Thursday, October 22, 2009

Pre-Writing

In our first seminar we touched briefly on the pre-writing phase of our final projects, and discussed the importance of brain-storming to come up with a topic. Since that time, I've been attempting to 'brain-storm' my topic; unfortunately, that works out more like an endless loop of pointless thought process. It's more like a thoughtless process. My mind just wanders, then it wonders, then I remember the old joke about 'not letting your mind wander, because it's not big enough to be out alone'. :)



So after seminar last night I was determined to come up with a topic and move on to the next step in the process. I didn't come up with anything last night after seminar, so this morning when I woke up, I decided my first task of the day would be to GET A TOPIC. It's important. It deserves capital letters. Luckily, today I am off work and I also feel like I am over my stomach bug so it's going to be a good day. So I lay in bed and think about my paper (that passes for multi-tasking in my world). I am going to share my thought process with you. No, seriously! this is how my mind works.



"okay, I really have to think of a topic. So I have to write a scientific paper about a controversial subject. Okay. I can do that. I could write about....hmmmm......well, I could write about kids with ADHD and 'to medicate or not to medicate' but I think somebody is already writing about ADHD. I could write about.....what is that noise? Oh. The wind is blowing that tree branch against the roof again. If I thought I could get onto the roof with a chain saw I'd cut it off myself, but if I didn't kill myself trying to do it, somebody would kill me when he got home. Maybe he'll do it this weekend. I have to get him to fix Stephanie's computer too. Think about your paper, Kathy. Okay. I could write about......man, whoever said that your mind could not be a blank never met me. My mind is like the whiteboard when Ms. Perales has it set to private. ha ha You know, it's a shame that I have these beautiful french doors in my bedroom and the view is of a telephone pole with an extraordinary number of lines on it. That's not pretty. I wish that wasn't there. I wonder if I could get somebody to build a really tall fence and paint a pretty landscape on it. ha It would be nice if I could see all the way across the street to the park and the pond....think about your paper, Kathy. I could write about...okay....what's controversial? Gay marriage? Yes, but not scientific. Though isn't it odd how gay men are exposed to so much more prejudice than gay women? Or at least I think they are. I do have a gay woman friend that broke down in tears last Thanksgiving though, about abuse she has taken because of her lifestyle, so maybe not. The paper, Kathy. Controversial subjects......gay marriage, death penalty, Obama, actually politics in general....this is going nowhere. Scientific subjects....well, I'd like to research and learn more about depression and what causes it and what cures it, but that isn't controversial. I think society is basically united in the 'depression is bad' opinion. I maybe could use that for my A & P paper, though. Okay. Controversial things that affect our bodies: pregnancy, sports injuries in children, depression, piercings, tattoos.....oh my GOD that branch is driving me crazy. There's a branch on the neighbor's roof too. They are probably going to shoot out our windows if we don't get this tree trimmed. What was that dream I had last night? That was weird. I can't really remember it all, but it was something about a baby picture of my cousin, which is weird because she isn't a baby. She has grandchildren. Why was I dreaming that someone wouldn't let me have her baby picture? So strange. And then her sister was in my dream, and I don't speak to her. The subconscious mind is a strange thing. I think right before I woke up my cousin had a seizure and passed out in the bathroom, and my friend was trying to help her...maybe I could write about epilepsy? Not controversial. My cousin is controversial....but that's a different story. Sigh. Okay. Well, what else makes somebody have seizures? My friend had them once because she was taking speed to lose weight and she took too much. Wait. That might actually work!!!! I could write about obesity. Maybe not obesity, really....I think someone might already be doing that...but about weight loss products. The attitude of society that there should be an 'easy' way to lose weight. I could do that. I could write about the physiology of our bodies, what nutrients our bodies need to function, what kind of crap we fill our bodies with instead, and what we really need to do to get healthy, as opposed to what most people do, which is fill their bodies with dangerous products that make them lose weight fast and how bad that is for them."



And on that note, ladies and gentlemen, (not that there are actually any gentlemen here, but whatever) I actually got out of bed to e-mail Ms. Perales and see if that topic is acceptable. If it isn't, I'm writing a ten page paper about the tree branch that is hitting my roof. :)

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