To don't list

[Prudence]

I actually made a 42-item home improvement to-do list a few weeks ago. So far I've done #19 and part of #20.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oh, I always faked the rough drafts and brainstorming crap. No way my brain worked liked that. My best writing was always after midnight on the final night.

[Prudence]

The truly sad thing is - even now they're teaching cloud mapping in school. To me! As in, take this mandatory workshop on brainstorming and show us your work. And as a requirement for participation in various groups I've now had to take that workshop TWICE! Sometimes I honestly feel like shouting at them: Do I look like I'm having a problem with my writing?!!? I'm an adult. I know what works for me. Cloud maps and timed "free writes" do not work. Doing it my way has been working gangbusters, so I think I'll not go mucking around with the system, thank you very much! (froth, froth).

In other news,
A bunch of my current unattended to items are intended to prep our place for sale sometime after graduation. (Assuming I score a better-paying job at that point, and that the market hasn't tanked by then.) So far, after 2 years, similar units are selling for almost 50% more than we paid for ours. So we're playing the fix-up game to try to maximize our profit and hopefully score a yard with the next move.

Meanwhile, there's this stupid list....

[Gemini Cricket]

Sort out our basement. We have boxes and boxes of stuff down there that I know we could get rid of or sell. But we'll probably just forget about it until we move again in a year or so...

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Sleep through class so teacher doesn't confuse me
do every other homework assignment, if that
work on reports only at the last minute
bullsht because I only read half of the book
pass tests with As and Bs
end up with Cs on my report card due to missing homework/reports

That was high school for me, for the most part. I really hope I can inspire my kids to care more than I did - if I had tried I could easily have gotten straight As and received scholarships, I know it.

To-Do List: Go back in time

[katiesue]

Count me in with the first draft/last draft crowd. It just seemed like such a waste of time to do so many drafts. I'd get up at around 4AM the morning the paper was due and type it out. I'd get a B+ (mostly because the teacher knew I did it that morning) and my friends who had done a billion drafts, had conferences with the teacher would get an A-. It just didn't seem like it was worth all the work for a half a grade point.

[Prudence]

I am the poster child for getting As with a minimum of effort. I am an Extremely Bad Role Model.

My justification is that producing work under pressure is a better simulation of the actual workforce environment. Yeah, that's the ticket...

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Prudence

I am the poster child for getting As with a minimum of effort. I am an Extremely Bad Role Model.

My justification is that producing work under pressure is a better simulation of the actual workforce environment. Yeah, that's the ticket...

I have a feeling that many on this board (myself included) fit into a similar category.

My school gave not only a letter grade, but "Work Habits" and "Cooperation" grades as well: in the form of E (excellent), S( satisfactory), or U (unsatisfactory). I got a lot of AUU's and ASS's (the latter was probably retribution from the teachers).

[Not Afraid]

My kids have my work ethic. They lounge about being as headonistic as possible and take aftenoon naps.

[Not Afraid]

I do one draft. I take my time, however. I'm not a late-night cramer, but, when I'm done, I'm DONE. Get it out of my site.