I wonder if I could study procrastination at university...

My computer keeps bleeping at random intervals. What is it trying to tell me? That some unknown download is finished? That there's an error somewhere? That someone's stuck down a well? Who knows.


Well, it's twenty five to eleven now and I still have some Maths revision to do... for a test I have second lesson tomorrow... and I don't have first period free... So I really need to wrap this up pretty quickly. What should I do... how about little whining, possibly with some whinging and a touch of complaining and self-doubt?

Okay, so that'd be a bit much. But I would like to apologise to both my readers for the rather lousy updates recently. I seem to go through these periodical cycles where I just go into a slump and can't produce anything. I was hoping that it might have let up after I finally dealt with my university applications but a series of tests as well as an awareness that I'm falling behind on some school projects (Physics in particular, though I'm actually a bit ahead of schedule in Computing) has meant that I'm still feeling pressure.

And pressure, for some reason, leads to procrastination. On a rather random side note, I put up a poster in the common room today that dealt with procrastination. I got it from ThinkGeek along with a recent order of t-shirts (I got three, effectively doubling my extremely limited wardrobe). It was that quite well known one about procrastination; “Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.” I think it's been adopted as a kind of motto.

Anyway, where was I?

Oh, yes. My procrastinating and lack of effort on various fronts. I need to do more on The Grey Line and the MacTake as well as getting the VersusCOM podcast back up and running. Then I've got half a dozen other little side projects to carry on with. It seems like I've not only bitten off more than I can chew but I've also realised it and now I'm just not bothering to eat at all.

That was a terrible metaphor but it hopefully gets the point across.

Now, I've just had a rather unpleasant conversation (as tends to happen at this time of night, for some reason) and I still need to do that Maths revision so I'm going to call it quits here just as soon as I find a funny link.

Hmm... the treatment of video games in this TV show clip is hilarious. Note towards the end how they load Excel spreadsheets on an apparently unmodified Xbox.