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I Should Have Told You Sooner, It's Been Gnawing at my Brain.

by penelope

So my friend Marc's puppet show, "Razia's Shadow" is now over and I have nothing to distract me from the undeniable fact that I am absolutely TERRIBLE at getting homework done. My methodology for doing homework goes somewhat like this: "Alright, I've set aside the entire evening to get this project that I've been putting off for weeks finally done. I've got my coffee, I've told my friends I'm b...

 So my friend Marc's puppet show, "Razia's Shadow" is now over and I have nothing to distract me from the undeniable fact that I am absolutely TERRIBLE at getting homework done. My methodology for doing homework goes somewhat like this:

"Alright, I've set aside the entire evening to get this project that I've been putting off for weeks finally done. I've got my coffee, I've told my friends I'm busy, It's only 6 in the evening, plenty of time to get this done and still get enough sleep so I won't hate the whole of existence when I have to wake up at 7:00 AM tomorrow for my morning class."

...

"Well, since I have so much time left, I can indulge a little and quickly beat the Shadow Temple in Ocarina of Time. Really, I deserve a break after telling my friends I couldn't hang out with them tonight. Yeah, that makes total sense. This will only take like three hours anyways."

*3 hours later*

"Wow that was great. I forgot how fun that temple was. Well, now here I am, totally ready and prepared with just enough time left to get this project done. I'm rested, relaxed and ready."

...

"Let me check facebook first though. That will only take a minute. I should really check up on my o-game too, as my resources are probably ready to be moved. Oh hey, is this an image gallery full of hilarious and cute pictures? I have time to browse through that real quick. I wonder if "Winter is Coming" has updated in the past 10 minutes?"

*2 hours later*

"I hate myself so much."

Not only do I manage to get absolutely nothing done, I wasted an entire evening I could have been using for legitimate leisure activity on putzing around on the internet avoiding the work I absolutely NEED to get done.

Why do I do this to myself?

Why am I so inept at just putting my nose to the grindstone and getting these things done?

Why am I writing in my blog instead of in the blank word document that is staring at, no, judging, the innermost, shameful parts of my soul?

Good question.