Painful experiences

I've had a heat pack on my neck/shoulder off and on all day today (well in the afternoon after I went to the store to buy a heat pack). I needed to do this because apparently I got hit a lot yesterday at my game, and woke up with a bad headache and horrible pain in my neck. Looking back, I can count four times that somebody decided it would be fun to try and just stand still where I was running through, causing the other person every time and me a few times to end up on the ground. Of course, there was also an incident that I did to myself which involved slipping on the wet grass and managing to end up on the ground.

Hopefully by tomorrow I won't feel like I gave myself partial whiplash.

Also, I'm hoping that tomorrow I can finally motivate myself to write this paper I've been putting off. I don't know when I've ever had this much trouble getting started on a paper (perhaps one of the insanely stupid assignments from Janota?). In trying to figure out why I'm having this trouble (to hopefully fix the problem), I've hit on a couple interesting facts.

I generally have no trouble making myself write a paper in which I get to pick a side and argue. I also don't have trouble taking a difficult to understand topic and making it understandable. This pretty much covers all possible philosophy topics. I don't mind doing research to describe something. For example, piecing together bits of information to put together a coherent picture of an economy or some such. While this can be a little boring, I don't have trouble getting myself to do it.

Now, you'd think that would describe most economic papers, but this sadly isn't the case. Currently, the paper that I just don't want to do involves, well, nothing. Or at least that's how it seems. I'm supposed to compare and contrast non-existent Cost Benefit Analysis projects of California's Solar Initiative. Granted, a lot of this has to do with the fact that my group decided a smaller project would be better (I still don't know why they thought that was a good thing), so instead of looking at 1.1 billion dollars worth of a policy, we're only looking at 100 million.

Which means that nobody cares about it, because it's so small. Which means there's no research done on it, particularly because it's geared at low-income housing, which by law has to receive 10% of funding. So nobody has bothered to do a Cost Benefit Analysis of this for us to look at, because it really doesn't matter.

So really, this assignment is completely pointless, unless I want to teach myself how to BS, which is something I already know how to do, and don't really like doing (contrary to popular opinion I would much rather write a paper with an actual point).

At least I've learned that I'd better pick a worthwhile thesis topic if I want to be able to make myself write it.