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43 Things I'd Rather Do Than Write This Article

23. Watch foreign movies without subtitles.

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43 Things I'd Rather Do Than Write This Article
Delaney Dawson

To start off, I love writing for Odyssey. In fact, I'm an editor for my team, and it's definitely one of the highlights of my college career. Sometimes, though, we college students run into this little wall we like to call Writers Block.

It's the worst.

As I'm sure you know, sometimes you'd rather be doing anything but what you should be doing, no matter how much you love it. Sometimes, you need a little spark of insanity and whimsy to find something creative.

Without further ado, here are 43 things I'd rather do than be sitting here writing this article right now.

P.S. I Love You, Odyssey


1. Watch 27 rom-coms.

27 Dresses, for example.

2. Drink hot chocolate.

3. Take all of my finals in one day.

4. Eat Thanksgiving leftovers until Christmas.

5. Force my roommate to eat Olive Garden (she's Italian and has standards).

6. Put up the Christmas tree and take it down in one night.

7. Swallow an entire bottle of ketchup.

8. Watch Bob Ross videos until I die of relaxed boredom.

9. Wash all the mugs I've been avoiding.

10. Vacuum my apartment.

11. Go to the gym.

12. Commute to work in New York City.

13. Go skinny-dipping in Alaska.

14. Study math.

15. Drink an entire case of beer (I hate beer).

16. Spend the night in a sorority house.

17. Watch Barney.

18. Sleep in 20 degree weather outside.

19. Do the cinnamon challenge.

20. Do the ice bucket challenge.

21. Get stuck at the top of a rollercoaster...upside down.

22. Go through a haunted house by myself.

23. Watch foreign movies without subtitles.

24. Play Scrabble with myself.

25. Have a Monopoly marathon.

26. Cry myself to sleep.

27. Run up and down the stairs.

28. Accept Mother Nature's "gift" for a month.

29. Break my glasses during an exam.

30. Play sports.

31. Run.

32. Drink Pepsi.

33. Drink coffee.

34. Watch paint dry.

35. Watch a pot of water boil.

36. Watch my phone die at 1% with no charger.

37. Burn my hair with a curling iron.

38. Get up before seven a.m.

39. Wash my hair with mayonnaise.

40. Eat burnt popcorn.

41. Eat popcorn...period.

42. Walk three miles in the snow to school.

43. Dig my own grave.

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