The Great Adventure

After almost 5 hours of adventure walking yesterday which included but was not excluded to: shell hunting, tide pool poking, steep hill sliding, butt muddying, dog watching, pictures, and our fair share of TMIs; I would recommend the following: ensuring you have your car key at all times, having a little bit of luck on your side, at least one family member waiting for you back home, and at least a little bit of a sense of humor.

How Half Moon Bay became adventure central, I really don't know.

But that was all yesterday.

(Salvador Allende, the topic of my group project)

Here's today's agenda:

• Finishing my part of my group project (hopefully?)
• Printing out all articles and finding books for my solo research paper
• Driving home, getting there HOPEFULLY by 8?
• Reading aforementioned research paper material

That's ambitious enough for today... We'll see if I even get that far.

For the weekend:

• Reading ALL research paper material
• Beginning and hopefully (fingers crossed to my determination) an outline for my paper
• Polishing any presentation material as needed

It doesn't seem like a much in list form, but believe me, compared to my normal weekend workload, it's a lot.

If I can get all of those done in that time frame, which seems simple enough, then I'll only need at least 4 pages a day written of my research paper to finish in a timely manner. I only have to worry about 1 final exam this quarter which is nice. It's just this damn research paper I'm stressing over.

(My research paper is on Executive Order 9066 which resulted in Japanese Internment)

I've never really done a serious research paper that I felt was actually going to be graded. I've written possibly 2 or 3 papers before and they were for classes I knew were so lax and the teacher so ridiculous that it didn't matter if the paper was horrible. I was relying on the fact that they wouldn't be read and actually considered.

I had one teacher say we could count pictures into the page count!

But given that this is my senior thesis and a really BIG deal, I don't want to be saving it until the night before, panic attacking and fighting off my urge to nap insted of work. I'm really bad at not procrastinating. So if in the following days anyone wants to allocate library time with me, it'd be more than welcome.

Now, to continue with today's work...

end note: I think I'll blog every day about my progress on this "staying on track" bit so I feel more pressured to perform. So I can drill it into my head.