Thursday, September 18, 2008
Student's Block
The time is 6:48 in the p.m. and i am currently sitting at a desk on the first floor of the library. This area of the library is my favorite because it's completely cut off from all cell phone signals, the wooden chairs are actually semi-comfortable, the books in this area interest me, it's never very full and most of all because it is accessed through the atrium so i don't feel so cut off from the outside. Anyway, i am having what is known as student's block (i just coined that phrase) it's when a student has a myriad of things he could be doing but just can't seem to get down to doing them. For example: I need to write a one and a half page essay on my food habits, to be written in french. Or i have a Latin test tomorrow to study for, i have a paper on Frankenstein to start drafting, i have things to read and things to write but i all i can bring myself to do is blog and browse the iTunes music store. I think it is for this reason that student enter the library, intent on getting all this work done, and they leave five hours later having gotten done only half of what they should have. Never before has the absolutely uninspiring print of some sort of modern cat been so entrancing that one can stare at it for upwards of forty minutes. I'm just hoping that this blog will get my writers juices flowing and i can turn my attention to my french paper. Wish me luck everyone, particularly you graduates of BYU who as you read this are smiling, nodding your head, and praising the Heavens you're not here.
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Jack, dear, I know the feeling of being unable to study in that particular part of the library. it's a malaise.
I am smiling and yes... very happy not to be there.
However, what you are experiencing is actually a well documented condition called "zoobie ADD" and there is only one cure. Cookies and cream milk and a bagel from the twilight zone.
(The health center will issue a refillable prescription upon request.)
4:22 AM: Hamilton woke up an hour ago...I had to wash bottles to feed him, he went peepee everywhere when I changed him, and now I'm too awake to fall back to sleep....AND my mind is suddenly worrying about stuff I can't possibly take care of right now. Sometimes I wish I was staring at cat art trying to get myself to study. Maybe we can trade places for a day? Be more appreciative of where we are right now? Or maybe we can both reflect on nice it is NOT to be the sucker that has to bake 400 cupcakes in one day...imagine being that guy!
reflect on it my friends and learn from my pain and sorrow.
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