Get to work!
I’ve officially decided to stop goofing off, and I will give you a reason why.
Last night, I was working on a paper for Poetry about the poet E. E. Cummings. About all that I had left to do was write my bibliography, so I went to the Uni library home page and went to the bibliography format section. I went to the MLA format, then to the “print materials” section, and then I remembered that I hadn’t checked my e-mail at all that day.
Wanting desperately to fix that situation, I opened a new tab in Firefox and checked my e-mail. There wasn’t anything major, so I logged off and prepared to go back to my bibliography. But then it hit me — I hadn’t checked my gmail account!
When I opened that up, I saw a message saying that someone had written on my wall on Facebook — how exciting! I opened up Facebook and read the fairly inconsequential message. Then I edited my “favorite music” section. Then I looked at some other people’s photos that looked entertaining. They weren’t.
But then I got bored with the music I was listening to (which is never good). To remedy that situation, I put “Somebody Put Something in my Drink” by Children of Bodom on. I was immediately amazed with Alexi Laiho’s guitar playing, to the point that I had to find a transcription for the song.
About 45 minutes after I had started, my bibliography wasn’t anywhere near done, so I shut all my other programs, looked up the publishing city and copyright date for a few books, and got to work. Fifteen minutes later, I was finally done. But the bottom line is that it definitely shouldn’t have taken so long.
Hence my dedication to never slacking off again … as soon as I check my e-mail.
— Carl Zielinski