That's unlikely, I'll just have to force myself to put in the work and push through... But today I'm working on a report draft for a different subject, that's much more fun (and a million times less important... But I get to work on it today because we have to hand in the draft by wednesday)!
Currently reading another paper that the lecturer sent to me after I told him my ideas for the topic I wanted to write about :)

Yeah, that makes things better :)
I also have one day per week (wednesday) where I allow myself to not think about the stupid project at all, since that's the day that is basically full with other lectures anyway. Helps keep me sane...

Welcome to the thread Icey! :)

Yes, I remember those as well - from elementary school I think! It was a real craze indeed. I remember my mom was worried that the plastics were somehow harmful and I had a real hard time to get her to let me have those plastic strands... I have no idea anymore what we used to call them, actually :o

IceyVampir wrote:

I didn't start calling them lanyards
until like waaaaaay later xD
I don't remember what my classmates called them back then either
I would just look up one day and
half the girls in class were making them ^w^
As for the beads when I was in elementary school
there was an arts and crafts class and we used to make
snakes. I took it a step further and made flags with peoples names
or other words an sold them to my classmates
it was a nice hustle I really miss making them.
I wanted to get back into it but finding good string for it has been hard
I used to used super long flat shoe string
because it would hold the shape really well
without being too difficult to take apart
Eventually I was moving around so much my materials got lost
and the shoe strings weren't long enough for my projects anymore
couldn't find a decent substitute at any of the craft stores I went to