O, Procrastination – where would I be without thee? (Well, I certainly wouldn’t have a blog, that’s for sure)
It never ceases to amaze me how much more time I spend on the internet when I actually have things that I should be doing, as opposed to days where I have absolutely nothing planned and usually stay away from the world wide web. I’ll do about ten minutes of work, and then I open up Mozilla and get on YouTube. And I’m not really doing anything worthwhile – just killing time until my conscience forces me to do ten more minutes of work.
Killing Time - get it? It's a clock, and its been stabbed...oh, never mind
I’m trying to be very good about it – I’ve started checking out books from the library that I’ve always wanted to read so that when the temptation to procrastinate strikes me, I pull out a book and read from that instead of logging on. I’m working through some of G.K. Chesterton’s works right now, which I find slightly ironic because the stuff he writes about is much like the sort of things that I’m reading for some of my classes. Perhaps the only reason I don’t enjoy myself totally is because I know that its assigned reading. Perhaps the way to enjoying reading homework is to trick myself into thinking that I REALLY want to read it all for fun!
Somehow I don’t think that I have the mental discipline for that, though.
But despite this, I find myself on Facebook more often than I think I’d care to admit. And I don’t know why, because I don’t have enough friends to make it terribly interesting and I spend most of my time on this social networking sight debating whether or not I should change my profile picture. I HATE trying to get a new Facebook photo, because no matter what I do, it ends up having that Myspace-I-just-took-this-picture-on-my-own-to-make-myself-look-more-interesting-than-I-probably-am look. And it irritates me, because I hate it when people have those sorts of profile pictures! I know someone who takes a different picture of themselves everyday and posts it on Facebook, but they might as well stop because it is the same pose with the same clothes and the same look on their face, and essentially is the same Myspace-esque picture everytime!
I wish I could get more pictures of myself actively doing things, but I see three reasons why this can never happen: firstly – I hate having my picture taken, secondly – I spend most of my time not in class or at work doing homework or sleeping, and thirdly – I never remember to take my camera out with me when I do decide to do something kind of fun. I’ve heard of people commissioning painted portraits of themselves from artists for the sole purpose of posting them as profile pictures. I’d do that, except then I’d worry about people coming up to me and saying, “You know, you don’t look as 2-D as you do in your Facebook picture.” (OK, I’m being a little silly…)
But still, having a good Facebook picture is important – you must let people think that you are more intriguing than you really are.
On a side and completely different note, I would like to give a shout-out to my most loyal readers, my family (everyone who isn’t a loyal reader, you can just disregard the next bit). For reasons you all can guess, you’ve been constantly in my thoughts and prayers this past week or so, and it was my greatest sadness that I couldn’t be with you all this last weekend (I mean, think about it – it was the best excuse to miss class! I’d be completely blameless…well, still responsible for work, but blameless for missing class…). I love you guys so much!
Alright, I’m done being mushy. Time for Facebook (maybe today I WILL get a new picture…)
