TOP 10 KEY culprits of procrastination or things you shouldn't do if you have something to actually be doing...

So I just realized that I have only posted once on this blog. I guess I can't really get rich and skip college at this pace, now can I? But, in my defense, I've thought of many interesting things to post here. I just haven't gotten around to actually physically putting them on this page. Which brings me to my main topic: procrastination. Something I'm sure many of us could win a Nobel Prize in if, you know, they gave a prize for that. Anyway, after attending a high school more rigorous than college, I've not only mastered how to ace tests without knowing the material, juggle 7 AP classes and write a gazzilion essays in one night…I've learned to be a pro procrastinator. However, it is not a task to be taken lightly. One must know when to stop (no, the "I can stop whenever I want" thing doesn't work here. I've been told that's for alcoholism). One must also know what the greatest sources of procrastination are. And thus, I proudly present my TOP 10 KEY culprits of procrastination or (to go along with the blog name) things you shouldn't do if you have something to actually be doing (like a 10 page research paper…hehehe).

1. Facebook. Obviously. We love it. We hate it. We hate to love it. And we love to hate it. You get the point. Biggest problem with Facebook? You go online to check your notifications (all 50 of them because someone tagged you in a post that someone commented on that someone liked that someone…etc etc etc). Then you feel obligated to respond to them all. Then you find someone you share common interests with. Then you find a new Facebook friend. Then….then it's 3 hours later and you've done NOTHING with your life. Good job.

2. Friends. As in real ones. The friends you've actually met in a non-creepy/shady way. You feel obligated to stay in touch because honestly, who wants to end up an old lady with 27 cats for friends. Noone, right? Especially guys because that would be sad AND disturbing. Anywho…your friends say you should hang out. So you do. Then you're tagged in a million pictures. Then you make matching profile pictures. Then you spam people's walls. Then…then you decide to skype.

3. Skype. You start off by asking how everyone is doing and before you know it, you're doing a group video call (yes, that is possible if all of you update your Skype). And you're taking weird screen shots. And whispering stuff (on a side note, if your roommate is in the room but NOT in the actual conversation, it is not wise to up the volume as high as possible to hear what your friend is whispering. They're called headphones. Use them well). Basically, Skype is bad.

4. E-mail. You e-mail your teacher or friend or boss or someone and then continue to hit the refresh button until you see the long awaited INBOX(1)! Note: the number of times you hit refresh does not correlate with the number of e-mails you will receive. Just saying.

5. Music. Here is the logical reasoning you give yourself for listening to music while you work: it keeps me alert and I'm more productive. Bonus points if the music is in a language that you don't know (say...Korean?) and you can thus claim that it's not actually distracting you. Until your curiosity gets the better of you. And you want to know what they're saying. So you find the subbed video. And you listen to more songs, now knowing what they say. And you find similar artists. And before you know it, you have an iPod filled with foreign songs, a dorm decorated with the singers' pictures and one pissed off roommate. Oops.

6. Stalking/Twitter. Basically, you decide music videos are not enough and decide to follow every celebrity you can. By the way, there's a lot of them out there. Good luck.

7. YouTube. Ha. Those "Related Videos"? Yeah, those are death. Start off watching a Wong Fu video, go on to a NigaHiga clip, then KevJumba, then….then you're watching some girl talk about hairstyles? Or better yet, watch a funny music video and end up crying over a movie scene. To sum it up, resist clicking anything on YouTube.

8. Children. As in siblings or other young children (not your own though. I hope). Of course it's not bad to give them some of your time. Until you spend 4 days straight doing nothing but playing hide-and-seek, drawing cars, racing cars, building Legos and running in circles. While your homework rots away. No, it will not actually disappear. And no, you can't use that as an excuse. That's worse than saying your dog ate it.

9. Karaoke. Remember those friends you have? And that foreign music you suddenly like? Well…now you get to combine the two! Karaoke is great except for the whole losing your voice/reasoning/time part. And of course, if you are not a native speaker of whatever language the songs are in, you must take the time to attempt to learn (or look like you learned) the song lyrics. Pretty darn impossible to accomplish this. But hey, there went another couple hours of your life.

10. Life. No, I am not saying we should all die. But living is essentially very distracting. You have to eat (or you don't have to…but then you still do). You have to sleep. Then you have to wake up. Then you have to breathe. It's so much work, no wonder we never concentrate on stuff like research papers.

And if you've reached the end of this list, you're obviously as good at concentrating on something impostant as I am. On that note, I should go work on my paper. Or at least open a word document.