If You Give A Girl A Paper…

(all due respect to Laura Joffe Numeroff)

If you give a girl too many papers to write,


she's going to want something else to do instead.

So you'll find her a camera.

She'll take lots of silly pictures of herself in the mirror.


Then she'll want some props.
So you'll find her grandmother's vintage sunglasses.

Seeing them will remind her of her mother,

whom she hasn't talked to in several days. But her phone's battery is dead.
So she'll ask to use yours.
Then she'll use up all your battery talking to her mother.


Talking to her mother will remind her that she hasn't updated her Goodreads "currently-reading" list in a while.

So she'll have to use your computer to update it.
Seeing her list of currently-reading books will remind her of school.

That will make her remember that she has too many papers to write.

And chances are,
if you give a girl too many papers to write,
she's going to want something else
to do
instead.