Tonight's weekly stalemate

I admit that I am already sitting here thinking about (and now actually) writing about an aspect of my life.  I know that is what most bloggers do, and arguably all writers in the end, but it still feels weird that someone would be interested in reading my thoughts on matters.  Even though it was a friend, I will count the comment to last night's blog as the first reaction ever to any writing I have done outside of school, so kudos Brian.

To tell the truth, I am sitting here on a Friday night as I have done most Friday nights for the past several months staring at a computer screen needing to type a paper for class and having absolutely no motivation.  The hardest part of writing for me is finding a starting topic, and since this is for a class I have obviously had the topic for a week.  Due to thinking about homework I could not justify focusing on a topic for tonight's entry, yet why did I eagerly push homework aside to rush to do this instead?

So, I googled procrastination and sure enough found more than enough material outlining every reason and presenting countless solutions.  One college site even had every month broken out into the exact ways that most students will procrastinate for that period.   Ironically, just reading about procrastination made me realize how much time I was wasting and how I could be off doing something that I actually want to be doing at the moment.  As one of my co-workers once said, he stopped playing The Sims many years ago when he realized he was watching his character watch tv instead of just watching tv himself.  

All of that being said, if you need some of your own procrastination here is a great destination.