Yes. I’m writing a paper right now.  Yes, that paper is due tomorrow.  Yes, I am in college (how could you tell!?).  Yes, I am deliberately wasting time that could be spent finishing that paper to write this entry.  And yes, I don’t really care.  What’s ten minutes anyway?  (According to my professor, ten minutes is all it takes to wikipedia the information needed for this paper, but that’s besides the point.)

What is the point, you may ask?  Circles.  So no points, heh.  Good imagery.

I think the point is that even though I know what I want to say in my head, I can’t lay it out in writing because everything I am trying to say comes full circle to other points I haven’t even made yet.  How do I explain one thing when that explanation hinges on a second explanation that also hinges on the first?  I mean really, I can’t even get this concept out without sounding nuts!

They say that if you can’t explain something, then you don’t actually understand it fully.  To them I say “ppppppthhthhtht, you write my paper and see how well you lay these concepts out!”.  It’s not that I don’t understand the material in the paper, it’s that I don’t see a clear start or finish to the ideas that need to be put in the assignment.  One thing causes another and causes itself at the same time by causing that second thing.  Circles.  This is where my mind is, and it’s getting dizzy.

Well, back at it then.  I still say that I could have drawn a picture of this faster than this is taking me to write.  But that’s not what they asked for.  They asked for words, and words they shall get.  But it’s not my fault if everything is jumbled, loops lead to tangents, and lines of thought connect.  Ecology is full of webs, and after all, that is what the paper is about.  Circles.