I'll be the first to admit: I'm a brilliant procrastinator (maybe because I like YouTube way too much. Let's be real here). I tell myself the same lies that all procrastinators tell themselves: oh, after this one video, I'll do a last review for my journalism midterm and type up my honors response and send an email to my Greek professor... but I don't. It's all little things, too - the study guide is abbreviated, the honors response is a page, the email is five sentences long.
Why do we do these sorts of things? It's difficult to say. As I am not the resident psychology major (that would be my roommate), I can't analyze anything, but it probably has something to do with habit. Establishing habits of doing stuff before 10:00 (and finishing before 8:00, probably) is probably a good life choice. And I still need to work on that. I did it for a while, but I need to get back into that sort of thing.
That lifestyle is stressful, though; I did it for my junior and senior years of high school. Admittedly, if my GPA during the last two years of high school had been my GPA for my first two years as well... I probably would have gotten into several more schools. What changed?
Part of it might be that I know that my current GPA is a lot better than the GPA of some other people I'm friends with. After all have the grades to stay in the honors program, to stay in my fraternity, to apply to most College-based jobs, and to keep my scholarships up. As long as I don't go too far below what I have now, I'll be able to keep doing all those things - and that's something that not all my friends can say. I think some of that mentality might have rubbed off on me.
The other thing that might have rubbed off on me is that I'm still in the mindset of easy courses. Last year, I could write a few essays, read a few articles, put in some time in the theatre shop and pull out a good grade in the course. This semester I'm in two honors courses, which involves a breakneck pace of reading that doesn't condone my level of procrastination. Again, my procrastination levels could be worse, but there is an inverse proportion between Number of Honors Courses Enrolled In and Condonable Procrastination - and I am not wholly used to that ratio being where it is.
I've got to get used to it, however. And hopefully I will - after I go to the bathroom and finish this video.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
The end of Break
Well, once again, it's super late and I'm unsure about what to post about. Though this week has been quite nice - I've gotten a lot of things together, including summer ideas (the internship didn't work out) and other day-to-day things. I've also caught up on sleep, which is nice. I've also explored a lot of recipes that can be made in mugs. (Lime cake (based off of lemon cake because we don't have lemon extract) is good).
I think the main thing I need to realize is that I need to break out of my shell more. I know that's a really strange statement to make, but I think I've had a perpetual issue with shyness. I don't talk to people sometimes, even though I sometimes want to. I know my mother, at least, is frustrated with it and wants it to stop because it can sometimes hinder things (why don't I just go into the business office and ask about internships? IF I DO, THEN MY STOMACH WILL DROP OUT OF MY BODY AND I WON'T BE ABLE TO DIGEST ANYTHING AND DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY INEVITABLE DEATH?). Knowing me, I'd much rather do stuff alone - a consequence of being an introvert, I guess.
As an example of how much we differ on this: Earlier in the week, she proposed the idea that I travel a lot over summer break to work on my writing and have some stories to possibly pitch to travel writing companies when I get back. I got excited and started looking into flights to Europe (fun fact: it's apparently really cheap to fly to Oslo).
I was thinking that she wanted me to do the whole discovering-oneself-as-one-treks-alone-and-learning-self-confidence type thing. She had in mind that I would find a tour group for college students and sign up with that. Neither one is wrong, per se - it just depends on what is right for the individual. For my mom, it would be great to have a group that's already planned and ready to go; half the adventure is meeting the people and seeing the sights with the group she's sharing it with. That's perfectly fine - if that's your adventure, go for it.
Though that can be fun, I think I need to take a different. For me, I think it would be a bigger adventure to fly into Oslo without any Norwegian in my head and to figure out my way from there. There's no way to conquer one's fears than to do it when there's absolutely no other choice. Isn't that what my mother wants, anyway - to let me be able to talk to people better?
There's a lot of different ways to travel. Traveling in a group is more of an extrovert's thing; since I'm an introvert, going around alone is better for me. There's nothing wrong with either or even a combination of both. I understand that going in a group allows for more accountability, but sometimes the leap is part of the growth. No matter what I wind up doing this summer, I hope to be able to open up more.
