Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Strange way of doing research

Perhaps it's not just me, but my last post was about how I procrastinate etc. I find that my best work is produced in one sitting, under stress and most of the time, in the early hours of the morning. WHY??? WHY must I always insist on starting assignments after 11pm?!

This morning, I decided on the research topic (due in about two days). I planned to think about it all day and then as soon as I get home, I'd start my research. Is that what I do? NO! So what did I do? Well, went to uni and passed my day like every Tuesday.

Went to the first class - although it's the last lecture for the semester so we had a fun time. The funny Indian (I ASSUME OK!) boy from last post got a prize for the best performance. Since he represented an iwi, his prize was a bag of kumara. Excuse me while I go LMAO.

Following this, I had a break and in this break I met up with my group and we decided on how to proceed in doing our group assignment. I like group assignments. Why? BECAUSE I'M LAZY AS FUCK. If I could ride on other people's coattails all the time, I would. Unfortunately, I start getting obsessive and paranoid. Then I'll freak out and then do extra work because I don't to fail. NOT THIS TIME! Feels like a responsible and reliable group. Don't think I'll need to do more than what is required. Sweet!

*insert transition here*! After the meeting, I had about 20 minutes till my next class and I spent it panicking about how I'm going to fail my exam for this class. Seriously, this subject used to be easy! I never had to put any effort into it and now... now I actually have to work hard. I fear I might actually get a C for it. Then class started and we played Chinese whispers. WTF? Yes, what a fun learning experience. =D

My next class was a geography class and I actually managed to stay awake during the entire lecture. We had a guest lecturer and she was amazing. Considering she held my attention for the entire class, it's pretty impressive. I can get distracted even on the internet. It was about Auckland public transport. Lol, laugh all you want but I see great developments planned for the future of public transport in Auckland. Just gotta pray that it actually comes true.

For lunch, I met up with a couple of friends and we walked down to the Viaduct and had Mexicali Fresh. It's Taco Tuesdays so they were selling tacos for $3 each. It's a messy experience, but yum! I'd definitely go back again eventually. Actually, I have been intending to try it out for a while but never got around to it. However, I don't think I'd pay full price for it - freaking $7 each and they aren't gigantic either! Should probably have took a picture but I dug too fast.

On our way up, we stopped by Kapiti and bought an ice cream. At first, I was like "hell no! $4 for one scoop of ice cream!" Then I tried a few flavours and my mouth had mini foodgasms one after the other so I gave in and bought one scoop. Imagine my surprise when that scoop turned out to be quite a generous serving! I got some dark chocolate chilli raspberry flavoured one. I actually wanted the other chocolate one but feared it might be too sweet by the time I finished it. I'll try it next time!



This post has once again gone off on a tangent. I slept on the train ride home then instead of starting my research like I'm supposed to, I just watched Youtube and had dinner. Grocery shopping followed before I finally started my research.

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JK. I had a shower, went on Facebook and then at about 11:30pm I opened a word document and started typing out an outline but some how the bullet points I jotted down (usually I jot down bullet points that seem vaguely familiar so I can go research it later) turned into rough paragraphs. I pretty much wrote my essay... just need to go do research and find quotes from scholarly articles/books/etc to back up my bullshit. Wish me luck!

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