Go to work already!

Current mood: weary amusement at my procrastination techniques

I would like to be the kind of person who doesn't procrastinate. To go with my schoolgirlish, first-one-to-shoot-her-hand-into-the-air, continually-asking-random-questions classroom manner, I really should be the kind of person who types up all the assignments a couple of days in advance. If you're going to be that irritating, you should at least be calm, controlled, and prepared, right? If only...then my term paper would already be written. Sigh.

It's fairly indicative of my particular pathology that I generally think of school as fun. WTF you say? Seriously, it's one of the things I choose to do for "entertainment," so my brain doesn't atrophy from all the TV I watch. But actually, classes are fun, especially when I get to verbally shoot people off their soapboxes (environmental, water quality, or resource management-related courses seem to attract as many self-righteous, leftist howler monkeys as you could possibly ask for). Not that I actually disagree with them, necessarily, but often their arguments can be so...unfocused and unpolished *delicate sneer*. (And not that I'm any good as a debater. In fact, I have a friend that would laugh himself sick if I claimed to be adept at presenting and winning an argument - but even I can hear when something is utter cr*p, as long as it doesn't come from me.) Usually someone whines about the president or mumbles something about the "end of the world." I get enough of that at home, so we really don't need to be speculating about the age of the ants and cockroaches in my class, thank you very much.

So...many journal articles and much less-fun typing awaits. (Classes are fun, classes are fun, classes are fun...please, tell me why I thought that this would be fun??!! OK, classes can be amusing, but homework s*cks!!!!) I hope others are making much better use of their weekends.