An empty house for a few hours... Wow. ^_^

Davner has taken Jack-jack off to Culver's for some daddy-son bonding time, and Mark is at preschool.

I would love to use this free time to frolic, indulge in my recordings of DWTS, and eat junk food, but I need to get classwork done instead. Alas. ::dramatic hand to head::

At least I'll have some decent peace and quiet for it, and Dav made choc. chip cookies last night. Not Mark-safe, but incredibly delicious, which considering what usually happens when he bakes instead of cooks, is near miraculous. ^_-

Tomorrow we're going as a family to check out Pueblo, and do some recon for a lengthier trip we are plotting later this summer, which may involve an overnight stay. Online searches seem to show housing prices are way better down in Pueblo than up here, so we'd like to do a lengthy visit to check out the area and see if we'd like to retire down there when Dav leaves the AF in about fifteen years.

More school ranting! Yay!

I procrastinate hideously. I have long acknowledged this.

Unfortunately knowing this does not help prevent me from doing it.

And really, procrastinating vs. NOT procrastinating does little good when faced with the following:

My next essay, the "problem/solution" topic essay, is due next Friday, with optional rough draft for extra credit due tomorrow. It's worth 20% of my grade. I finally buckled down this afternoon to work on it, since I have the house all to myself.

Normally the prof. posts a lengthy description of what the essay is about, what needs to be included, what format he wants, how many sources minimum are required, minimum word count, and which citation style is to be used.

For this essay? All I have to go on is this: "The problem/solution essay asks students to identify and apply an analytical principle to a particular problem or situation. The essay will establish context for and define both the principle and the situation and will demonstrate how the proposed approach resolves a problem or question. Research on both the principle and the situation will be required."

No word count. No citation style. No minimum source count. No nada.

Joy.

I spent most of the afternoon poking around the class website hoping to find something, since the 1,200 vs. 12,000 word count debacle proved I am highly capable of overlooking obvious things. I found zilch.

Tom's suggestion is that I find something off of CNN.com, choose a problem facing the world or country, and go to town on it.

Probably going to be what I end up doing, since all I'm doing on my own is BSOD-ing mixed with panic. But I'm not happy about the lack of guidance.

Oh well.

Once more unto the breach...