slackering

I have, once again, wasted a large percentage of my day in little things that didn't need doing. Or at least should not have been a priority above homework. School is, after all, my supposed main activity at this time. It is certainly the one that I have invested the most money in and the one from which I am to expect the most benefit (although I hear it may be an asset to be good at facebook for certain jobs...). So why am I here on my blog? After all, it is another activity that falls in the category of lesser-activity or time-waster when I am faced in comparison with several things that I really should do before I enter my Latin class tomorrow (such as prepare the passage we'll be translating and maybe at least read the article that I am supposed to be presenting to the class).

I would wish that I could either get my priorities straight and buckle down to my work (in which case it would probably be done fairly quickly and easily) or I would be able to take the time I waste in stalling tactics and apply it to some fun activity during which I would have no qualms as to what I should be doing at that time instead of exactly what I am doing.

The problem is that I have accustomed myself to living with that nagging voice. In all reality, I don't have to read the textbooks in several of my classes in order to do well in the course. The readings are a waste of time when I am a stickler for going to class and taking good notes. I am not advocating not reading the readings for all classes, I find that one has to test the waters and see how much the Prof relies on the text (and if one's read such stuff before). So a certain amount of incompletion of the assigned work is quite acceptable. I don't mean to sound arrogant but I think that since different people learn differently the Prof has to put as part of the course a variety of broad helps to learning not all of which are essential. Or perhaps I just happened to have taken bird courses so far. Who knows.

I'm too tired to figure out where I was going (or if I was going) with the preceeding paragraphs except something along the lines of I really shouldn't be on the computer at this time of night, let alone not having completed my assignments for tomorrow, let along not even working on said assignments yet...

Okay, I'm going.