On time
Time is something that seems to be slipping away lately. I've noticed that, as I age, I plan further into the future. Projects are planned for the months ahead rather than the days; a combination, perhaps, of my own procrastination and more pressing matters than tomorrow's homework, the plague of pre-teen years.
Every day is another test, another lesson of studying, another teacher saying “and that's the end of the course”. Another reminder that exams are are getting closer and the pressure is increasing.
I was remarking to Sam just a few minutes ago that I needed to write a blog post when he pointed out that it really shouldn't be a chore. I don't think it is, really, but it is something that preys upon my time this late at night. I suppose that I could be doing it, indeed, should be doing it earlier in the day but a lack of time and a hatred of any change to my “get in, load webcomics, get snack, watch DVD, do homework” habits make it more difficult than it really ought to be.
Then again, I find it hard to work without pressure. I leave homework to the last night, though I know people who leave it very literally to the last minute, so I suppose I'm not all that bad. I just can't create that pressure myself. That's really what this blog is, an experiment to see if I can push myself to use a chunk of my precious DVD watching time to make something seemingly creative on a regular schedule without outside pressures and goals.
Writes the boy with headphones round his ears and House sandwiched between NeoOffice and the desktop, a little to the left of Firefox. Funny, NeoOffice's spell checker recognises “firefox” as a word but not “NeoOffice”. Interestingly, though perhaps not as much funny as weird, the original version of the first sentence of this paragraph didn't contain that reference to the desktop, which I felt I wanted to add in to make it clear that I was talking about the computer's DVD player, but that meant that the tidbit about the spell checker made no sense. I didn't want to lie but I liked that second sentence, so I spent a few minutes restructuring that first sentence and then even more time writing out this explanation that probably makes the whole paragraph unwieldy.
Welcome to my mind.
All that, plus the editing I'll probably now do in the Blogger word processor, probably explains why these things take up so much of my time. But I'll keep on doing it anyway, because I want to and because I can. Also, tidbit isn't in the spell checker either. I'm gonna have to sort that.
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Bertrand Russell
“Having Quotes of the Day on your Google homepage can help make you seem a lot smarter than you actually are.”
Alasdair Corbett
Every day is another test, another lesson of studying, another teacher saying “and that's the end of the course”. Another reminder that exams are are getting closer and the pressure is increasing.
I was remarking to Sam just a few minutes ago that I needed to write a blog post when he pointed out that it really shouldn't be a chore. I don't think it is, really, but it is something that preys upon my time this late at night. I suppose that I could be doing it, indeed, should be doing it earlier in the day but a lack of time and a hatred of any change to my “get in, load webcomics, get snack, watch DVD, do homework” habits make it more difficult than it really ought to be.
Then again, I find it hard to work without pressure. I leave homework to the last night, though I know people who leave it very literally to the last minute, so I suppose I'm not all that bad. I just can't create that pressure myself. That's really what this blog is, an experiment to see if I can push myself to use a chunk of my precious DVD watching time to make something seemingly creative on a regular schedule without outside pressures and goals.
Writes the boy with headphones round his ears and House sandwiched between NeoOffice and the desktop, a little to the left of Firefox. Funny, NeoOffice's spell checker recognises “firefox” as a word but not “NeoOffice”. Interestingly, though perhaps not as much funny as weird, the original version of the first sentence of this paragraph didn't contain that reference to the desktop, which I felt I wanted to add in to make it clear that I was talking about the computer's DVD player, but that meant that the tidbit about the spell checker made no sense. I didn't want to lie but I liked that second sentence, so I spent a few minutes restructuring that first sentence and then even more time writing out this explanation that probably makes the whole paragraph unwieldy.
Welcome to my mind.
All that, plus the editing I'll probably now do in the Blogger word processor, probably explains why these things take up so much of my time. But I'll keep on doing it anyway, because I want to and because I can. Also, tidbit isn't in the spell checker either. I'm gonna have to sort that.
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Bertrand Russell
“Having Quotes of the Day on your Google homepage can help make you seem a lot smarter than you actually are.”
Alasdair Corbett
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