Procrastination

...is eating my soul.

Yesterday I got quite enough stuff done, especially for art history, but I still didn't finish all the stuff I'm supposed to turn in tomorrow, especially a miserable lab report for astro. I'm working on the intro for that now, finally, but all too soon it will be dinner time, which always breaks up my mojo. Also, I'm clearly not working very hard on it, since the internet is open and rocking on my computer and I'm currently listening to George R.R. Martin (yup, the author of ASoIaF--notice a theme here in the past week?) talk about world building and the laws of his fantasy worlds, from an interview back in 2007. Clearly productivity is my thing right now. Fortunately, the interview is starting to bore me, so I think I can cut it out early (it's like an hour long and I've been listening for a good 45 minutes now) and throw on some music and get my fingers rocking on my keyboard for something other than blogging.

See, I just x-ed out of the interview. Destroyed that tab! And started blasting some Chicago from YouTube. Listening to music on YouTube isn't the best for creative projects, since unless I have the foresight to create a playlist, I have to keep manually replaying the songs or finding new ones every, oh, four to five minutes, so that's a mojo breaker. And yet I'm not really feeling any of the songs in my iTunes library right now. Maybe some Earth, Wind and Fire will do. I like pretty vigorous music while writing, although not too vigorous or else I'll just start bobbing around my room like a lunatic, and that's not productive, either. Maybe some Beatles, too, would work, although I only have The White Album and I don't know that music so well yet, and it's hard to write to music you don't already have committed to memory because then instead of writing you're focusing part of your mind on the lyrics. And that's never useful.

Clearly I'm perfectly able to write right now; I just wrote all this, after all. And I've done a lot of work this weekend, most of which is due Tuesday. I just can't seem to do what's actually the most urgent stuff (lab report, finishing astro problem set) this weekend. Or ever, really.

Okay, iTunes. Let's do this.