Procrastinating...

I am a student, therefore I procrastinate. I procrastinate, therefore I experience high stress. I experience high stress, therefore I try to avoid getting stressed, which then leads me back to procrastination.

A vicious semi-cycle, one that will only end if I could stop being a student, which I can't.

My geography final is at 7pm tonight, and wouldn't you know it, I started studying yesterday. And I hadn't read anything from the textbook since the midterm (that would be eleven chapters ago). I still haven't finished studying, but I'm using the excuse that I don't want a fried brain for the final, to take the time to post.

It also doesn't help that in approximately forty-four hours, I will be on a plane to Hawai'i. And that because the flight leaves in the morning (and none of my fellow travellers are morning people, I'm probably the closest thing to it), we will be staying overnight at the Fairmont Hotel located in the airport, which leaves me even less time to pack, and begins our trip fifteen hours earlier than if we didn't. I still have yet to buy shorts, tank tops, some unmentionables, bobby pins and a movie to watch on the plane (thank goodness for laptops!- Juno perhaps?). On the bright side, I DO have a bathing suit that I love, a make-up travel bag almost packed except for the everyday stuff, money converted into USD, the more dressy of my clothes laid out, manicure/pedicure and waxing done. Knowing that the trip will happen whether or not I study, and whether or not I fail is not much of an incentive to do anything but think about Hawai'i.

Hawai'i: must take surf lessons, must not drown, must tandem skydive, must not get a faulty parachute, must visit Polynesian Cultural Centre, must not act like a stupid tourist (I hate that!), must get a tan, must not burn, must relax, must not think about school, must get along with other travellers, must not trust everyone, must enjoy the delicious local food, must not gain weight.

Currently, I'm down 12.6 lbs.

Have you noticed, O reader, that this post is losing its cohesiveness, just because I don't really want to get back to studying? Ugh. I think every student who blogs, must have at least one post that is considering and lamenting the fallacies of and procrastination.

One more paragraph before I return to studying: it's a beautiful day, and I wish I could focus enough to allow myself to study outside. It's the first purely sunny day in a while, and I'm stuck inside the university library studying. There's about ten people in my line of sight from the window that are basking and studying in the sun. I am so jealous. It had better be sunny for the entire trip.