I think the main thing I need to realize is that I need to break out of my shell more. I know that's a really strange statement to make, but I think I've had a perpetual issue with shyness. I don't talk to people sometimes, even though I sometimes want to. I know my mother, at least, is frustrated with it and wants it to stop because it can sometimes hinder things (why don't I just go into the business office and ask about internships? IF I DO, THEN MY STOMACH WILL DROP OUT OF MY BODY AND I WON'T BE ABLE TO DIGEST ANYTHING AND DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY INEVITABLE DEATH?). Knowing me, I'd much rather do stuff alone - a consequence of being an introvert, I guess.
As an example of how much we differ on this: Earlier in the week, she proposed the idea that I travel a lot over summer break to work on my writing and have some stories to possibly pitch to travel writing companies when I get back. I got excited and started looking into flights to Europe (fun fact: it's apparently really cheap to fly to Oslo).
I was thinking that she wanted me to do the whole discovering-oneself-as-one-treks-alone-and-learning-self-confidence type thing. She had in mind that I would find a tour group for college students and sign up with that. Neither one is wrong, per se - it just depends on what is right for the individual. For my mom, it would be great to have a group that's already planned and ready to go; half the adventure is meeting the people and seeing the sights with the group she's sharing it with. That's perfectly fine - if that's your adventure, go for it.
Though that can be fun, I think I need to take a different. For me, I think it would be a bigger adventure to fly into Oslo without any Norwegian in my head and to figure out my way from there. There's no way to conquer one's fears than to do it when there's absolutely no other choice. Isn't that what my mother wants, anyway - to let me be able to talk to people better?
There's a lot of different ways to travel. Traveling in a group is more of an extrovert's thing; since I'm an introvert, going around alone is better for me. There's nothing wrong with either or even a combination of both. I understand that going in a group allows for more accountability, but sometimes the leap is part of the growth. No matter what I wind up doing this summer, I hope to be able to open up more.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Formulaic Posts: Checking out Checklists
So... here I am... on the couch... trying to think of something to post about... um... TO GOOGLE!
When one puts 'Blog Post Checklist' into Google, there are an astounding amount of hits (well, of course there are, it is Google). Still, there are a lot of people who insist that there are 10-12 points that bloggers MUST hit upon before hitting 'post,' and, as expected, there isn't a whole lot of variance.
1. TITLE
Make it catchy? I think I did... did I?
2. WRITE SOME STUFF. (A cool intro is cool.)
Blah. BlahBlahblahblah. Blargh. Tada! Cool intro done.
3. BREAK UP YOUR PARAGRAPHS.
So I'm assuming that means to not write up mammoth paragraphs that only the most dedicated readers (aka my mother... HI MOM!) would actually pay attention to. I don't think I'm doing this - at least, not in this post. Not yet, anyway. This sub-section might be getting up there. ON TO THE NEXT ONE!
4. INCLUDE A PHOTO
Here is a photo of my shoes from a few years ago. I need to figure out how to format that thing. Leaving that there for now.
5. INCLUDE KEYWORDS.
So.... include words that are easily searchable? Should I add this to the Checklist pileup in Google right now? How do I do that? Google says: "Let's give out diagrams that make it probably more complex than it really is." Can I skip this step? Getting a lot of page views is not my main concern (though more page views would be nice, it's not exactly what I'm trying to do with this... right now).
6. TAG A LOT.
I will do that upon completion of the post. So... 'checklist,' 'list,' 'random ideas from the internet,' 'things other people tell me are important,' 'rant,' 'joke,' 'humor...' am I missing anything?
7. EDIT.
But I'm not done yet! What if I make a major typographical error in writing step 9 that I completely overlook because I only edited steps 1 - 7? THEN what?
8. HIT PUBLISH!
But I'm not done yet!
9. STORM ALL THE SOCIAL MEDIA!
But I don't have any social media for this blog. I'm skipping this step.
10. GO HAVE SOME COFFEE.
Why not? You deserve some caffeine from all that hard writing, titling, paragraph-breaking, photo-posting, keyword-including, tagging, editing, publishing, and social media storming that you had to do in the last nine steps. If you don't like coffee, have some other beverage of your choice.
