Monday, 13 June 2016

Procrastination

You are sitting at your desk, sipping a hot cup of tea (carefully, so as not to burn your tongue), revising for an examination. You need to check an answer for one of your past papers, so you open your laptop for just a brief moment. You find the answer and are about to close your laptop, when you are suddenly unable to do so. An irrepressible desire to check your social media overwhelms you and you say to yourself: "Just 10 minutes...".
Half an hour later, you are still browsing the depths of the Internet and yet you continue to tell yourself: "After I have read/watched this, I'll get back to work...". Instead, you click on another link.

After an hour, or however long you end up procrastinating, you realise how much time you have indeed wasted. You are ashamed of your actions and are adamant to change.

Unfortunately, it is a habit that is admittedly difficult to break and it requires a lot of self-control (which I seem to lack in) to stop yourself from spending your time in a non-productive manner.
As it is currently exam season, it is all the more important to stay focused - for that reason, I deactivated all of my social media accounts (it was indeed difficult to part with them) and installed a Chrome web extension which can block certain websites and set a maximum time limit you can spend on all of them in one day (10 minutes in my case). Sadly, I have found Google Chrome's Incognito Mode to be quite the enemy as the web extension doesn't work on it.

However, procrastination does not always come in digital form.
Recently, baking has become one of my forms of procrastination - I have been inspired to try this whole new range of vegan cake recipes and they are absolutely delicious! Now, baking has always been an enjoyable experience for me (don't get me wrong!), but it indisputably counts as procrastination! When baking, I typically have my music blaring through the speakers in the living room and dance along to it whilst stirring ingredients together. I find it so refreshing and it helps relieve stress - and you have food to nibble on later! It is also a useful alternative to napping, which I am also guilty of. I really should break this habit otherwise my family and I will look like potatoes on the beach this summer...

Lately, I've also been going on long, brisk walks around the neighbourhood as a form of procrastination. An hour or more of walking through the area, with my headphones in, seems to have a therapeutic effect and I find it ideal whenever I wish to get away from the place I call home - whether it is to get away from my family for an hour or so, to clear my thoughts or to refresh my mind after losing concentration. I can get lost in my imagination and think about anything but exams, whilst fitting in some exercise into my daily routine - perfect! When I get back home, I feel so much more energetic and my work ethic and productivity improves, meaning I get more work done and I feel better about myself by the end of the day.
Even this is me procrastinating, so I will cease nattering on about procrastination whilst procrastinating and will leave you to procrastinate in your own time.

What do you do to procrastinate? Comment below if you do the aforementioned forms of procrastination or if you have any other forms that I do not know of!

 Blog you later!
Tiger x
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Saturday, 22 August 2015

Awkwardness

Do you ever laugh in awkward situations? Or, at the very least, emit a stifled noise that partially resembles rhythmical and audible contractions of your diaphragm?

Join the club.

To be honest, I think I am generally awkward.

I seem to fit the job description of a stereotypical nerd. When I feel inspired to tell a joke to my friends, the joke doesn't seem to make their eyes bright with amusement, happiness and joy. Instead, the joke is met with death glares and remarks along the lines of 'Are you serious?', 'I have absolutely no idea about what you are talking about' or 'Not another one of your jokes!'.

I believe the implication here is that my jokes are absolutely terrible.

However, I believe they do not appreciate my love for the scientific, mathematical or even linguistic approach to joking around. They prefer joking about chickens and knocking on doors than attempting to utilise the plethora of jokes that exist regarding reality.

I mean - why would a chicken feel the need to cross a road in the first place?

Also, why would you ask 'Who's there?' when someone knocks at the door when you can just look through the small peephole that gives you a fish-eye perspective of the person standing outside? Even without a peephole, I'm sure modern technology is advanced enough to show you a live feed of who is outside. Moreover, can they not use the doorbell rather than brutally tapping their knuckles against wood? Poor door.

Am I over-analysing the jokes? Probably. Should I do that? Depends on the situation.

Do you question the logic of jokes from time to time? I can assure you that I do, but I can suggest one thing: don't express that you question joke logic when someone is telling you a joke - your demise is likely to ensue. Socially, I mean.

I suppose my moral for you is: feel free to tell a more intellectual joke every now and then, but ensure that they don't get wasted on people who will not appreciate them.

In case you were wondering as to what sort of jokes I have told, I'll give you some of my favourites:

Computer programmers don't byte
They just nibble a bit.

There's a band called 1023MB
They haven't got any gigs yet!

There are two cats on a sloped roof. Which one slides off first?
The one with the lowest mew!

There's no harm in invoking an intellectual challenge from time to time... Right?

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