The Procrastination Curse

The last time we spoke I was about to be thrown into the murky depths of exams. Fun fun fun. But it is now 3 months later and I feel it is time we got back together and had a good old natter about how things went, and indeed how things are going now. So let's dive in.

Exams were okay. Nothing spectacular, just okay. The simple fact of the matter is I could have done better. On the other had I can't really see myself doing any worse. It was average. So whilst telling fibs about revising didn't exactly benefit me, I don't think doing any more revision than what I ended up doing would have helped.

The fact of the matter is, if I do badly in any of my subjects, it wasn't my fault. You see examiners have this thing of getting rather bored with writing the same types of exam papers every year. So what they do is every so often, they take on a different approach to spice up their otherwise dull and futile lives. This year was one of those years where they tried to be a little bit too clever. The questions in many exam papers this year were highly unorthodox and unusually put to the point where even the person asking the question didn't understand it. How do I know this? Because 2011 saw more proven errors and trick questions in exam papers than ever before. So it wasn't just me not getting it.

Then exams ended. Wonderful! Celebration and joy!

Well actually no. You see, I met up with an old friend. Before the exams started I was getting to know a person called Mr Procrastination. He was an absolute bastard who distracted me from all my exam revision and made me do absolutely pointless things that didn't need doing, despite the number of times I told him I needed to revise. Mr Procrastination just kept on insisting that what he was making me do was a lot more entertaining.

By the time exam season had come to an end I thought that Mr Procrastination had popped off to live in the Bahamas or something. He deserved a break. He had been making every teenager in the country not revise for their exams so I imagined he'd be pretty tired out.

I was wrong. Ever since exam season finished, I have been persistently visited by Mr Procrastination and his good friend and colleague Mr Sitonyourarseallday.

This summer was meant to be full of productivity. I was going to start writing scripts again, I was going to do a billion and one films and I was even going to attempt some weight loss in time for starting a new school in September.

But Mr Procrastination and Mr Sitonyourarseallday insisted that I sat around and did nothing all the time. Which is why I am writing this blog entry now. You see I don't actually want to be doing this right now. I would much rather be editing the Space Station 5 II film which was shot before Mr Procrastination came to my house for a summer holiday. But the truth is that for some reason, I am being forced to write this blog entry because it was the only thing to do other than edit that film. And I want to edit the film. But Mr Procrastination thinks it is a very difficult job and doesn't know where I should start, whereas writing a blog is much easier, but is a lot less productive.

So there you have it. Procrastination is the thing that makes you do things you don't want to do instead of things you do want to do but require a little more effort. So if procrastination (who actually isn't a person but a state of mind) is stopping us from doing the things we do want to do, why don't we just ignore whatever procrastination says and do the productive things that we're meant to be doing?

And there we have a great big slobbery wet issue. If anyone can work out how procrastination can be stopped for good, not only will the world be a better place, but whoever works it out will get whatever prize they desire from me. Why am I able to make that offer? Well mainly because no-one will ever find the answer.

For the rest of eternity, humanity is gripped by this plague of not doing the things they actually want and need to do. How stupid is that?

Thanks procrastination, thanks a bunch.

Well now that my blog post for today is over, maybe I'll get on with editing Space Station 5 II... or maybe I'll arrange my DVD's in alphabetical order like Mr Procrastination is suggesting...