BONUS TIPS:
- Brand yourself
Ha. Ha. Ha. Haven't done this at all.
- Use a Call to Action.
Yes. My Challenge to You: GO ON THE HERO'S JOURNEY. NOW. (not really; this is supposed to ask a question or ask for responses or whatever).
- Be Cool
But that's easy, surely.
Right, I can't do any other shenanigans that are part of a cool, legit website, because I'm not a web designer. I don't have huge plans for this blog to go viral or anything like that. Though I do like posting things that I write on the Internet, and I've considered using AdSense on the blog, I don't think it would work very well.
There are two major reasons for this: firstly, because I don't think I get enough hits to actually make anything; secondly, because I dislike ads as much as the next person - if I wanted to run a monetized blog, I would probably create a new blog and follow all the steps and try to make it all fancy like all the sites suggest. That, however, is not this blog. That might change, but I don't know.
Call to action for all you hooligans: what do you think about the content of the post? It's not intended to be a set of Legitimate, Follow-Wild-Card's-Steps-Perfectly sort of thing, but did you like it?
When one puts 'Blog Post Checklist' into Google, there are an astounding amount of hits (well, of course there are, it is Google). Still, there are a lot of people who insist that there are 10-12 points that bloggers MUST hit upon before hitting 'post,' and, as expected, there isn't a whole lot of variance.
1. TITLE
Make it catchy? I think I did... did I?
2. WRITE SOME STUFF. (A cool intro is cool.)
Blah. BlahBlahblahblah. Blargh. Tada! Cool intro done.
3. BREAK UP YOUR PARAGRAPHS.
So I'm assuming that means to not write up mammoth paragraphs that only the most dedicated readers (aka my mother... HI MOM!) would actually pay attention to. I don't think I'm doing this - at least, not in this post. Not yet, anyway. This sub-section might be getting up there. ON TO THE NEXT ONE!
4. INCLUDE A PHOTO
Here is a photo of my shoes from a few years ago. I need to figure out how to format that thing. Leaving that there for now.5. INCLUDE KEYWORDS.
So.... include words that are easily searchable? Should I add this to the Checklist pileup in Google right now? How do I do that? Google says: "Let's give out diagrams that make it probably more complex than it really is." Can I skip this step? Getting a lot of page views is not my main concern (though more page views would be nice, it's not exactly what I'm trying to do with this... right now).
6. TAG A LOT.
I will do that upon completion of the post. So... 'checklist,' 'list,' 'random ideas from the internet,' 'things other people tell me are important,' 'rant,' 'joke,' 'humor...' am I missing anything?
7. EDIT.
But I'm not done yet! What if I make a major typographical error in writing step 9 that I completely overlook because I only edited steps 1 - 7? THEN what?
8. HIT PUBLISH!
But I'm not done yet!
9. STORM ALL THE SOCIAL MEDIA!
But I don't have any social media for this blog. I'm skipping this step.
10. GO HAVE SOME COFFEE.
Why not? You deserve some caffeine from all that hard writing, titling, paragraph-breaking, photo-posting, keyword-including, tagging, editing, publishing, and social media storming that you had to do in the last nine steps. If you don't like coffee, have some other beverage of your choice.
BONUS TIPS:
- Brand yourself
Ha. Ha. Ha. Haven't done this at all.
- Use a Call to Action.
Yes. My Challenge to You: GO ON THE HERO'S JOURNEY. NOW. (not really; this is supposed to ask a question or ask for responses or whatever).
- Be Cool
But that's easy, surely.
Right, I can't do any other shenanigans that are part of a cool, legit website, because I'm not a web designer. I don't have huge plans for this blog to go viral or anything like that. Though I do like posting things that I write on the Internet, and I've considered using AdSense on the blog, I don't think it would work very well.
There are two major reasons for this: firstly, because I don't think I get enough hits to actually make anything; secondly, because I dislike ads as much as the next person - if I wanted to run a monetized blog, I would probably create a new blog and follow all the steps and try to make it all fancy like all the sites suggest. That, however, is not this blog. That might change, but I don't know.
