IO: My 2000 word essay

[Laura M]

Yes folks, I have a 2000 word Social Anthropology essay due in before 3pm on Tuesday afternoon.

I have spent.... about 4 hours in the library reading notes, preparing.....

It has been an enjoyable day.

I will now share with you all my delightful journey as I try to finish my essay on time. *begins typing*

 

[JessicaAnn]

happy writing ...

 

[Laura M]

I have typed the title, now Im wondering how I should begin my essay its says on this handout we should introduce topic & mention problems faced in coming to a conclusion and how I will go about solving them....

 

[IWasBored]

i'm avoiding writing a paper


and avoiding studying for a test

and avoiding real life in general for another 45 minutes.

 

[Laura M]

I procastinating

 

[Salome]

its says on this handout we should introduce topic & mention problems faced in coming to a conclusion and how I will go about solving them....

weeeeeeeeee

sounds exciting

 

[Laura M]

I cant write an introduction it sounds really boring

 

[Laura M]

Strangers are very interesting right now!






Girl at 3 o clock was checking out a flight timetable on Esay Jet but has just left Hope she didnt see me peering around!

Boy in antrim shirt jsut blew his nose and touched the keyboard - makes me wanna take disenfectant to uni and clean the keyboards before I touch them

Someone has a polyphonic ring tone that sounds like Heaven by DJ Sammy.

 

[IWasBored]

I procastinating

me too. i am master at it.

i figure that if i've got to answer the phone for the radio station fund drive, and if it's as boring as it was last year, i'll have 2 and a half hours to study, plus an hour to grab some food and study some more before the exam. and i've got the weekend to write the paper (it's only a 2 page double spaced thing).

 

[Laura M]

Do it the morning before its due in

I am starting my essay a whole 3 days early!!!!!!!

I have written 63 words so far hard to believe for a girl who does so much chatting.

#i heard a funny story yesterday, would you like to hear it??

 

[Laura M]

66 words

 

[zonelistener]

GO WRITE YOUR PAPER!

 

[Salome]

after you've told the funny story of course

 

[Laura M]

its an essay zoney not a paper - your using your zonelisten name again???

Funny story

*On a bus, Lara Mullen a loveable rogue of 3 years old*

*Lara pulls mothers bra strap out from underneath her top and pulls and pulls and pulls then asks Mummy whats this?? Then before my Mum gets a hold of me I let go and hurt her*

*Bus erupts with laughter*

Me: What did I do after that Maw?

Maw: Well everyone laughed and laughed and you ran up and down the bus like a hooligan laughing and singing and saying hello to everyone


The conversation was sparked off after I seen a blonde haired child yesterday singing la la la la la - he looked like Willy Wonka

The story made me

Its better when I say it - Im good at bringing the stories to life

 

[Laura M]

Using ethnographic examples, discuss the view that kinship systems are ?facts of culture? rather than ?facts of nature?.


Anyone fancy doing this???

Go on you know you want to.

 

[ABEL]

its an essay zoney not a paper

there's a difference between an essay and a paper?

 

[zonelistener]

GO WRITE YOUR ESSAY

 

[Laura M]

there's a difference between an essay and a paper?

I dont hear anyone saying paper when I hear someone say they are doing a paper its usually some smart person doing loads of research into something - this is only 2000 words

I am doing my essay I am now researching Malinowski and the Trobriand Islanders


I can do many things at once unlike you dear zoney

Oh and I have now written 177 words

 

[zonelistener]

WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?

GO WRITE

 

[Laura M]

Im researching?? I only wrote my introduction.


dont shout at me

its now up to 196 words!!

 

[Salome]

Its better when I say it - Im good at bringing the stories to life

you should do one of those taped books things then, because this already made me

 

[Salome]

I am now researching Malinowski and the Trobriand Islanders

I missed that episode, I think

 

[Laura M]

its gripping salome gripping

we learnt about them in lectures - they belive magical spirits act on a woman to create a baby - but a baby is a dead spirit that lives on the spirit island called Tuma Baloma

 

[Salome]

Tuma Baloma....

so this wasn't on the A-team?

 

[Laura M]

No Salome

fix up look sharp

 

[kobayashi]

you have several options...

now Im wondering how I should begin my essay

'in this day and age of globablization...'
'as the information superhighway becomes increasingly prevalent...'
'in a time of international turmoil...'

and so on and so forth...

 

[Laura M]

so in the following essay sounds bad then

See I never know how to start my essay this will be changed later on once I have finished it - I just need a starting point

 

[Laura M]

guy at 10o clock - laughing to himself, scratching his face, lifting up his apple core and setting it back down again, laughing some more, coughing. Acting a bit mad if you ask me. Im so nosey.

 

[ABEL]

isn't paper what you write your essay on?

 

[Laura M]

actually I type it on a computer then I print it on card