[Note: This picture has absolutely nothing to do with tonight's blog, although I'm sure I could center my rambling's on the pair of socks that I completed last spring. They were the first pair of what I hope will be many more to come. See, I told you I could write about my sock and I could go on, but I'll spare you. Anyway, the sock's making an appearance because I felt like having a picture to accompany the blog. However, I didn't have an appropriate picture and decided to take the opportunity to show off my sock. Sorry, back to the blog.]So when I first switched to blogging on Blogger after a few years with Xanga (and a few good months of regular blogging), I noticed that I was having a difficult time blogging regularly. My blogging was sporadic, at best. At the time, I speculated that my inconsistent blogging was due to one of two reasons:
1) I had begun to associate the computer with being at work and therefore did not want to turn on the computer at home, or
2) I had really been using blogging as a way to avoid studying during grad school and now that I had graduated, I didn't have anything to avoid so I therefore didn't blog.
Well, tonight I discovered the answer to that question. My sporadic blogging was due to Reason Number 2. When I was consistent with blogging, I was really just avoiding the unpleasantness of studying. I was procrastinating. And since after grad school I didn't have anything to put off, I didn't blog.
So how did I come to this conclusion? Because as I write this, I'm supposed to be writing a letter of recommendation. My evening was filled with laundry, cooking, and packing, and I'm bloody tired and would love to go to bed, especially since tomorrow's gonna be a doozy. So am I being responsible and writing the letter? No. I'm having a difficult time with it, to be honest. It's not like I don't want to recommend the person that I'm writing the letter for. It's just that I'm a little stuck right now. And what was the first thing I thought of (other than "Dear god, I'd love to go to bed.")? I thought, "I know! I'll blog!" So tonight's blog is brought to you by our dear friend and enemy, Procrastination.
Y'know, my sophomore year in high school my english teacher kept harping about the honors kids being procrasinators...what a pain...crap, it's almost midnight...
2 comments:
I agree completely, and since when did "procrastination" become such an evil word? It was like the mantle of the devil in high school and everyone who associated themselves with it would never ever succeed in college. What a load of crap. I would have probably procrastinated even MORE in college (and still succeeded) except I didn't even need to because I'd just not finish stuff. Ahh, I miss that, not college, but being able to coast through and not finish stuff because you knew you already had that 90% and everything else you turn in was just adding to that. Can't do that anymore, well I guess I still could, but, y'know, ethincs.
yeah procrastination is great for blogging and myspace-ing, and it really gets a bad rep, unnecessarily. bleh, anyway, have a good trip!
hey wong!
well, though i'm not legally "mijares" anymore, you can always call me that. :) i'm so glad i got to see you and lance last weekend, i hope you 2 had a blast at the wedding and during your trip here in seattle. did you get to go to a mariners game? i'm sorry i didn't get to talk to you much, it was so hard to talk to anyone for very long that whole day. well, hope all is well in hawaii...george and i plan on going there later this year, so we will give you 2 a buzz and maybe we can all go out then. take care! ~kat mijares balagtas
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