Call to action for all you hooligans: what do you think about the content of the post? It's not intended to be a set of Legitimate, Follow-Wild-Card's-Steps-Perfectly sort of thing, but did you like it?
Friday, March 21, 2014
On Spring Break
While most college students have returned to school this week, I go to a school with a January-Term and a break after, so I'm leaving in the morning. HUZZAH!
Well, not really. Since I'm pretty much the only one from my hometown who has break this week (that I know of and who I am also willing to hang out with), it will be a week mostly of dealing with a lot of reading and writing. For homework. (Not for pleasure, unfortunately). Also, internships. The stereotype, of course, is that a group of my college friends who live near me would gather and go party at the beach, but that's probably not going to happen either - if we do hang out, we'll be going downtown for a day or so because we're nerds and there's a lot of museums in our area.
Maybe that should be my spring break goal... go to a museum every day...
But, alas, HOMEWORK! GAH!
In reality, my college spring break, at least this year, is going to be fueled by getting stuff done - catching up on studying, practicing for choir tour, sending a few forms to various places, getting a haircut and stuff. So, in other words, attempting to be a responsible adult. It sounds horribly dull, I know. Maybe I should try and blog every day to make it more interesting.
There is also another thing that I might be doing in April: Camp NaNoWriMo. I haven't decided whether I want to do it yet - so far, my attempts to write novels during college have wound up falling flat, by a lot. Maybe I should do Camp Finish The Novel You Started Three Years Ago Because You're Still Only Halfway Done. Or Camp Finish Writing The Story You've Been Working On For Five Years But Don't Want To Stop Because The Character Means A Lot And You Want To Bring Closure To The Story.
Intrepid readers, what camp of your own invention would you attend? Right now, I'm attending Camp Allergy, and I'm not having a very good time.
Well, not really. Since I'm pretty much the only one from my hometown who has break this week (that I know of and who I am also willing to hang out with), it will be a week mostly of dealing with a lot of reading and writing. For homework. (Not for pleasure, unfortunately). Also, internships. The stereotype, of course, is that a group of my college friends who live near me would gather and go party at the beach, but that's probably not going to happen either - if we do hang out, we'll be going downtown for a day or so because we're nerds and there's a lot of museums in our area.
Maybe that should be my spring break goal... go to a museum every day...
But, alas, HOMEWORK! GAH!
In reality, my college spring break, at least this year, is going to be fueled by getting stuff done - catching up on studying, practicing for choir tour, sending a few forms to various places, getting a haircut and stuff. So, in other words, attempting to be a responsible adult. It sounds horribly dull, I know. Maybe I should try and blog every day to make it more interesting.
There is also another thing that I might be doing in April: Camp NaNoWriMo. I haven't decided whether I want to do it yet - so far, my attempts to write novels during college have wound up falling flat, by a lot. Maybe I should do Camp Finish The Novel You Started Three Years Ago Because You're Still Only Halfway Done. Or Camp Finish Writing The Story You've Been Working On For Five Years But Don't Want To Stop Because The Character Means A Lot And You Want To Bring Closure To The Story.
Intrepid readers, what camp of your own invention would you attend? Right now, I'm attending Camp Allergy, and I'm not having a very good time.
Monday, March 17, 2014
On weddings and stuff
Firstly: I know I've changed the formatting a little. I've been procrastinating a bit on homework by trying to figure out how to do a little bit of HTML - then I realized that HTML is not necessarily something one can just do, and have that just be the end of it.
But HTML code is not what I'm trying to talk about today. I'm here to talk about WEDDINGS! (and by WEDDINGS, I mean the wedding I went to this weekend). It was my cousin getting married, and it was something that has been a long time coming. Most people, after all, can't say they married the person they had a crush on in fourth grade. Most poeple can't say that people argue about who REALLY got them together - and who can say, really, because they met in the fourth grade - thirteen years ago. One account is that the older sisters were the masterminds, because they were good friends and, in their high school logic, wanted a way to become SISTERS FOREVER. The best way they could think of to do it was to make their younger siblings get married - but they should "wait until they're in high school, because then it'll last." It was another person who actually confirmed that each of them liked the other. Personally, I think it was whoever asked the groom to dog-sit when he was in middle school - because nothing is more casually romantic than saying, "hey, do you wanna feed my neighbor's dog with me sometime?"
