Procrastination.

I am a terrible procrastinator. When it comes to homework or any other task, I will do anything to put off doing it, until the last minute that is. Why? I have no idea. I think it is some idea that I do not like “having” to do something, I rather do things on my own, things I choose to do. I know that’s awful to say, but hey, I’m not going to lie about it.

When it comes to a eight page paper, and it’s the day before its due, I will sit at my desk and stare at my computer forever. Then when I get frustrated because I can’t think of a good way to start, I will get up and do something else. For instance, I tend to clean a lot when I procrastinate. I will clean my room, clean the bathroom, or sometimes clean things that don’t need to be clean, like my books. (Weird I know).

If I don’t clean, or even sometimes after I clean when I should be typing that eight page paper, I eat. I will eat chips, cookies, sunflower seeds, or drink coffee to hopefully wake my brain up, which with my luck never works. I will stroll around the room, while eating, and look for other things to clean. Then after I get bored from that, I will force myself to sit down and begin to write. Then when I need a break I will pop up my Facebook, check out what’s on the news feed, listen to some music, look up more music, chat with some friends, then write again.

What will start at about 11am won’t be finished until about 3am. That’s not because I don’t like to write, but it’s mainly because I didn’t get to choose what I was writing about, and I felt as though I had more important things to do, like clean and eat. How dumb! To be honest, I signed in to write a blog, stared at my computer, got up and put away my shoes, grabbed a bag of pretzels and realized I was procrastinating. Then it hit me, that would be a perfect thing to blog about.