This guide to creating an effective paper was copied from Alyssa.

1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lit place in front of your computer.
2. Log onto YM (With the busy status!). Check your email.
3. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it.
4. Head out to the kitchen for some chocolate to help you concentrate.
5. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt.
6. Text a friend and ask if he/she wants to go to grab a coffee.  Just to get settled down and ready to work.
7. When you get back to your room, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lit place.
8. Read over the assignment again to make absolutely certain you understand it.
9. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt.
10. You know, you haven’t texted/YMed that old friend since fourth grade. You’d better do that now and get it out of the way so you can concentrate.
11. Look at your teeth in the bathroom mirror.
12. Grab some mp3s off of LimeWire/BitTorrent.
13. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt. ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR YET?!
14. YM/text with one of your friends about the future. (ie summer plans, block party).
15. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt.
16. Listen to your new mp3s and download some more.
17. YM/text your friend and ask if she’s started writing yet. Exchange derogatory remarks about your prof, the course, the college, the world at large.
18. Drink some water.
19. Notice the old magazine in the kitchen. Read it.
20. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt. Check you email too.
21. YM/text some people to make sure you aren’t missing something truly worthwhile on TV.
22. Play some Solitaire (Or Pinball).
23. Check out Yahoo.com
24. Wash your hands.
25. YM/text a friend to see how much they have done, probably haven’t started either.
26. Look through your blockmate’s Multiply album of pictures from that party. Ask who everyone is.
27. Sit down and do some serious thinking about your plans for the future.
28. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt. Look over your online contacts on YM.
29. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt WHILE listening to your new mp3s.
30. Your PC/laptop just crashed, given too many open windows plus the mp3s playing. Reboot, and carry on.
31. Read over the assignment one more time, just for heck of it.
32. Scoot your chair across the room to the window and watch the sunrise.
33. Lie face down on the floor and moan.
34. Punch the wall and break something.
35. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt. And you contacts on YM. No one’s online, yeah? But just look through them anyway.
36. Mumble obscenities.
37. 5am - start hacking on the paper without stopping. 6am -paper is finished.
38. Complain to everyone that you didn’t get any sleep because you had to write that stupid paper.
39. Go to class, hand in paper, and cut out of it so you can take a nap.
40. Check your LJ/Multiply/Twitter/Facebook/Friendster/DeviantArt