. I did not reread the section I chose until Monday. I think that this was the worst assignment to procrastinate on. I am not motivated to do this assignment and I have no interest in it. The essay on Bullshit and Doublespeak was easier for me to write on. Not because it was a shorter assignment but because I was interested in it. The topic intrigued me. The Rlit book does not catch my interest. I have tried to get into the book but I have found it to be extremely difficult. I think that my most difficult obstacle for this assignment is going to be creating five pages of information. I now have probably only two. That is a serious problem. All I have to do know is try to expand on my ideas and add more information to my research project. I at this time only have five sources so I am hoping to maybe find more sources to give me some more information. As you can tell I am running just a little behind. I need to do some catching up. As I type this blog all I am able to sit here and do is think about how behind I am on this research project and how I really need to get cracking down on it. I also am sitting here thinking about how I really do not want to work on it because I am tired because I decided to be a crazy person and went shopping at the wee hours of the morning. So my plan to overcome this obstacle is to go take maybe a two-hour nap, hopefully get some energy back and attempt to finish this project by tonight or early tomorrow.
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving as well! That’s funny that you mention how you did not have turkey on Thanksgiving. I too feel that you are supposed to have turkey on Thanksgiving. My grown children have never been particularly fond of turkey but I insist on cooking it! My son asked for ham too this year and my daughter likes neither so she had her husband bring some fried chicken. We have plenty of meat options this year! Then there is the fruit salad that my kids and husband always tease me about. It was a family tradition growing up that we had a big fruit salad with whipped cream mixed in but hardly anyone in my family ever eats it. I finally caved in this year and didn’t make the fruit salad but I replaced it with a pretzel-jello salad and that seemed to go over better. It’s just hard giving up traditions sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI hope you got some rest and have made some progress on your research paper. I found this assignment easier than some of the others. I think because the research paper is more of a summary of the research someone else has already done and not having to come up with my own thoughts as much as we did in some of the other assignments. My best advice to you is to sit down today and not stop until you’re done. Good luck!