To don't list

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I've actually been knocking quite a few things off my to do list, but a few items remain:

• Fix the latch on the Kitchen Cabinet
• Clean the garage out
• Schedule surgery
• Scan the rest of my slides

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you're absolutely...right!

Care to elaborate on the one that's not like the others?

[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

[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...

[Not Afraid]

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

[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.

[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.

[€uroMeinke]

I don't understand cloud mapping, or this business about drafts in school. I, like everyone else wiated till the last minute - I'm not sure that was the best way to work, but it certainly was the way I used to work.

I sometimes wish I could go back and write in the style I've aquired in my working life, much more effective I think than the trite formulaic thesis statement-body-conclusion drumed into my head in my hiugh school days.

Today though, all I write is really just a draft - passing from person to person honed and edited here and there and I'm fine with that. I also do a lot of brainstorming but that's a collaborative tool more than something I do on my own.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Care to elaborate on the one that's not like the others?

I have a hernia, that eventually I'll have to take care of - probably better sooner than later, but first there some blood work and tests to get out of the way. Getting old sucks.

[Not Afraid]

He has a hernia. I'm getting a brain MRI done on Friday. I guess it is time to rule out a brain tumor. hehehe!