29 November 2006

Graphing Procrastination


I thought I was the only one to procrastinate. Here in this graphic we have the graphic representation of procrastination in the form of visits to my blog (Graphic from Google Analytics). Tuesday 21 November 2006 AD, last day of class, werfs are furiously finishing projects that they really want to procrastinate. Most likely they already read the Board (if they didn't already stay up late into the night to see the new ones come out), so they are trying to find another outlet for their procrastinational endeavors. Lo and behold they find my blog (nothing but a cheap knock off of the Board if that isn't too pretentious) and spend a few minutes reading about how wonderful the Board really is. Now moving on to Wed 22 November 2006 AD...Werfs are now traveling to, or already with, family. Their homework is far behind them, they no longer have the need to procrastinate as their world is now fill with fun, games, and food. Thus for the Holidays my blog is obsolete; and rightly so. Over the Holiday werfs are concerned about projects being due, yet in lieu of the enjoyment of the festivities and more immediate pressures, homework gets pushed and pushed, until the Holiday is over. Then on Monday 27 November 2006 AD all of a sudden werf is confronted with all of werf's back homework that has been put off. Werf works doggedly...yet it really isn't due until the end of the week...or tomorrow...werf then treats werfself to a little procrastinatory party. But wait werf already read the Board this morning, so werf looks for substitute methods to waste time. Thus we see a dip in the graph where the procrastination is the lowest. I guess that means I can use my blog as a procrastination detector, as I have a serious problem with procrastination. I never really think I am procrastinating; I am just doing the absolute essentials such as, playing Go online, reading the Board often (as in frequently), watching the weather, writing this blog, think of all the beautiful ways in which the Board is an integral and mysteriously alluring part of the cosmos, check my e-mail about 50 times a day (and find nothing), pretend that I am going to make cookies then change my mind at the last possible moment, think of ways that I could discover more Board writer identities, use stumbleupon, play flash games with no purpose for hours on end, go back to the Board, try to think of a really interesting question while reading the archives to make sure it hasn't been asked, crochet new additions to my over-the-helmet beanie, read comics about Go, wonder what it would be like to have a person from the past mysteriously start living in your head (yeah...weird), writing this list...need I go on? The problem is I don't realize that I am procrastinating until several hours have been wasted because all of these items are so essential to daily living. Now I have a foolproof Procrastination detector, the only problem is...now I am going to have to start doing my work. Blast! I guess I will go read the Board really quick before I start working because today looks like it is going to be a procrastinatory one.

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