I've been announcing eternal principles to my roommate lately, but I started with #2, reserving the #1 for something truly all-encompassing. Some of the eternal principles include #3--the sink will clog right before the dinner party and #6--a room is only as messy as the archaeologist living in it. But now, behold!! The #1 eternal principle has been identified, nay, revealed!
...drumroll...
The #1 eternal principle is...
The best way to finish everything you need to do in a given day or week is to procrastinate the number one most important thing!
Amazing! Stupendous! Life-altering in more ways than even I realize!
Actually, this simply comes of the fact that I am STILL avoiding writing a paper that is now due in 3 days...I'm 9 pages into a 20-30 pager, but I've registered my car, prepared an elaborate Valentine's Day package for a missionary, finished a book about the Donner Party, nearly finished The Blue Sword again, and worked out more in the last 2 days than I've managed in any given week this entire semester. The list goes on. It's amazing, really. I might just keep avoiding it and do my laundry and, perhaps, a few years worth of scrap-booking...the possibilities are limitless!
Here's to eternal principles, "those kinky little devils!!" ;)
Sadly behind, but nonetheless, still me trying to keep you all posted...
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I don't imagine you have any doubt about this, but yes, I am STILL working on that paper...the due date was changed to Monday and so here I am in the Ancient Studies room at the BYU Library trying to motivate myself to push through this. I've been here since 11am (ie, 3 hours) and have gotten a considerable bit done but still have a long way to go. Brought all the books up with me for motivation...if I can just finish the freakin' thing, then I won't have to haul them home and back here again to return...we'll see if that works. In the meantime, I'm going absolutely stir crazy! I don't think I've ever had such a hard time writing a paper, but then it's never been on such a boring topic and so long/for Joel all at the same time. My archaeology paper will be infinitely more enjoyable than this piece of ethnographic junk even though it'll be a LOT harder...
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