El Duderino

There's this great scene in The Big Lebowski where The Dude meets The Big Lebowski. The Dude explains, "I am not 'Mr. Lebowski'. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."

Well, if I were in The Big Lebowski, I would be saying "El Duderino" all the time, because I'm certainly not into the whole brevity thing. This point, of course, is obvious to regular readers of this blog.

This is currently posing a problem for me on my take-home exam. It's two questions.... and limited to 1,400 words. Now when I burp, I record it using 100 words. So this whole word limit is creating a problem.

On the one hand, it's a positive, because it means I don't have to do as much work. The negative, however, is that I feel like I'm doing incredibly crappy analysis, because the prof wants us to address dozens of issues in very limited space. You can't cover anything in depth -- I feel like I mention things and then have to move on immediately.

My problem at this instant is that I can't write anything. I have two hours twenty-five minutes to write 700 words. Wouldn't be a problem, if I knew what to write....