The wedding itself was nice. The ceremony barely lasted 30 minutes, which was a pretty good amount of time. At the reception, there was a candy bar - not as in 'one singular Hershey bar,' but as in 'a table full of candy.' And it was great. Later in the reception, the flower toss resulted in the flowers landing near my feet. I picked them up, and then passed them off to the five-year-old in the crowd. Why? She wanted them, and she was far less likely to shove them into a suitcase twelve hours later and leave them to die, resulting in nothing but sad memories, laundry that no longer needs to smell good, and a lot of leaves and dried pollen in her clothing.
Also, had I kept them, there might be some more pressure on me for the next family wedding. See, the last wedding I went to was that of the bride's older sister. I caught the bouquet then, too. If word got around that I got the flowers at this wedding, then I would be expected to get them at the wedding of the bride's younger sister as well. I don't want that sort of pressure. I also don't want to be expected to get married before I've traveled the world at least twice.
But HTML code is not what I'm trying to talk about today. I'm here to talk about WEDDINGS! (and by WEDDINGS, I mean the wedding I went to this weekend). It was my cousin getting married, and it was something that has been a long time coming. Most people, after all, can't say they married the person they had a crush on in fourth grade. Most poeple can't say that people argue about who REALLY got them together - and who can say, really, because they met in the fourth grade - thirteen years ago. One account is that the older sisters were the masterminds, because they were good friends and, in their high school logic, wanted a way to become SISTERS FOREVER. The best way they could think of to do it was to make their younger siblings get married - but they should "wait until they're in high school, because then it'll last." It was another person who actually confirmed that each of them liked the other. Personally, I think it was whoever asked the groom to dog-sit when he was in middle school - because nothing is more casually romantic than saying, "hey, do you wanna feed my neighbor's dog with me sometime?"
The wedding itself was nice. The ceremony barely lasted 30 minutes, which was a pretty good amount of time. At the reception, there was a candy bar - not as in 'one singular Hershey bar,' but as in 'a table full of candy.' And it was great. Later in the reception, the flower toss resulted in the flowers landing near my feet. I picked them up, and then passed them off to the five-year-old in the crowd. Why? She wanted them, and she was far less likely to shove them into a suitcase twelve hours later and leave them to die, resulting in nothing but sad memories, laundry that no longer needs to smell good, and a lot of leaves and dried pollen in her clothing.
Also, had I kept them, there might be some more pressure on me for the next family wedding. See, the last wedding I went to was that of the bride's older sister. I caught the bouquet then, too. If word got around that I got the flowers at this wedding, then I would be expected to get them at the wedding of the bride's younger sister as well. I don't want that sort of pressure. I also don't want to be expected to get married before I've traveled the world at least twice.
Friday, March 14, 2014
In an airport
Well, here I am, sitting in an airport, waiting for a flight to Florida for my cousin's wedding. This is my first time flying alone, so this has been kind of an adventure - if only for the fact that the route from school to the airport - a new way for both my ride and myself - was full of the perils of going on a left exit and then a right exit.
I think the part I was most nervous about was security. Not for any major reason - well, maybe because I hardly look like the photo on my driver's license anymore, so they might have gotten suspicious. That's not the reason I was a little nervous - it was because I was unsure how I would explain my knitting.
Most of the time I don't get nervous about taking my knitting on planes anymore - security issues with needles have been relaxed in recent years. But I'm not familiar with this airport, and I'm not sure how strict they'd be. If they pulled out my knitting, what would I say?
"What is this?"
"… my math homework…"
"How is this mathematical?"
"… um… it's a 3-D representation of a concept in non-Euclidian geometry?"
I feel like that answer would either merit me leaving or more security getting called. Or my math homework getting confiscated. Or me possibly missing my flight as I bungle an explanation on what non-Euclidian geometry is and why I am knitting it.
