Friday, December 16, 2011

My Top Methods of Procrastination this Exam Period (in no particular order).
1. Unnecessary changes: outfits, my blog background, Facebook profile, meal plans, study locations...

2. Discovering the things I don't usually have time for... Like reading forwarded emails, and finding that my star wars name would be Emema Jeery, and looking at obscure "galleries" on news sites (for your own protection, do not look at anything involving strange family portraits).

3.  Food.  And good food.  And Lots of food.  Isn't it time for Christmas baking and fancy meals with   friends?  Isn't it important to eat the perfect combination of healthy, beautiful meals and comforting homey  treats?  It's the perfect time for Grandma's cookies and 10 dish breakfasts.  And isn't it better to share and please others, and make 5 kinds of pancakes, not just one? I wonder what would happen if I were to study food...

4.  Cleaning.  (Maybe this goes under number 2?)

5.  Music - choosing the right stuff to listen to helps me focus...and it only takes me...a long time to find it... But I need the right mood, the right instruments, the right speed, the right language...  And then there's the guitars and keyboard that are really just sad if they aren't being played.  And I need to practice singing high so that I can sing all the Christmas carols, inevitably in an uncomfortable key.

6. Unusual levels of interest in the fact that others are studying, and what they are studying - helping someone with French is really helping me study, right?  And I'd like to say that meeting people at the most convenient place for them is completely me being a nice person...but there's probably a bit of "oooh, that means a longer break from studying too.

7. Writing anything other than exams or study notes.  Cards, letters, blog posts, references, journal entries...

8.  Checking the weather.  How was it possibly more than 10 degrees in Ottawa YESTERDAY??? Fear not...the average temperature for tomorrow (which I may have looked at 5 times today...) is -7.  And Snow is coming...supposedly.

9.  Planning.  Planning when I"m going to do what (and knowing I probably won't actually follow the plan).  Plans to meet up with friends, trying to figure out what's going on with my family and friends over the break, thinking about what I want to do next semester, next year, after school...for my life...

10.  It's already been mentioned, but I think it's worth mentioning again.  Facebook.  I've never been such a Facebook creep in my life...except maybe in that one phase, last summer.

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