Procrastination - 1

     Why do we procrastinate?  What is the point of it all?   There’s a part of me that thinks that maybe it’s part of my brain’s way of giving itself some time off, so that it can...I dunno...do some sort of background processing.  If I’m being honest though, I think it’s just my innate laziness.

     I really am one of the best people I know at procrastinating.  Maybe that’s just because I know me best, but I do genuinely believe that I spend more time procrastinating than a lot of my peers.  Heck, I’m so good at it that I find myself procrastinating during my procrastinating.  As in right now, I should be revising.  I have some pretty major exams in a couple of weeks.  As in “I need to pass these exams so that I can stay at Medical School and follow my dreams” sort of major.  However, here I am, writing this.  Not only that, but after allowing myself to start writing this (the idea’s been in my head a few days), since I’d fulfilled my initial (albeit low) expectations of what I’d complete today, I thought I’d do half an hour on this.  And yet, after letting myself start, I found myself looking at possible laptops I could buy a sentence or two ago.  Now, I should be looking at them at some point - my laptop currently rattles when I hold it the wrong way, is losing its keys and occasionally freaks out for really no reason.   Much though I’m rather attached to it, I think this might be the beginning of the end.  I don’t want to be left suddenly without my portal to that wonderful and disgusting place that is the internet. However I consciously told myself that I’d let myself get a laptop for my birthday.  My birthday is AFTER my exams, so I can fantasise about laptops AFTER my exams.  But do I?  No.  I decide the time to look at them is during the time that I’ve allowed myself in order to do something else that isn’t revising.  It’s like some sort of meta-procrastination.  It’s not the first time and it’s getting pretty annoying.

     Recently, I watched Jenna Marbles’ video on Junk FoodConfessions.  Now aside from the fact that she’s pretty damn awesome, I want to be her friend and I have really an awful lot of respect for her for doing what she does, I thought that I’d take a leaf out of her book and start writing down all the things that I do to procrastinate.  I’ll publish this after exams, and maybe it’ll help me to stop doing the things I shouldn’t be doing and start doing the things that I should be doing.  I’ll put it up in instalments, so that you can fully appreciate it all. 

So...here goes. 

1)       Checking  facebook, stalking anyone who I haven’t seen/talked to recently.  Facebook has since been deactivated, which is way harder to keep up than it should be.

2)      Going on funnyjunk/icanhazcheezburger and not only looking at top uploads, but looking at the newest uploads and then ending up comparing the two and looking at everything twice because I saw everything in top uploads when it was in the newest uploads.  Also getting really annoyed at a lot of internet peoples.  Let’s not go into why.

3)      Looking at pretty dresses.  Again, something I justify to myself on the basis that  I have a ball  coming up and want to get a new dress for, since I don’t think I  have anything quite formal enough.  However this ball is months off.  I have time.

4)      Obsessively finding new webcomics  and reading their entire archives.  I’ve done this for enough so far that  I’ve added 7 new comics to my list of things to regularly check.  That’s just the ones that I particularly liked.   And some of their archives went back over 5 years.   THAT’S A LOT OF STORYLINE NOW IN MY BRAIN

5)      Doing the above with blogs/tumblrs/fanfictions.  

6)      Reading over old skype/facebook/email/text conversations with my friends.

7)      Feeling bad about what I said in those conversations/realising that the friends were actually being kinda harsh.

8)      Trying to reconnect with old friends (this happens at random, if you feel we need to reconnect and I haven’t tried it with you, it’s nothing to do with you, more like to do with when you’re on facebook/skype and how long for)

9)      Skyping everyone I know.

10)   Watching youtube videos about things that are irrelevant to me  and that I don’t care about. SO MANY MAKE UP TUTORIALS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO LOOK COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO ME IN THE FIRST PLACE.