Anyway, boarding is soon, so I'm out. Farewell.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
a late post
Yes, I know... I was supposed to post yesterday... and I didn't... sorry...
That was partially due to stress and partially due to not having anything to write about. Today, however, thanks to the magic of YouTube, I have an idea!
There's a YouTube channel called The Art Assignment. What happens is that every week, there will be a new art assignment from artists around the country - professional artists with some cool story to go along with the challenge. The first episode was a challenge to meet in the middle. I tried to upload the video for you, but Blogger seems to dislike the idea that iPhones can take videos.
That was partially due to stress and partially due to not having anything to write about. Today, however, thanks to the magic of YouTube, I have an idea!
There's a YouTube channel called The Art Assignment. What happens is that every week, there will be a new art assignment from artists around the country - professional artists with some cool story to go along with the challenge. The first episode was a challenge to meet in the middle. I tried to upload the video for you, but Blogger seems to dislike the idea that iPhones can take videos.
Right, well, for lack of a better idea, that's what I have for you this time. Next time, I may or may have a video for you again. I may also have a post about marriage. Or about weddings. Or about boyfriends. GUESS WHO'S GETTING MARRIED? (If you guessed The Writer of the Blog... you're wrong). My boyfriend visited over the weekend, but my cousin is getting married this coming weekend. HUZZAH!
Friday, March 7, 2014
On Lent
So this is the first Friday of Lent. So far, it's going pretty well, I think. I've run into a roadblock, though. Fortunately, it's only today (hopefully).
So one of my resolutions is to read the Bible a bit every day. This has been going as well as can be expected, I think. I normally read before I go to bed, and last night was no different. I did my read-then-pray/meditate shindig, and I put my bible in this bag that hangs from a device I use as a coat rack/ place-to-hold-bags-that-hold-books-because-my-bed-is-lofted. Well, that bag is now missing. I'm not sure where it went, but I know that it is no longer hanging up on the coat-rack-thing. I haven't taken it out anywhere, because I'm putting some fraternity letters on it but it's not done yet. Hopefully it'll turn up, but this is going to put me back a few days on devotions if it keeps up. (also, I won't have a snazzy new bag, but that's not the point).
Other Lent-related things are going pretty well. So far, I have succeeded in avoiding mindless games - and, as I expected, I am suddenly finding myself with a whole bunch of free time. (I'm still procrastinating sometimes, but it's productive procrastination. I'm not staring blankly at a screen, I'm crocheting and knitting while watching YouTube). I'm frequently the sort of person who says 'only five more minutes...' and winds up taking an hour, and the lack of games to provoke that has helped me realize that.
I've also been writing a little bit more as well. Not a lot - I've only done one creative thing and two journal entries since Lent began - but I did write a really weird contextual back story for the lyrics of "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles. It involves serial killers with face fetishes and church-based bounty hunters. (I didn't say that it was good, I just said it happened).
Well, those are all the updates I have for this week. Will write again on Monday.
So one of my resolutions is to read the Bible a bit every day. This has been going as well as can be expected, I think. I normally read before I go to bed, and last night was no different. I did my read-then-pray/meditate shindig, and I put my bible in this bag that hangs from a device I use as a coat rack/ place-to-hold-bags-that-hold-books-because-my-bed-is-lofted. Well, that bag is now missing. I'm not sure where it went, but I know that it is no longer hanging up on the coat-rack-thing. I haven't taken it out anywhere, because I'm putting some fraternity letters on it but it's not done yet. Hopefully it'll turn up, but this is going to put me back a few days on devotions if it keeps up. (also, I won't have a snazzy new bag, but that's not the point).
Other Lent-related things are going pretty well. So far, I have succeeded in avoiding mindless games - and, as I expected, I am suddenly finding myself with a whole bunch of free time. (I'm still procrastinating sometimes, but it's productive procrastination. I'm not staring blankly at a screen, I'm crocheting and knitting while watching YouTube). I'm frequently the sort of person who says 'only five more minutes...' and winds up taking an hour, and the lack of games to provoke that has helped me realize that.
