Nov 28, 2004

Procrastination: Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Soho

I have only one week to go before finals, and I'm sitting here at the library, unable to concentrate, unable to study, unable to pay attention to anything! One week and here I am doing nothing! Nothing!

I don't know what's wrong with me. I worked for 8 solid hours on Wednesday and I got a lot done, but after I took Thursday and Friday off I can't work. I tried yesterday and I studied for a few hours, but then the library closed so I was forced to leave. Then I went to Beaners with Jeremy and we proceeded to not study. We got in a big debate about jobs and mediocrity and objectivity and did not study. Then I couldn't study because of the god-awful wailing from the speakers that was "allegedly" Irish folk music. It sounded like a really swiftly played broken fiddle. It was horrible. Then Beaners closed and I was forced to go elsewhere but I didn't study at home or elsewhere. I ended up going to Meijer. I found a boombox for $11.47 that I'm going to use in my bathroom or something. I don't know. It was like $20 off and I've been looking for one for my bathroom.

So there is a guy that randomly walked up to me a minute ago and asked if I knew how to make a website. I didn't want to be mean, but I didn't want to put myself out there, because that seems like it might take a while. I'm trying to pretend to study here! So I said I didn't know. And I might not know depending on what he meant. Do I know how to use frontpage? Code in html and xml and css and java and other webby languages? Do I know how to publish? It seemed like a very complicated question to ask a stranger. I should walk up to people and ask them "Can you explain to me the reasons for dischord in the middle east? That's ok I have all day." or "Do you know how the Krebs Cycle works in cellular respiration?" If it was just the time, I would have told him.

And all the lawyers who visit the library (like the guy who asked me about web pages) have problems with their backs. It's weird. Please insert a lawyer joke if you wish.

Well, I've effectively wasted 5 minutes. I'm debating if I should just give up, do something fun, get it out of my system, and then study for three solid hours instead of wasting 10. What's a boy to do?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

My biggest fear is finishing law school and becoming the lawyer that asked you how to make a website. Why is it that ALL of the lawyers here talk to themselves far louder than I hold normal conversations with actual people? I also fear that I will begin to smell like them, they all have a distictly spicy/moldy scent. Although it could just be the library...
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Anonymous said...

I can't study either! I sit down to study and just think of all I have to know and I can't concentrate at all and it's just not good. Quite a deal on your $11.47 boombox ;)

Anonymous said...

See, we should all stop studying. It's pointless. Let's just get drunk instead :)