Procrastinating

Now at Day 3 of classes my vigor has been replaced by laziness. It's not that I don't feel like I did in my previous post, I still do. But all those sayings like 'old habits are hard to quit' and 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks' are proving to be entirely accurate. I don't have any class on Thursday, and because I don't have class on Thursday I can't help but procrastinate today. Instead of doing any work, I lazed around because I knew I had another day to do stuff. I sit here filling guilty because I know I could be much farther ahead and free up more time for myself on the weekend, but instead, I'm procrastinating. I made a really good dinner, I read a book, and now... I'm making a Blog entry.

All this distraction got me to thinking about procrastinating and the way we tend to rationalize certain activities as necessary, so we don't feel bad about doing them, instead of what we are supposed to be doing. The best example would be eating. Today, I made a dish I'd never made before from scratch. I made a delicious pasta dish, which with the exception of the noodles, was all hand done. It was delicious and very filling... but the whole time I couldn't sneak the suspicion that I was creating this marvelous dish to avoid the work I should be doing. But because 'I had to eat' that it was okay not to be doing my work.

When I think about....It kind of gives my dinner a dirty smear.