From: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org (oztori-digest) To: oztori-digest@smoe.org Subject: oztori-digest V3 #142 Reply-To: oztori@smoe.org Sender: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oztori-digest Monday, May 26 2003 Volume 03 : Number 142 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [oztori] The Great Oztori Drought of 2003 ["John Lacey" Subject: [oztori] The Great Oztori Drought of 2003 "I'd rather put out a mother fucking gospel record" ~ Eminem. Discuss. Join me in #oztori to discuss this, the most potent of contemporary moral issues. Tonight (Sunday) at 7:10 PM. Thankyou John - -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 23:06:12 +1000 From: AndrewR Subject: Re: [oztori] The Great Tori Drought 1994-2003 At 07:11 PM 25/05/2003, John Lacey wrote: >"I'd rather put out a mother fucking gospel record" >~ Eminem. > >Discuss. > >Join me in #oztori to discuss this, the most potent of contemporary moral >issues. Tonight (Sunday) at 7:10 PM. > >Thankyou > >John What about 11pm? I was in #oztori two nights running and no one turned up. I have a big arsed literature review to do - so of course I'm mega-procrastinating! It SO sucks procrastination. I got 5 spam e-mails and 1 oztori e-mail. 4 spams intelligible from Taiwan. Another side effect of procrastination - Big Brother addiction! Big Brother Up Late - It must be the voyeur in me - but they've actually been up and talking AND BITCHING like nothing else! Classic. Andrew P.S. can anyone advise me on how to start writing 5000 words? (Seriously) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 17:33:47 -0500 From: "John Lacey" Subject: Re: [oztori] The Great Tori Drought 1994-2003 > What about 11pm? I usually give up waiting by then... especially if no one's there. > I have a big arsed literature review to do - so of course I'm > mega-procrastinating! It SO sucks procrastination. Procrastination sucks? Perhaps you're just not doing it right. ;-) > Another side effect of procrastination - Big Brother addiction! Oh, now I'm beginning to see the problem... Big Brother is evil. (Though when I say "evil", I probably mean it in a Passions-esque sort of way.) > P.S. can anyone advise me on how to start writing 5000 words? (Seriously) Break your topic into a number of sections... say 5 for example for each aspect of your topic. Suddenly instead of a 5000 word essay, you have five 1000 word essays to write. Write each one, perhaps one a day (if time permits), then whack them together and edit like crazy. The big thing is not to worry about being perfect the first time around, because perfection is elusive and you'll never get started. Remember to reference everything properly and thoroughly (see the university's style guide for details). Most importantly remember... just as the journey of a 1,000 miles starts with one step, an essay of 5000 words starts with just one. [LOL!] The hardest thing (as you're no doubt aware) is starting, so just push through that barrier and you'll have few problems. [One thing I forgot to mention... after I've broken up the essay into how many number of sections, I like to go through the books I have and source relevant quotes for each section. *THEN* I figure out how to work them into the text.] John http://www.johnlacey.com - -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 15:46:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Nathan "®" Subject: Re: [oztori] The Great Tori Drought 1994-2003 AndrewR wrote: > I was in #oztori two nights running and no one > turned up. Awwwwwww. "No angel came". That timeslot is a tad too late for moi nowaday Andz... as I am ag(e)ing, it's getting harder (no pun intended) for me to stay up l8. > Another side effect of procrastination - Big Brother > addiction! Big Brother > Up Late - It must be the voyeur in me - Ceals & I have already discussed this at length after you apparently 'enjoyed' watching us making fools of ourselves doing interpretive dancing-whilst-still-sitting-on-the-floor to the Bangles' Eternal Flame (and not the inferior Human Nature or Atomic Kitten versions). > P.S. can anyone advise me on how to start writing > 5000 words? (Seriously) "seriously" ;) If all else fails, start with a "The". Nathan. ===== "I want to be a lawyer I want to be a scholar But I really can't be bothered" - 'Sat In Your Lap', Kate Bush. "I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now" - 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now', The Smiths. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:30:46 GMT From: Rebecca Appleton Subject: Re: [oztori] The Great Tori Drought 1994-2003 On Sun, 25 May 2003 23:06:12 +1000, AndrewR wrote: >P.S. can anyone advise me on how to start writing 5000 words? >(Seriously) Rough it out. Or you'll never start. Or worse, you'll start but you'll be going nowhere. If all else fails, a paper of about that length can cope with a good-sized introduction, so get started on that. You can call it 'putting off writing the "real" part of the essay', but in writing the introduction you'll clarify in your own head what you're going to do with the rest of it. Which usually helps somewhat for me. :-) ~Becc - -- www.crappism.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 20:32:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Nathan "®" Subject: [oztori] I am the official spokesperson for Dylan From: "Dylan says hi :)" | This is spam | Add to Address Book To: "Nathan_." , oztori@smoe.org Subject: Re: [oztori] testing... Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:58:04 +1000 prolly off the list cos my bloody home phone got d/c due to my flatmate not paying the bill...but i'm baaaaccckkkk :) - ------------------------------------------------------- Translation: "prolly off the list cos my bloody phone got d/c after fpm failed to cough up for the 1900 phonesex no's bill... but i'm baaaaccckkkk :) Nathan. ===== "I want to be a lawyer I want to be a scholar But I really can't be bothered" - 'Sat In Your Lap', Kate Bush. "I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now" - 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now', The Smiths. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 23:52:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Nathan "®" Subject: [oztori] Which Scarlet's Walk song are you? http://quizilla.com/users/scarypapertiger/quizzes/ Me: You are "Gold Dust!" you're just one of the happiest little tori girls in the world aren't you?! You lucky little bitch! hehehe Cool. But Gold Dust 'happy'?!?! They've got the 'bitch' part spot-on though ;) Nayth. ===== "I want to be a lawyer I want to be a scholar But I really can't be bothered" - 'Sat In Your Lap', Kate Bush. "I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now" - 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now', The Smiths. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 02:01:32 -0500 From: "John Lacey" Subject: Re: [oztori] Which Scarlet's Walk song are you? Me: You are "Sweet Sangria!" you're kinda pissed off... one of the angrier scarlet songs, nothing wrong with that.... really... please don't hurt me! - -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------ End of oztori-digest V3 #142 ****************************