Monday, September 17, 2012

Finding Motivation

I have a paper to finish writing by ten tomorrow morning, but I have run out of the willpower to finish it. Every time I try to continue, I blink and another hour has gone by. This is a list of anything I'd rather do than this paper. I will continue until I come across something I wouldn't rather do. And that is when I will go write some more. I'll start easy so it'll take longer.


  • Not write a paper.
  • Shop for food.
  • Eat food.
  • Become food.
  • Clean my room. 
  • Take out the trash.
  • Wash my clothes.
  • My homework for other classes.
  • Wake up in the morning after I drank milk and forgot to brush my teeth before falling asleep.
  • Rub sandpaper all over my body for two minutes straight.
  • Stomp on my own foot as hard as I can.
  • Pluck out my chest hairs one by one.
  • Accidentally kick a chair with my bare pinky toe while walking.
  • Do twenty handshakes with people who let their wrists go limp.
  • Read literally anything else besides the music history readings I'm supposed to be using for this paper.
  • Let a roach crawl up one leg and down the other.
  • Eat a hot banana.
  • Get my hands sticky and not wash them afterwards.
  • Twist my finger until it has turned 180 degrees.
  • Twist my foot until it's turned 180 degrees.
  • Twist my head until it's turned 180 degrees. Assuming it would just hurt, not break it.
  • Eat spicy ice cream.
  • Stand on my head for fifteen minutes with no break.
  • Roll down a hill with lots of pine cones.
  • Be pantsed in front of people.
  • Get salt on my palms and rub my nipples for 20 seconds.
  • Be tickled for 10 minutes straight.
  • Take cold showers for the rest of my life.
  • Never take a shower again for the rest of my life.
  • Skin both of my knees and my elbows.
  • Have to pick something up that I dropped in a used toilet.
  • Puke.
  • Be the only person in the world who couldn't walk on his hands.
  • Get silly-puddy stuck in my armpit hairs.
  • Pet a kitten.
  • Learn how to be responsible.
  • Puke with my mouth closed so it has to come out of my nose.
  • Walk barefoot across a hot parking lot.
  • Not wear deodorant for a week.
  • Get splinters on the bottom of my feet.
I honestly can't think of anything other than the typical dying, breaking something, being poor, etc. things. The only thing I can think of is at least it's not the 10-12 page paper that we have to write later in the year. But that's the worst consolation prize ever. Now I'm even less motivated to write this paper. Great.

2 comments:

  1. I counted at least three things on this list that you have already personally done...

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