Trying to Conquer the Beast

So, I know it’s been forever since I posted here. It has been forever because I have been trying to conquer my own problems with procrastination, with middling to large success. I have done two things:

1. I started using Google Feed Reader. Now, I know that this is usually a thing that wastes MORE time, rather than less, but in my case, it’s really cut down on the amount of time that I’ve been spending checking and re-checking websites looking to see if they’ve updated. Now I just check the feed, which is just one website, and therefore eats much less time.
2. I’ve given up gossip blogs cold-turkey. I know. I’m impressed with me too. Not a single viewing of either of my twin gossip obsessions since I started this fast, lo these…2 weeks ago.

I haven’t, however, given up internet TV or near-constant music listening. Let’s not go crazy all at once. But so far, it’s working. I’m shockingly on top of my work and my reading, and I don’t think that the internet celebrities have missed my obsessive attention to their social lives one bit.

Is this a totally boring revelation for you guys? Yes.

I’ll be back in the next couple of days with something interesting.

my very important life

I never feel like I have enough time to do everything. There’s always reading, or writing, or thinking, or applying to jobs to be done, and I never, ever have enough time to do it all. And this would probably be reasonable, considering that I’m a Stanford junior without a summer job (yet) who is taking (or plans to take) 18 units, mostly of paper-writing.

It would be reasonable, if it were at all true.

I spend an incredible amount of time convincing myself that I am working, or about to work, or taking a valuable break from work, when I am actually reading a list of emails from people’s moms, keeping up with Lena Chen’s tumblr (why? no one knows. not even me.),  and looking at pictures of dubious reality stars crying.

WHY?

Why do I do these things? I mean, when I ask myself, “self, would you rather read a good poem or a novel OR would you rather look at Heidi Montag cry fake tears on a sidewalk somewhere?” the answer is almost ALWAYS “I would rather read something of value.” But do I go do that? No. No, I read emails FROM OTHER PEOPLE’S MOTHERS instead.

If I could solve procrastination, I could solve everything.