In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about!
One of the things you might not know [...]
Posts filed in Procrastination
The art of doing something else than what you should be doing. Interestingly enough, it’s what I’m doing at the moment. You see, I should be reading for a twelve-page political science paper due for delivery in two days, but instead, I’m updating the category descriptions here at my blog. A perfect example of procrastination.
A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!
Angel: After the Fall, issues 3-5
I’ve been doing a lot of nothing lately. In fact, I’ve been doing so much nothing that I’ven’t even read the last three (or four, now, I guess) issues of After the Fall. Luckily, I was able to rectify this last night, and man, am I glad I did.
As frustrating as it is to read [...]
Oh. My. Fucking. Gods.
I just found out that there exists a British television show from 1990 where Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry plays the parts of P.G. Wodehouse’s Wooster and Jeeves. Naturally, all my viewing plans and schedules have been postponed until I’ve downloaded and watched all four seasons.
Not that that means much — I’ve hardly watched any [...]
This does not bode well…
I was in Molde yesterday, to have dinner with a buddy of mine from high school, and somehow at least two thirds of the four hours we spent together were spent talking about World of Warcraft, which said buddy, like so many others, had been pretty much addicted by the last couple of years. Personally, [...]
Curses! Or constructing next term’s schedule
I checked my course registration page at NTNU (ooh!) about an hour ago, and much to my delight I discovered that I’ve been registered for not two but three courses this spring, and that these three combined fill my required term quota of 30 study points.
English Linguistics gives me 7,5 points if I pass it; [...]
New… thingy, let’s call it a “quasi-daily”, or whatever.
For the past two or three years, I’ve been considering to make a thread at one of the forums I hang at, a thread called “What I learned today”. In case some of you think that’s a cool acronym or something, let me assure you it’s not. I’d simply be a thread where people could [...]
Valentine
Heh, one of my flatmates and I just spent the last couple of hours taking cheap shots at Valentine, a rather silly slasher movie from 2001.
A bunch of snotty girls have picked on a nerd all through elementary school, until they in 9th grade get the kid sent away to a mental institution by claiming [...]
Norske språklyder
Jeg kan hverken fatte eller begripe at Gudene har sett med slik velvilje på meg, og latt noen skape dette fantastiske programmet, utelukkende for min convenience. Jeg føler meg som universets navle. Eller, navler er egentlig ikke så jævla tøffe. La oss gå for øyesten.
Ja, øyesten høres bedre ut. (Ikke dermed sagt at det er [...]
Scrubs, season 5
Yeah, yeah, I know: they’re occasionally repeating the same jokes, and the whole concept might be getting a tad tired.
But I still love it. I still think it’s fun to watch the Janitor torment JD, I still laugh when Turk tries to stand up to Carla, I still pity JD one moment only to hate [...]
Second day of work…
… and I’ve already been exhausted for one day, even though I haven’t really started on the tasks that actually require an effort. Damn, but I wish my sister had still been here to take care of all this pre-season stress…
Oh well. I might try to convince myself that with all this work, [...]
Doctor Who 2005
One of my flatmates claimed that the series featuring Christopher Eccleston as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, wasn’t all that bad. So now I’ve watched the first episode of this thing — my first encounter with Doctor Who since I accidentally came across an episode from the 70s, a couple of years ago.
And my [...]
Seeing Red: A Case in the Study of Joss Whedon, Sadistic Genious
This has got to be one of the best worst minutes of television I have ever seen. Observe, if you will, these four moments:
1. Bliss, as Buffy and Xander make up and embrace.
2. Dread, as Warren appears, toting a gun.
3. Grief, and/or anguish, as a stray bullet from Warren’s gun penetrates Tara’s chest, and her [...]
I Got Mail Today…
A letter, in fact. From the Norwegian conscription agency, which wants me to come and spend a year of my life in their service, starting April 2008. Apparently, if I choose to go — something I most definitely won’t — I’ll serve in some kind of anti-aircraft artillery battalion.
Luckily, they want me relatively late, so [...]
That’s it, then.
There’s dust on your guitar, you fuck, and it’s all your fault…
In four days, I am supposed to hand in a 25 pages long project paper in the pol.sci. course I’m taking. However, being a lazy, useless slob, I haven’t even begun reading for it yet. I tried to start working on it today, but [...]
Phew.
WARNING! This post contains what most people would consider to be TMI. Consider yourself warned. The author will not take responsibility for disturbing imagery that might appear in your minds if you read on.
That’s gotta be one of the hardest papers I’ve ever written. Sure, the theory and the empirics was child’s play, eight pages [...]
“Well, then, maybe if it’s someone you care fo-” — AS5×7 Lineage
Oh man, this has got to be one of the two or three best episodes of “Angel”.
First of all, it’s directly painful to watch, because you have so much sympathy for Wesley. He tries incredibly hard to make his dad proud of him, and he hardly gets anything but scorn in return. He is also [...]
I’m feeling optimistic
It is now, let’s see, a little more than 38 hours until my term paper in “Social Scientific Method” is due, and I feel I’m on course. Even though it’s only eight hours or so since I started working on it.
Because today I flipped through a couple of term papers in this course from the [...]
2007-03-12 — Quote of the Day
“For thousands of years our ancestors have refined the noble art of procrastination. Today, with new IT-technology, we find even more ways of postponement. From hacking governmental databases to simply playing solitaire, we guarantee the procrastinator a multi-faceted experience and improvement of his procrastinating-repertoire.
Come join the future - in just five more minutes.”
- Loki
If there is a God of procrastination…
So. Five days left till the term paper in “Social scientific method” is due. And I was supposed to have started working on it today. But what happened?
Well, I sat down to begin reading some empirics about gender and wage levels and stuff. I think I read perhaps a page or two, but unfortunately I [...]
Oh man…
I just watched a couple of minutes of a “60 Minutes” program, where they interviewed Bill O’Reilley (or however in Hel it’s spelled). And even though the interviewer was so critical as to almost be refered to as “hostile”, and in spite of O’Reilley’s obvious vanity and arrogance, the interview managed to create some sympathy [...]
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