I've also been writing a little bit more as well. Not a lot - I've only done one creative thing and two journal entries since Lent began - but I did write a really weird contextual back story for the lyrics of "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles. It involves serial killers with face fetishes and church-based bounty hunters. (I didn't say that it was good, I just said it happened).
Well, those are all the updates I have for this week. Will write again on Monday.
Monday, March 3, 2014
On Mondays
I don't mind Mondays. I've got an afternoon of decent length, but it's definitively no longer the weekend. Also, when you have to do laundry on a Monday, it's not a good day. (even though we had a snow day today, it still wound up being kind of lousy, because my laundry hampers broke, and I wound up not drying my extra set of sheets because only 1 handle of the 4 total actually functions. Also, homework).
I do, however, like snow days. Well, not 'snow days,' necessarily. I like morning delays. I don't have my 8:00 or my 10:00 tomorrow (unfortunately, the latter is King Arthur, but I hadn't finished the reading... but all motivation for that finished when I learned it was canceled), so I'm definitely going to hang out with people after I finish this. I know that it's 10:15, almost, and, if I want to keep something of a regular sleep cycle, I should be going to bed sooner rather than later, but I'm still going to wake up before 8:00 tomorrow to finish my character sheet for D&D.
One thing I've noticed in college is that I've opened up more to the idea that joining friends after 10:00 PM is perfectly acceptable. I know that all the 'cool kids' in high school didn't actually show up to an 8:00 dance until 9:30, but this is more casual than that. I'm bringing some crafting stuff, for example, and hoping for the best. (I'm actually going to have to hope for the best, because, now that I think about it, it might not be the greatest idea I've ever had).
I know this is a post that is covering a lot of topics all at once (I may be trying to avoid last week's Lazy Post again), but Lent begins on Wednesday. I haven't figured out what I'm giving up for Lent yet (or taking on, for that matter), but I'm considering giving up dumb internet games and taking on writing and/ or Bible reading and/ or gym time. I think the first step is to give up the dumb flash games, though, because they're pretty much the source of all my procrastination time thus far in the semester. I think that, once I stop playing those dumb games, I'll actually be able to commit to other things in my life that demand greater importance. I think, at its heart, that's what Lent is about - as people on the Internet so rightly point out, giving up chocolate doesn't necessarily make you a better person. The point is not necessarily to become a better person - that's hopefully just a side effect. I think the point of Lent is to commit to doing something that will bring you closer to God (or an ideal that you hold dear). Is that really so bad?
I do, however, like snow days. Well, not 'snow days,' necessarily. I like morning delays. I don't have my 8:00 or my 10:00 tomorrow (unfortunately, the latter is King Arthur, but I hadn't finished the reading... but all motivation for that finished when I learned it was canceled), so I'm definitely going to hang out with people after I finish this. I know that it's 10:15, almost, and, if I want to keep something of a regular sleep cycle, I should be going to bed sooner rather than later, but I'm still going to wake up before 8:00 tomorrow to finish my character sheet for D&D.
One thing I've noticed in college is that I've opened up more to the idea that joining friends after 10:00 PM is perfectly acceptable. I know that all the 'cool kids' in high school didn't actually show up to an 8:00 dance until 9:30, but this is more casual than that. I'm bringing some crafting stuff, for example, and hoping for the best. (I'm actually going to have to hope for the best, because, now that I think about it, it might not be the greatest idea I've ever had).
I know this is a post that is covering a lot of topics all at once (I may be trying to avoid last week's Lazy Post again), but Lent begins on Wednesday. I haven't figured out what I'm giving up for Lent yet (or taking on, for that matter), but I'm considering giving up dumb internet games and taking on writing and/ or Bible reading and/ or gym time. I think the first step is to give up the dumb flash games, though, because they're pretty much the source of all my procrastination time thus far in the semester. I think that, once I stop playing those dumb games, I'll actually be able to commit to other things in my life that demand greater importance. I think, at its heart, that's what Lent is about - as people on the Internet so rightly point out, giving up chocolate doesn't necessarily make you a better person. The point is not necessarily to become a better person - that's hopefully just a side effect. I think the point of Lent is to commit to doing something that will bring you closer to God (or an ideal that you hold dear). Is that really so bad?
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