I have a paper due in a little bit (before today ends), so what better thing is there to do than post to my blog, right?

I’m taking procrastination to the next level by coming to my blog to rant about the annoying things in life instead of reviewing my paper and finalizing it for submission. It’s due at midnight tonight, so I still have about an hour left.

One of the reasons writing my paper took longer than expected is because my library’s research database kept trolling me. It acted as if it contained some top-security clearance-required material and kept logging me out every ten minutes or so. If I got to add my username and password to my paper once for every time I had to log in again, my paper would probably be a page longer than it is now.

In case you’re curious, my paper is about the effects of video gaming on adolescent social development.

In other news, I tend to have a chain of procrastination, where higher degrees of procrastination become beneficial to me because I end up finishing things that I procrastinated on earlier. For example, if I did not have a paper due today, I probably would not have shoveled snow off the driveway. But, because I was procrastinating on writing a paper, I ended up shoveling the driveway.

It’s a great way to get sort-of-procrastination-worthy things done. You should try it sometime.

On a related note, as implied by me shoveling snow off the driveway, we recently got our first shovelable snowfall of the season.

Which is awful.

Because I hate snow.

Now that I’ve consumed enough time doing other less-important things, I’m going to go back to revising and submitting my paper. Only one more to go after this one, due at the end of the week, then I’m done with my first quarter of graduate school.