March 21: It Can Wait

First of, I pose you a grammatical question. In terms of a strike such as the one Dalhousie is currently “enjoying”, what is the past tense? For strike, as in to hit, the past tense is struck. However, that doesn't quite sound right in this context — “the professors have struck again” sounds like a teaser for a bad horror movie. It's just something you to think about.

So, the strike rolls onward, not unlike a rather large boulder tumbling down a gentle inclining, squishing students as it goes. I'm getting very tired of sitting around all day, losing $220 a week for no good. On the bonus side, I've finally caught up on that sleep I lost sometime between September and now, and I've gotten a lot of time to program (I'm working on a video game, in case you wondered) and learn new geek stuff. But geek chique aside, the strike sucks.

It is absolutely impossible to work during a strike! I don't know why, but for some reason, motivation just evaporates. Sure, I've got a computer science assignment due first day back. Philosophy test? No problem. Physics assignment? Pish. Math assignment? Fwa. Several thousand word english essay? It can wait!

I don't know what's wrong with me. Not that he is a good indication of “normal” (or “motivated” for that matter), but Mike is the same way. I'd rather sit in my living room watching Magnum PI and Murder She Wrote. Even watching Jenny Jones is better than tackling my four-hundred pound bookbag.

I think procrastination was the first word I learned. Well, not really - I think it was “no” because I didn't like ANYTHING as a child, but that's not the point. Procrastination has made me produce some impressive things at the last minute. However, I've been burned just as many times by it, and yet I don't learn my lesson. I can see myself as a middle-aged man in the suburbs, looking at an unmowed lawn and sitting in a hammock. Just great. What a future.

Not.
  • Written on 21 March 2002 & posted at 06:35 PM.
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